Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
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near Dearborn, was hit by another.
He suffered a fractured skull while
fellow passenger had leg torn off.
Denmark, had come to America in
1911, spent some time in Schenectady,
N. Y, and settled in Detroit some
fifteen years ago. He was well known
among his compatriots and a promi-
nent member of several of their Or
CARNATIONS.
Money Distributed.
The annual distribution of funds
provided by the Norwegian-Ameri
Memorial Foundation of 1914 took
place recently, and announcement is
made that 1880 Kroner-about $1,000
was distributed among As persons
who had applied for certain amounts
Of money enabling them to purchase
equipment for home-industrial ac-
tivities; artificial limbs; material for
basket weaving, etc. Individual por-
lions awarded to deserving applicants
range from about $50 to $17O. This
year there were 346 applicants.
Ahrenberg Going North.
Captain Ahrenberg who last year
made an unsuccessful attempt to fly
from Sweden to the United States, is
preparing to fly to the North Pole in
the middle of this month to meet Sir
Hubert wilkins and his Nautilus"
submarine expedition. A group of
Englishmen are financing the Ahren-
berg expedition; the pilot will be &C
companied by L. Ljunglund, radio op-
orator, and F. Malm, mechanic. All
three men have extensive experience
in flying in the Arctic regions.
Many Changes.
Information from the Foreign Office
at Copenhagen is to the effect that
Edmund Pincoffs has been appointed
Danish vice consul in Houston, Tex;
Thomas S. Braband has been sue
ceeded by v. Andersen as vice consul
at Newport News, Va; C. c. Biehl has
been appointed to succeed H. X. Guild
mann as vice consul at Galveston,
Tex, and F. w. Eansor has resigned
as vice consul at Jacksonville, Fla,
his post having temporarily been
taken over by Norwegian Vice Con-
sui Jason C.. Cutler.
Receives Stipend.
Haitian Christoffersen, M. A., Aren-
dial, Norway, has been awarded a
Rockefeller Foundation stipend to en-
able him to study the history and
philosophy of government in Paris,
Berlin, Amsterdam and the United
States. Mr.. Christoffersen who for
merly received a scholarship from Ok
ford university, England, will receive
from the Rockefeller Foundation
$4,000 per year plus all travel and
living expenses.
Changes Hands.
The Swedish weekly, Minnesota
Stats Tidning, published in St. Paul
since 1877, has been taken over by
group of Minnesota Swedes nearly all
prominently affiliated with the Luth-
eran church. At the head of the new
publishing firm is DR.. P. A. Mattson,
president of the Minnesota Lutheran
Conference. C. j. Larson, St. Paul,
for 30 years business manager of the
Stats Tidning, is one of the owners.
1t is stated in the paper that no
change in it's general policy is con-
templated.
Talcott in Greenland.
Dudley Vail Talcott, American
sculptor, is at the present time head
ing an American Greenland expedi-
ton aboard the Norwegian vessel,
'Nordkap H." of Tromsoe; the Nor
wegian DR.. Schioetz is a member of
the expedition which plans to photo
graph scenery and animals, hunt
polar bears and carry on extensive
fishing. Also, the expedition intends
to investigate several oil fields in
Greenland. With Mr.. Talcott are
three other Americans. incidentally
friends of the artist are expressing
the hope that his Greenland trip may
result in the sculptured perpetuation
of characteristic Eskimo men and
women.
He Got the Portrait.
Robert Paul Blanchat, 10-year-old
school boy in Tacoma, WASH, some
time ago wrote to King Christian OF
Denmark that he was interested in
that country because his mother had
been born there; his father is a ma