Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-05-19
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Announcements have been made by
tion in New York that a group of
Norwegians have received stipends to
enable them to go to the United States
for -one years study i'm the fields of
dentistry, psychological research, for
estry, engineering, manufacturing,
and business management. A cor
responding group of Americans have
received scholarships to aid them in
studying in Norway. Similar an
nouncements have been made con-
corning student exchange between the
United States and Denmark and the
United States and Sweden.
Hollywood News.
Robert A. OLSON, Swede who has
attained a good deal of fame as a,
film director at Hollywood, CAL, has
been appointed director in charge of
series of colored films that will be
presented to the public during the
coming season. Anders Holm, also
a Swedish film manager who but re-,
Gently came to Hollywood, has been
engaged by large Canadian movie
concern, and will direct group of
pictures dealing with the life of
pioneer times in the British Domin-
ion.
..../. Soil Study.
At the international conference for
sell study to be- held at Washington,
d. c., June 1872, Denmark will be
represented by Professor FIR. Weis,
representing the Danish department
of agriculture; Tovborg Jensen of the
plant laboratory at Lyngby Oear
Copenhagen; DR.. Jakob Baden-at
present sojourning in this country
and, representing the ministry of edu-
cation, DR.. Victor Madsen. At the
conclusion of the conference the Da-
nish delegates are planning to make
a tour of the country.
Mail That Vanishes.
For several months the postal au
thorities of Norway have, been at
tempting to detect thieves who sys-
tematically have rifled letters COM
ing from America for the purpose of
finding money in the. envelopes:
Thousands of letters from Norwegians
in the United States to their relatives
and friends in the home country have
vanished in this way, even when they
did not contain money, for as soon las
the thieves realized that there was
no money within, they destroyed the
letters. Efforts are now concentrat-
ing about group Of postal clerks
at Mandal, Norway, but the investiga-
ton has not given definite results at
this writing. ..... .....-,..... e..
Their Homecoming.
A large number of missionaries
from the Chinese field-whither they
were sent by the Swedish Lutheran
Augustana Synod of this country
have returned here unframed, and
last week banquet was given in
their honor in one of the Swedish
Minneapolis churches. All the mis-
sionaries who spoke during the eve
ming, had narrowing tales to relate,
and even though they escaped un-
harmed, they lost in nearly every in
stance everything they owned. Most
of them believe, however, that the
day will come when it will be pos
sib1e to resume work in the mission
fields in China, and are looking for
ward to that time with fortitude.
Riis Remembered.
The seventy-eighth anniversary of
the birth of Jacob A. Riis-at Ribe,
Denmark-was celebrated last week
by several hundred children of the
lower east side, New York, at the
Jacob A. Riis Settlement house in
Henry Street Many members of the
settlements board, including Mr.. Riis'
widow and son, Roger Riis, attended.
Mr.. Riis who died in 1914, founded
the settlement that bears his name,
i'm 1890. 1t was the first institution
of it's kind in New York City.
Verdict Sustained.
Nicholas Lorenzen, Norwegian me-
chanic one year ago was run over by
a railroad train on one of the steam
ship docks in Brooklyn, NJ Y, with
the result that one of his arms and
one of his legs had to be amputated.
He sued the New York Dock Railway
for damages to the extent of SOS, 600,
which was awarded him by the jury,
but the defendant company thought
the amount excessive and appealed.
The court of appellates in Albany now
has returned the papers in the>case,
with the notation: 1--WE see no reason
to disturb the verdict, so Mr.. Loren
zen will get his $4,000.
John BrOlin Dead.
John Brolin widely known painter
and interior decorator, died last week
in New York, so years old. He was
born in Stockholm, Sweden, and stu
died painting in his native country
for a. numbersof years before leaving
for the United States. Mr.. Broiin's
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