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Show EXPLORERS' CLUB DROPS COOK Holda That Alleged Dltcoverer of Pole Practiced Fraud on Public. New York. The board of governora of the Kxplorera' rlub met lant Kriday In executive aeanlon and, alamllng In Hence, voted with bowed heuda, thut Dr. Frederick A. Cook will be dropped from the rolla of the club for fraudn practiced on Iff menibcra and on the public. Coming hard upon the heela nf the crtmhlng verdict laloly rendered by the I rttvernity of Copenhagen, the notion no-tion of Hie Kftplorere' club K, Iday la the renult of Independent Inveatlga Hon which In nn way touch upon the polar cnnlrovemv null tho weight ol Ita dlnapproval Ilium bvromca cumulative. cumula-tive. Preliminary to Ita vote nf cxculKlon. the honrd met to puna upon Ihe report of Ita committee thut haa bcn Inven tlgatlng the validity of Dr. Cook'a aa aerilon Hint he reached the aumiult ol Ml McKlnley. Thin committee. In concluding an exhauntlve report, recommended rec-ommended Hint "Dr. Cook'a -clulnin thut he ancended to the aummlt or Mt McKlnley In Hum be rejected by the Kxplorera' rluh aa not worthy of crc deuce." |