Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-09
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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Will Visit Sweden.

Owen d. Young is to be chairman
of the American delegation of $50 or
more prominent business men who
will attend the Stockholm meeting of
the International Chamber of Com
merce in the latter part of June
Altogether, more than one thousand
delegates from "A countries will fore
gather in the Swedish capital for the
convention which will discuss finance,
trade barriers, industry and trade,
and communications and transporta-
ton. The American delegation will
leave for Sweden on June II.
Munificent Dane.
Georg (Gorm) Rasmussen, a native
of Denmark who is president of the
National Tea Company, comprising
976 stores, most of which are located
in Chicago, has donated $4,000 to
the Danish Old People Home at Nor
wood Park, Ill. The money will be
given at the rate of $4,000 per year
for a period of five years, and out of
these annual installments $4,000 will
be given to the institutions building
fund, while $4,000 goes to it's endow-
ment fund. Mr.. Rasmussen is a ma
tive of Bogense, Denmark, where he
was born 81 years ago. At the age
of II, he came to Chicago, starting
his career as a grocery clerk. He
is now the head of one of the largest
business organizations in that city;
also the owner of a castle in Den
mark and a stable of valuable race
horses over there.
Appointed to EditOrship.
DR.. H. A. Eckers who is affiliated
with the Rush Medical college in
Chicago, has been appointed an asso-
ciate editor of the journal of The
American Medical Association, in
which periodical he will have charge
of the current medical literature de-
partment. DR.. Eckers will give a
survey of the most important con-
tents of foreign medical journals
from week to week, and is considered
quite specially qualified for this task.
He is a native of Norway, and has for
number of years been prominent
in the Chicago medical world.
Portland Physician Dead.
DR.. N. C. Hansen of Portland, Me-,
died last week at the age of IS years.
He was born in Denmark, came to
Canada while still a boy, took up
ministry for some time, then left the
pulpit and studied medicine. Since
1903 he had been a practising physi-
clan in the Maine city where he is
said to have been very popular, espe-
cially among his compatriots.
Einar Hanson Killed.
Einar Hanson, Swedish motion pic
ture star. died of injuries after
mysterious automobile accident near
Santa Monica, Cal, last Friday.
Whether or not Hanson had any COM
panions with him in the car under
which he was found pinned, has not
been established at this writing, but
police authorities are inclined to
think he was driving alone, and that
the car overturned. He was born in
Stockholm in 1899, and had been in
the United States less than two years.
Recently he had worked as leading
man in a number of pictures, some
of his best known work being demon
strated in Her Big Night, 1.-THE
Lady in Ermine", "a Masked Wo-
man., "Children of Divorce, Barb
ed Wire, etc.
May Tour U. s.
Mrs. Ester Mejdell whose book of
recipes lately precipitated almost
riot in her native country of Norway
because she showed how it was pos
sible to make a meal at minimum
cost-much to the chagrin of organ
izations that claimed living expenses