Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-02-11
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Worm-Mueller, professor at the
University of Oslo, Norway,
will leave for the United States
having been invited by the
Rockefeller Institute to spend
three months in the United
States for the purpose of gather
ing material which will throw
additional light on the history
of transatlantic shipping
To Sing i'm Opera.
Lauritz Melchior, a Danish
tenor singer, who recently was
acclaimed by the highly critical
audience gathering in the Covent
Garden Opera, London, has ar
rived in the United States to full
fill an engagement with the Met
ropolitan Opera, New York,
where he will sing for the first
time February II. Mr.. Mel
chior has a five-year contract
with the Metropolitan, and will
become its leading singer of
Wagnerian parts. During the
present season he will sing
twelve times.
Envoy Arrives.
Wollmar Flip Bostr9m, the
new Swedish minister to the
United States, arrived in Wash
ington last week. He has been
in the diplomatic service of his
country for several years, having
been stationed at Paris, London
and Madrid. Mr.. Bostrom had
never before visited the United
States. He succeeds Capt. Axel
F. Wallenberg who for some
years had been his country's Of
fetal representative at the feder-
al capitol.
Not Danish Noble.
E. Baumann, Danish consul in
Chicago, is investigating the ma
tionalty of George ('Dutch")
Anderson who was killed in a
gun fight with a policeman at
Muskegon, Mich, last fall. There
had been rumors that Anderson
was a member of Danish noble
family, but the consul placed
little credence in the report. He
is, however, trying to find out
whether or not Anderson was of
Danish descent, In the mean
time, Anderson's body is being
held in a receiving vault in the
Michigan city.
Albert .BrOdeen Dead.
Albert Brodeen, considered the
foremost iron expert of Swedish
birth in this country, died re-
Gently at Temple, Penn. He was
Born in Sweden in 1852, came to
the United States in 1873, then
spent many years in his home
country, and in 1914 was sent to
the United States as the Ameri-
can representative of the leading
Swedish iron works. Mr., Bro
deem was said to have done more
to promote the iron trade be-
tween the United States and
Sweden than any other man.
Gives Bible.
A Danish bible, sent by Bishop
Ostenfeldt of Copenhagen, in be-
half of the Church and Bible So
ciety of Denmark, was presented
last week to Bishop William T.
Manning, by Prince Aage and
Princess Viggo of Denmark at a
reception in the home of Miss
Sarah Cooper Hewitt, New York.
The bible, intended for the Ca
thedral of ST. John the Divine
is the second of ten foreign
gifts coming to the cathedral.
In accepting the gift Bishop
Manning thanked the royal dele
gates for this token of fellow
ship.
Oslo Borrows.
The municipality Of Oslo, Nor
way, last week borrowed four
million dollars through the house
of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York.
1t is understood that this is a
forerunner of several loans that
Oslo intends to make in Ameri-
can banking circles during the
year, as it was recently estima-
ted that it would be necessary to
float loans amounting to ap-
proximately 100 million kroner.
Some of the loans, it is hoped,
will be subscribed in. Norway.
Sea Captain browns.
Hjert Ingemaarsen, formerly
commander Of Norwegian boats.