The Mena weekly star., 1920-02-26
DISCOVERER OF
 NORTH POLE DEAD
Admiral Robert Edwin Peary Sue run,hs to Anemia-Made Eight Trips in Effort That Finally
 Won Success.

Washington, Feb. 20.--Rear Ad- niral Robert Edwin Peary, retired, Arctic explorer and discoverer of the North Pole, died at his home here to- day from pernicious anemic, from which he had suffered for several years. He will be bui:al with full naval honors.
 Admiral Peary submitted to blood transfusion at a hospital here ten days ago. He later was removed to his home and his condition then was reported as somewhat improved. He gradually grew weaker, however The sransfusion this month was the thirty fifth to which the admiral had submit ted within two years.
 1t was on the afternoon of Septem- Der 6, 1909, that the following few words reported to the civilized world for the first time this crowning achiev- ment of three centuries of effort:
 "Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray, N. F.. September 6-To the Associated Press, New York.
 Stars and Stripes nailed to North Pole-Peary."
 Peary's actual attainment of the Pole had been just five months before. on April 6, 1909.
 When this despatch came, the world was, quite unknown to Peary, already praising Dr. Frederick A. Cook as the discoverer. Only four days previous, Dr. Cook, who was on his way back to Copenhagen on board a Danish steam CT, had telegraphed the claim that he reached the Pole on April 2l, 190S nearly year ahead of Peary.
 While Dr. Cooks claim did not go unquestioned from the first, he had for four days at least been widely ac- claimed as the discoverer of the Pole. With Peary's message there arose one of the greatest controversies of all ages over the honor of actual first dis eovery. There can be no one who has forgotten the dispute Peary's asser- tions were not seriously questioned, but among newspapers there came to be two great camps for an against Cook.
 Made Eight Trips.
 Peary with his record of seven suc- cessful trips to the Arctic, his official standing in the United States Navy and in scientific circles, easily held the commanding position in tine contro- versy
 The first step that led Peary toward the Pole was taken in Washington one day when he walked into book store to browse and picked up fugi- tive account of Greenland He became an unsuitable reader on the subject of the Arctic.
 The explorer was 52 years old when ;a July, 1908. he set out on his eighth and successful invasion of the Polar region.
 Captain Bartlett, the veteran navi- gator for Peary, shouted to Col. Roose- welt as the ship was leaving it's wharf at New York: Its the Pole or bust this time, Mir. President"
 The method of attacking the Pole was in five attachments, pushing north in the manner of telescope. At the S8th parallel Peary parted with Captain Bartlett. in charge of the 4th detachment, and he with one member of his crew and four Eskimos made the final dash. They covered the 135 miles in five days.
 A scientific and popular narrative of his success he wove into a book called ''The North Pole,' while his eth CT expeditions are described in his "Northward Over the Great Ice,' anc Nearest to the Pole"
 Peary's closing years were spent 1T well-earned rest, living for a large part of the time with his family of three wife, daughter and son--or Eagle Island. off the coast from Port land, Me. Mrs. Peary was formerly Josephine Diebitsch, of Washington D. C., marrying the explorer in 1888