Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-12-05
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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ish Masonic excursion will leave New
York for Copenhagen early this month
so as to make it possible for the tour
lists to spend Christmas in Denmark
Has Morse Crew.
The private yacht, "Hi-E m ro" !,
owned by John Manville,< left New
York for European ports a few days
ago. 1t carries crew of 40 men
among whom 81 are Norwegians. Mr..
Manville-whose daughter is married
to the Swedish Prince Bernado to-
is planning to visit the S anGinayian
countries and will also go to various
ports in the southern part of Europe
Swedish Glassware PleaseS.
At an international eXro ition of
glassware held in New York the
Swedish collection has attracted a
quite unusual and very flattering at
tention, according to trade papers
which claim that the specimens sent
here from Sweden are superior to all
others shown because of the perfect
craftsmanship and artistic taste il
Illustrated in the individual designs.
Thousands of persons visit the Swed-
ish exhibit every day, reports from
the east indicate.
Sigvart SorenSen Dead.
Sigvart Sorensen, editor emeritus of
the Norwegian Minneapolis Tidende,
died last week at his home in Califor-
MIA. He was born in Oslo, Norway,
in 1919, and when he celebrated his
ago, attention was called to the fact
that he had been an active newspar er-
man for a longer period of years tn n
any other Scandinavian journalist in
the United States and Canada. Mr..
Sorensen had come to this country in
1868, and five years later started the
publication of literary monthly,
Norsk Maanedsskrift, in La Crosse,
Wis. He became editor-in-chief of
the Minneapolis Tidende in 1891, re-
firing as such few years ago.
Danes Preferred.
The Canadian Pacific Railway an
nounces that it plans to spend so
Million dollars during the next few
years for the purpose of effecting
number of colonization projects, and
a statement released through the
Manitoba Free Press of Winnipeg
says that Danish immigrants will be
preferred to others in connection with
these plans. In that paper the state
ment is made that Danish women
and men are the most desirable i'm
migrants as far as the British Do
minion is concerned.
Big Concerts Planned.
The Swedish choral societies of
Stockholm and other cities are Ian
ming to give a series of concerts on
june Il, 13, II and Is, next year, and
it is expected that large delega ion
of Swedish-American singers viii par
ticipate. Altogether, more than 5000
voices will be heard at the principal
concert of the series, and it is saiC
that mere than 500 of Il e sineefs arc
likely to be Swedish-A mericans.
Makes Confession.
The police authorities of Copen
hagen, Denmark, are invC stigating a.
alleged confession made by AXel Jen-
sen who claims that he threw the
bomb which caused the widely dis
cussel Wall street explosion nine
years ago. Jensen says that he re-
ceived S40O for perpetrating the crime,
and that he fled to Texas shortly
after, arriving in Denmark three
years ago. The authorities are no
certain whether the confession is
genuine or not Thirty-seven rsC rs
were killed by the explosion, and hun
dreds of others were more or less
severity injured.
No Passports.
An official announcement made in