Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-07-24
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girl. She will be in our country soon.
Let's hope she'll marry and stay here.
we need such girls-and more good
Danish blood"
The New Minister.
Hoffman Philip, appointed by Presi-
dent Hoover to the post of American
minister in Oslo in place of LauritZ
Swenson, has been in the diplomatic
service since 1908: he has served in
American legations in Abyssinia, Rio
di Janeiro, Constantinople, Paris and
elsewhere, and has also been head of
the Orient division of the Department
of State in Washington. Mr. Philip
is native of Washington. D. c.. and
a graduate of the Columbia University
Law school. His new appointment
will take him to a Scandinavian coun-
try for the first time in his life.
To Settle i'm Paris.
DR.. Sven Windrow (Vindrufva) of
Chicago, left last week for Paris,
where he will make his home with his
son, Stellan Windrow, one of the
movie" magnates of France. DIR.
Windrow who was born in Stockholm
II years ago, received his medical ed
ucation at Swedish universities, and
had practiced medicine in his native
country for some time when he was
appointed a ships physician in the
service of the Hamburg-American
line. Since 1888 DR.. Windrow had
been a resident of Chicago where he
was widely known.
DIR. HIATT Coming.
Announcement is made that DR..
Gudmand HIATT has been elected Of
fetal delegate or the Copenhagen Uni
yersity TO the Americanist congress
in New York in September. This
gathering which takes place annually,
attracts savants from many countries
especially those whose research
work has an American angle. DR..
HIATT has for many years been inter-
ested in prehistoric America and has
written extensively upon subjects of
this character.
Neumann to Russia.
A. B. Neuman, Chicago, left a few
days ago for Berlin, Germany, whence
he will proceed to Tomsk, Russian
Siberia, where he is to supervise the
construction of an immense steel and
iron plant for the account of the So
Wet government Mr. Neumann is
Norwegian who has long been promi-
nent in American engineering circles;
he received his technical training in
his home country and came to the
United States about fifteen years ago;
he has been in charge of several
large engineering jobs in New York,
Pittsburg and Chicago. and now ex-
poets to remain in Tomsk until some
time in 1898.
Unemployed Swedes.
From most of the industrial ~centers
in the United States and Canada re-
ports are received of extensive unem-
ployment, and the crisis has affected
Scandinavians as well as many others.
In Winnipeg last week an Association
of Swedish Unemployed" was formed.
and as the members are immigrants,
that is, not yet Canadian citizens, eff
forts have been made to interest their
home government in their plight. The
Foreign Office in Stockholm has, how
ever, notified its consuls in Canada
that no funds for the purpose stated
are available Contributions for the
relief of the unemployed are now be-
ing solicited among the more prosper
Gus Winnipeg Swedes.
Insufficient Funds.
'Dansk Canadisk Tidende" C'Dan-
ish-Canadian Times), a Danish week
ly published during the last year at
Toronto, Ont, has suspended publ
cation owing, it is said, to an insult
ticiency of funds. Another recently
started Danish publication in Chicago
likewise has been forced to suspend.
II is a generally recognized fact that
times are not propitious for the start
ing of small publications on the
American continent-especially not
when they are issued in a non-Eng-
lish language; even some of the older
papers of this kind lead rather pre-
carious existence.
Schedule Changed.
In a former issue il was announced
that the broadcasting of a part of the
jubilee festivities in Nidaros Norway,
would take place at IL O'Clock in this