Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-01-28
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

North.
The American itinerary of
Crown Prince Adolf and Crown
Princess Louise of Sweden has
now been outlined, and, accord
ing to this, the future king and
queen of their country will ar
rive in New York, May 81, at
tend the John Ericsson Memoir
ial unwilling in Washington,
make an auto trip through New
England; then will proceed to
Chicago, and on June "a will par
ticipate in Swedish American
midsummer festivities in Mime
apolis and st. Paul. During the
following five weeks they will
tour the west, and July % in
tend to depart from San Fran
cisco for Japan, China and India.
A Bill in the Storting.
The government of Norway
has caused bill to be introduced
in the Storting prescribing heavy
penalties for those who are con-
victed of smuggling liquor under
the Norwegian flag. or with the
consent of Norwegian ship
owners, into the United States.
The bill action upon which has
not yet been taken-is result
of the agreement between the
United States and Norway, by
which American authorities pos
sess the right to arrest Norwe-
gian liquor smugglers beyond the
three-mile limit.
Obtains Credit.
i. The Bankers Trust Co., in con-
junction with the Chase Nation
al Bank of New York, has ex-
tended one-year revolving
credit of 100000 to the Nat
ional Bank of Denmark. The
purpose of the credit is to fur
nish the Danish bank foreign bal
ances sufficient to insure success
of the exchange Sterilization
program in which National bank
en- is cooperating with the gov
eminent. The announcement of
5 the credit advanced the Danish
Krone 81 points.
King HOnors Him.
Charles E. Mitchell, president
of the National City bank of
New York, was recently pre-
sented with the insignia of the
Royal order of the North Star,
by Capt. Axel F. Wa1!enberg,
minister of Sweden to the United
States, who acted as a personal
representative of the king OF
Sweden. The honor was given
in recognition of the services OF
the banker in promoting closer
relations between the two ceun-
tries.
Prince to Belgrade?
A cabled rumer intimates that
DR.. John Dyneley Prince, for
several years United States min
lister to Denmark, may be trans
ferred to Belgrade, the capital Of
Jugo-Slavia, in the near future
DIR. Prince who is said to be the
most popular American diplomat
ever assigned to the post in Den
mark, has been minister to that
country for several years. No
confirmation of the rumor has
come from Washington.
Lindiagen and Ford.
Carl Lindhagen, the Socialistic
lord mayor of Stockholm, who
visited the United States last fall
as a delegate to the Interpar-
iamentary congress in Washing
ton, also found time to pay visit
to the plants of Henry Ford in
Detroit, Mich, and now-has pub
lished-in Swedish newspapers
his impressions of Ford and his
factories. Mr.. Lindhagen seems
to think that the American man
ufacturer has found the ideal so
luton to all the principal labor
problems with which the rest
of the world is dealing, but sew
eral of the prominent men of his
own party dissent strongly from
him.
A Recognition.
When Roald Amundsen, famous
Norwegian polar explorer and
discoverer of the South Pole, the
other day was at Leavenworth,
Kansas, he spent some time with
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, serving a
sentence there for FRAUDULENT oil
transactions. Afterward Mr..