Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-05-12
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Announcement is made that prepa-
rations have now been begun for the
next Lutheran World Convention
which will be held in Copenhagen,
Denmark, in 1929. The initiative is
primarily American, and the largest
delegations attending are expected to
be those from the United States. The
official languages of the convention
will be English and German, and
Americans and Germans are expected
to be in practical charge of the gath
ering which is a sequel to the con-
vention held in Eisenach, Germany,
in 1923. 1t is planned to have the
convention, following that of Copen-
hagen, held somewhere in the United
States, probably in 1888 or 1895.
Boycott Threat.
Norwegian labor. unions have hand
ed-through the United States lega-
ton at Oslo-a formal protest against
the contemplated execution of Nicola
Sacco and Bartholomew Vanzetti in
Massachusetts, convinced, as these
Norwegians are, that the two Italians
have been convicted rather for their
radical views than for their partici-
patton in a murder. The labor unions
also declare that in the event of the
executions being carried out, they
will declare boycott against imports
of American products of all kinds, and
their members will Internationally
refuse to handle any import articles
from the United States
Rates Modified.
The Swedish parliament has passed
a bill modifying the rates in the GUS
toms duties on automobile parts, re-
ducing the duty from 13 to IL per cent.
This was done in response to repeat
eddy expressed American desires, and
the first result of the decision is an
announcement to the effect that the
largest automobile manufacturing
concern of the United States has
signed a 49-year lease with the city
of Stockholm for building site on
which factory will be established
some time this year.
His "Saga".
In November of last year attention
was here called to the fact that Carl
Christian Jensen, a native of Den
mark, had begun serial publication
of his "reminiscences in "the Atlantic
Monthly The series having been
completed in this form, the work is
now issued as book under the title
of "An American Saga, and it is
attracting quite unusual attention in
the literary reviews. AS a general
thing it is being praised for its char
acteristic style as we'll as for its
unique contents, but some critics,
like Van Doren in 1.-The Nation''-ad-
nit that only the earlier part of the
book, that which deals with the au-
thor's experiences in Denmark and as
a sailor prior to his coming to Amer
lea, are really worth reading The
rest-which is largely a description
of the manner of his having become
gradually Americanized-is denounc-
ed as rather ordinary. From this
view, of course, the majority among
the critics differ.
Next Oh the List.
On May 20, New York publishing
house will issue in one volume an
American translation of o. e. Rol-
vaag's two orwegian-American books
Il de Dage" ("During Those Days")
and "Riket grundlagges" C''The
ne >i,.a, hn inin MT
title of Giants of the Earth" Mr..
Rolvaag, a native of Norway, is head
of the Morse department of st. Olaf
College, Northfield, Mimi, and has
written a number of earlier books.
Gloria's Uncle Dead.
Charles w. Swenson, Swede by
birth, and uncle of Gloria Swanson,
film star, was burned to death in his
apartment in New York last week.
The policemen, fighting through
debris, found Swenson's body, with
arms outstretched pointing to por-
traits of Gloria which he had tried
to save. Swenson is described as an
idealistic painter, and his famous
niece often called upon him when she
visited New York. Before she went in
to the movies, her name, too, was
SwenSOn.
Fossil Plants Donated.
The Botanical Gardens of New
York have received as a donation
from Professor Rudolf Florin of
Stockholm, Sweden, valuable col
lection of some fifty fossil plants,
gathered by the donor in Brazil, the
Antarctics, Spitzbergen, England,
Austria, Bavaria and the Scandina-
Wan countries. In appreciation OF
the courtesy the New York museum
has presented the National Museum
of Stockholm with gift of lignites
and Ignite fossils, discovered at
Kreischerville, Staten Island, N. Y.
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