Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-07-25
NEWS AMONG
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week for the purpose of studying
American prison methods; he will
spend a part of his time in this coun-
try at the Sing Sing penitentiary-
DR.. Amos Squire, former chief sur
geon of Sing Sing. has left for Den
mark where he WIN attend the Medic
Legal conference in Copenhagen, upon
which he intends to make a tour of
the penal institutions in Denmark and
the other Scandinavian countries.
Treaty Registered.
An arbitration treaty between the
United States and Norway was regis
tered with the League of Nations at
Geneva, Switzerland, last week. Nor
way is one of the sixteen states which
have bound themselves under the OPP
tiOnal clause of the World Court sta
tutes to submit all international dis
putes of a judicial nature to the de-
cisiOn of that tribunal.
Trip Cancelled.
For long time the Young Peoples
League of the Swedish GOodtemplar
order has been planning a tour of the
United States, and has been saving
funds for such a purpose. All finan-
cial arrangements had been made,
and the board of officers was just on
the verge of preparing an itinerary
when some difficulty came up-it is
not stated what it was-resulting i'm
a decision to the effect that all plans
for the trip to America be forthwith
Cancelled. 1t was so done.
Sindballe Quits.
Professor Kristian Sindballe of the
University of Denmark, has resigned
as chairman of the American-Mexican
Mixed Claims committee, his reason
being that duties in Denmark make
it imperative for him to return to
Copenhagen Professor Sindballe who
is recognized as one of the great au-
thorities in the field of international
law, has handled cases involving mil
lions of dollars, while presiding over
the commission which consists of
three members. The second member
of that body is also a native of Den
mark, namely, Fred Kenelm Nielsen,
former solicitor i'm the United States
department of state, and author of
most of the international treaties
which the American government in
recent years has concluded.
DIR. Stub Ill.
DR.. Hans Gerhard Stub, president
emeritus of the Norwegian Lutheran
Church of America, has contracted
serious case of pleurisy which had
its inception when he attended the
Lutheran world congress in Copen-
hagen short time ago. The vener-
able churchman is now in Oslo, where
energetic efforts are being made to
speed his recovery. DR.. Stub, now
past 80, has his home in st. Paul.
X. A. HjOrth Here.
DR.. X. A. Hjorth of GOthenburg,
was visitor in Minneapolis last week
in his capacity of general secretary
of the Society for the Preservation
of Swedish Culture Abroad. DR..
Hjorth has made an extended trip
through Swedish settlements in the
United States and Canada in order to
study conditions existing among his
cOuntrymen, and will file report
which is to be published later this
year. He has also made an effort
to interest Swedish-Americans in the
Foreign-Swedish museum at Gothen-
burg, which collects mementoes of
Swedish activities abroad.
Plans to Stay.
Olaf Linck, the Danish author and
newspaperman who again is visiting
in this country, and who spent last
week in the Twin Cities, has inter-
viewed COnstantin Brun, Danish min
lister to the United States for about 80
years with the exception of brief
period when he was his country's en-
vOy to the court of st. James, LOndon)
and ELECTED the Information that when
the diplomat retires under the age
limit regulation, he intends to make
his home in this country for the sim
pie reason, as he says, that he "en-
joys being here"
Otto Kahn i'm Norway.
Otto H. Kahn, one of the most
widely known high-finance men of
Wall Street, New York, has arrived
in Oslo aboard his yacht, albion"
The yacht which has a crew of 48
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