Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-11-12
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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and her husband conduct, when a
special delivery letter was handed
her, announcing that she was one of
the heirs to the $3,OO0,OOO estate left
by DR.. Joseph kellogg, New York.
1t is estimated that Mrs. Petersons
share will be about $25O,OOO. The rea-
son for the bequest is not given in the
press dispatch which broadcasts this
item.
Studying I'm America.
A. V. Strem, employed by the Gen
eral Motors Corporation plant in Co
penhagen, is the recipient of an
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Foundation
stipend which enables him to study
management and national economics
at the Northwestern University, Chi
cago, where he arrived last week.
Jens Yde, also of Copenhagen, is
studying at the ! Peabody Museum,
Harvard University, and Axel Jorgens
is the third Danish stipend recipient
who has come to the United States
this fall for study purposes; he has
gone to San Francisco where he is in
teresting himself in the methods of
the Bancamerica.
American Edition.
Some time ago leading publishing
houses of the three Scandinavian
countries arranged a contest for the
purpose of awarding a prize to the
author of the best novel in each of
those countries; from among the three
thus .honOred one was to be selected
for a grand Scandinavian prize of
25, 900 Kroner. Announcement now is
made that Sigurd Christensen, Nor
wegian, who recently won the first
prize for Norway, i. e., 10000 Kroner,
has been awarded the grand prize too.
Negotiations at once were opened with
American publishers for the publica-
ton of an English translation within
the next few weeks. The title of the
winning novel is ITO Levende og en-
bod" c'Two Who Are Alive, and One
DeadO.
Didn't See Son.
Carl Victor Anderson, a native of
Jonkoping, died suddenly aboard the
Swedish steamship, "Grips no M while
he was on his way from Sweden to
this country to spend some time with
his son, Frank Anderson, Brooklyn,
N. Y, whom he had not seen for
many years. The deceased was II
years old.
DreyfuS Consul General.
For several months the post of
American consul general in Ccpen-
hagen has been vacant, but last week
President Hoover appointed Louis
Goethe Dreyfus of Santa Barbara,
Cal, to fill the post. Mr.. Dreyfus has
been in the American consular service
for more than twenty years, having
been stationed at Berlin, Callao
(Peru), Budapest, Sofia, Malaga, Pal
ermo and Dresden, and for four years
was foreign service inspector for
western Europe in which capacity he
supervised the work of all American
consular officers in that part of the
Old World.
HOmeward Bound.
DR.. E. w. Selmer, professor at the
University of Norway at Oslo, this
week returns after a two-month visit
to the United States. Together with
DR.. A. D. Seip, also of the University
of Norway, he has gathered about 800
photographic reproductions of Nor
wegian rural dialects as they are
spoken in settlements in this country
today, the assumption being that
many features of these dialects have
become extinct in Norway whereas
they have been preserved in the first,
the second, and even the third Nor
wegian generation in America. DR..
Seip remains at the University of Min
nesota as visiting professor until the
latter part of December when he, too,
will return to Norway. The phono-
graphic dialect records then will be
subjected to laboratory analysis.
Master of the Leviathan.
Captain George Fried, a native of
Sweden, has been appointed COM