Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-24
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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part in the great exposition.
Paul JOhanSSen Dead.
Paul Johanssen, Baltimore's oldest
police court judge in point of serv-
ice, died last week at the age of 81.
He was a native of the Danish dis
trict of Sonderjylland, had come to
the United States in 1888, worked for
some time as a newspaperman, and at
one time was state liquor license COM
missioner of Maryland. For the last
thirty years he had been a police
magistrate in the largest city of the
state, and took an active part in many
other public affairs.
Wants More Opportunities.
Ansgar Soderlind of Stockholm has
arrived in this country for the pur-
pose of establishing new connections
through which increasing quantities
of Swedish butter may be offered
American importers. In line with a
policy, indicated in these columns
some time ago, Mr.. Soderlind calls at
tention to the fact that if American
consumers will not purchase Swedish
products, Swedish consumers will cur
tail their purchases of American COM
modities.
Defying Depression.
Morse Publishing Co. is the name of
a new firm which has begun publica
ton of the Morse Californian" in
Los Angeles. Frederik X. Haslund
has been appointed editor of the new
paper which will appear in tabloid
form-the first Norwegian paper in
the United States to use this formal.
In newspaper circles it is generally
said that the sponsors of the new
publication must be imbued with
plenty of Viking courage when they
dare undertake such a venture in
times like the present.
Johnny the Joker Dead.
Sweden, known as Johnny the Joker,
died last week in klamath county
Oregon, at the age of 80. For more
than fifty years he had been very
intimate friend of Indian tribes in
Oregon, and often appeared as the
vice. On several occasions Mr.. Mel
son had acted as mediator between
tribes when conflicts were brewing.
One chief said of Johnny the Joker
that 1--WE loved him as though he had
been one of our own"
Disastrous Fire.
Recently fire destroyed irrepar-
able values on a farm near Edmon-
ton, Canada, owned by Carl Jacobsen,
a grandson of Carl Jacobsen, founder
of the Carlsberg breweries in Den
mark, and collector of rare paintings,
sculptures and other objects of art.
Young Carl Jacobsen after the death
Of his father, Vagn Jacobsen, some
time ago, had a number of the family
heirlooms transferred to his Canadian
farm, and it now appears that they
were all destroyed. For two genera
lions the munificent Jacobsen family
has donated larger funds to art collec-
lions in Denmark than any other, and
much of the civic Identification of
Copenhagen is due to their intelligent
generosity.
A Protest.
Recently the immigration bureau
decided that non-citizens who apply
for a re-entry permit, must do so by
appearing in person before the near
est immigration office. Now a group
of Swedish-American organizations
have formulated protest against this
decision, maintaining that it will
cause lot of unnecessary trouble and
expense; they ask that the bureau re-
vert to its old method of granting
these permits by mail.
A Pair of Wooden Shoes.
Last summer Seren Lura, then a
recent graduate of ST. Olaf college,
Northfield, Mimi, now a member of
the faculty of Waldorf College, Forest
City, Iowa, visited the famous cottage
near Stavanger inhabited for years
by the late Arne Garborg, one of Nor
ways most popular authors. While
looking about in the cottage Mr.. Lura
found a pair of wooden shoes and an
old cap which had belonged to Gar
borg, and as he was anxious to re-
tain these literary souvenirs. he