Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

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Fred Kenelm Nielsen, former
solicitor of the United States
state department, has been . p-
pointed a member of the general
claims commission of this country
and Mexico. Mr.. Nielsen, who
was born in Denmark in 1879, has
been attached to the state de-
partment for more than twenty
years, and during that time
drafted practically all American
conventions and treaties with for
eign countries. He has also been
a member of numerous interna-
tional commissions, including that
appointed several years ago to
arbitrate American and British
claims. In the general claims
commission Mr.. Nielsen succeeds
Judge Edwin B. Parker.
Amundsen's Vacation.
Capt. Roald Amundsen, who re-
Gently flew across the North Pole
aboard his airship, Norge, is
expected to return to the United
States in October for a vacation
which he plans to spend in the
Grand Canyon with his friend
and financial hacker, Lincoln Ellis
worth. of New York. 1t is I'M
likely that Mr.. Amundsen will
deliver any lectures during his
coming visit, as he has announced
that he does not want to appear
before the public again, and also
that Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, pilot
of the Norge, will tour this
country giving lectures about the
expedition.
New Steamship Line.
Sandstrgm Shipping Co. of
Gothenburg, Sweden, this month
will open freight line between
Gothenburg, New York and Bra
lillian ports. Negotiations which
have been in progress for some
time have now resulted in a
definite announcement to that eff
feet, Offices have been opened in
New York, and boats chartered
for the business of the new con-
Germ. The first vessel to leave
New York under the Sandstrom
flag departs in the latter part of
the month.
Denmark BOrrOws.
A Copenhagen telegram an
nounces that the government of
Denmark has come to the aid of
the farmers in that country by
guaranteeing Is million Kroner
loan obtained through the Guar
anty Trust Company of New
York. The loan is to be used
largely for the purpose of stabil-
ling the Danish export of farm
ing products.
Many Seeking Jobs.
Norwegian newspapers in New
York call attention to the fact
that an unusually large number
of young women have recently
arrived from Norway for the
purpose of seeking employment
as domestics in eastern homes.
Many of them, the papers say,
are practically stranded in the
metropolis, having no friends, no
money, and very little if any
knowledge of the English Ian
guage. To aid these women one
of the newspapers proposes that
Norwegian associations in Greater
New York form an organization
to protect the girls, and it is sug-
gested, especially, that Nord-
mandsforbundet as well as Sons
and Daughters of Norway inter-
est themselves in this task.
Single-Tax Champion.
Mrs. P. de Mile, daughter
of Henry George, recently visited
Denmark as one OF the. delegates
to the international congress on
single tax held in Copenhagen.
Mrs. de Mile is an enthusiastic
adherent to the theories which
her famous father enunciated in
series of works on social economy,
and believes that the day is not
distant when the single-tax plan
will be found practical in most
of the countries of the earth. She
is a sister-in-law of Cecil B. de
Mile, and has her home in Hol-
lywood, CAL, but insists in inter-
views with Danish newspapermen
that she has nothing whatever
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