Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-04
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

North.
AS an indirect result of the
revived interest in the dramas
written by Henrik Ibsen, Nor
wegian playwright, the Actors
Theatre in New York has taken
the initiative in a campaign that
has for its object the erection of
an Ibsen monument or memorial
somewhere in Greater New York.
It is roughly calculated that the
cost will amount to about $780,
600. According to present ten
tative plans, the monument is to
be unveiled March 20, 1928 the
one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of the famous writer.
Millions Involved.
A New York consortium is
about to conclude negotiations
with the Swedish firm which
holds the patent rights for Won
Platen's and hunters refriger-
ator, and it is said that the Of
fer, advanced from American in
terests, involves so many millions
of dollars that the transaction is
characterized as the largest of it's
kind ever contaminated. Back
of the consortium in New York
Elektrolux Co., being one of the
parties interested-is an avail
able capital said to amount to
$2O,0O0,O00.
Correspondence Friendship.
DR.. Sven V. Knudsen, until two
years ago leading Boy Scout
leader in Denmark, now a mem
Der of the faculty of Antioch
College, Antioch, O., suggests in
the magazine, The Open Road,
that American schoolboys enter
into correspondence with school
boys in other countries. DIR.
Knudsen thinks that in this way
much can be done to promote the
spirit of international fellowship
and brotherhood. While in Den
mark he was instrumental in
bringing about such an exchange.
of letters between boys IN the
three Scandinavian countries.
On Visit i'm e. S.
" Rev C.. H. Gjelseth, formerly
pastor of Norwegian Lutheran
congregations in Nelson, Wis,
and in Chicago, now a teacher at
the bible schol which the Nor
wegian Inner Mission society
maintains at Oslo, is at present
in the United States for the pur-
pose of studying bible school
work. While sojourning here,
Mr.. Nelson is lecturing to Nor
wegian congregations in various
parts of the country, describing
especially the bible study meth
DDS now in use in Norway.
Sells a Rembrandt.
Hans Wachtmeister in Stock
holm, Sweden, recently sold to a
New York art dealer Rem
brandt's Portrait of Young
Man" for the sum of $21O,OOO.
Many efforts were made to per-
suade Mr.. Wachtmeister to keep
the Rembrandt in Sweden, but in
vain, and the famous canvas is
now on its way to New York
where it will be offered for sale.
The former owner of the valuable
portrait was at one time sta
toned at the Swedish legation In
Washington.
ID. nj. Frederiksen Dead.
Eastern newspapers carry the
information that Ditlev M. Fred
eriksen at Little Falls, N. Y,
died last week, aged 70 years.
He was born on the island of Lol-
land, Denmark, studied agricul-
ture in that country, and came in
1877 to the United States as the
general representative of Chr.
Hansen's Laboratorium, manu-
facturers of various cultures used
in the production of butter and
cheese. He later established
branch factory of the Danish
plant. Mr.. Frederiksen was
widely known not only as man.
ufacturer, but also as a writer
and speaker on dairy and other
subjects; he had been an officer
of various state organizations
within his field, and four years
ago was made a knight of the
Dannebrog order. .
Gets Commission.
Magnus Urdahl, young Nor
wegian sculptor who has studied
for some time at the art museum
of Boston, recently received a