Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-30
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versa. The Norwegians will visit not
only the head offices of the large
broadcasting firms, but also several
of the relay stations.
Lost Their Money.
The Denmark Savings Bank of Den
mark, Iowa, has been forced to close
it's doors, and it is stated that stock
holders and depositors-nearlya all ma
tives of the country of Denmark-will
lose all the funds they had entrusted
to the care of the bank. There is at
present only very slight hope that
the bank will resume it's business.
ats an Education"
C. G. Olson, native of Sweden and
resident of Sidney, Nebraska, is at the
present time engaged by the Russian
Soviet authorities as boss machinist
and writes to Swedish-American'
papers that while things in Russia
are entirely different from conditions
in the United States, he considers it
real education to be in Russia. He
also expresses the belief that the
newspaper press in Europe and Amer
lea is pretty biased in commenting on
social, political and economic life in
modern Russia.
Visitors from NybOrg.
Ludwig Hansen, mayor of the city of
Nyborg, Denmark, and Christian Han
sen, merchant of the same city, last
week spent a few days in the eastern
cities of the United States; when
asked about the purpose of their con-
spicuously brief visit the two gentle
men simply said: 20 well, we've
heard so much about America that
we just got a notion to run over and
take a look at it. 1t has been very
impressive, very pleasing"
Lone SurvivOr9
Magnus B. Krogh, Norwegian
American citizen of Minneapolis, pub
licly makes the claim that he is the
only survivor of the Lost Battalion
which fought the Germans at Ravine
de Charlevaux on October 2, 1918; he
says that it has been impossible to
obtain proof to the effect that other
members of that battalion of the
American Expeditionary Forces are
still alive, and for that reason he be-
lieves, he is the only one who escaped
from the fight.
Hjalmar Nilsson Retires.
Hialmar Nilsson, for % years state
oil inspector of Minnesota, has re-
tired from that office because of old
age. While he has become widely
known throughout the country because
of several reforms he has success
fully introduced in connection with
the taxation of gasoline, he is still
better known as an active member OF
Swedish singing societies. Mr.. Mis-
son, a native of Sweden, began his
American career as a newspaperman
in Worcester, Mass, and also has been
the editor of the Swedish-American
"Musiktidning' emusic News'O.
New Vulcanizing Method.
Knute Odegaard who came to San
Francisco from Col, Hallingdal, Nor
way, three years ago has obtained
the protection of American patent
TlSULS lUT LIE liIF0HLlOH VI d hC"
method for vulcanizing automobile
tires. He says, in discussing his in
vention, that-"it really isn't vul-
canizing as generally understood but
it's something that has the same eff
feet and is more efficacious, less ex-
pensive than the old methods"
Plan Abandoned.
Lieutenant Clausson-Kaas of Den
mark who has spent some time fly
ing in the United States, announces
from Copenhagen that he has aban-
doned the plan of purchasing the Hill
lig-Hoiriis airplane which recently
completed a flight from the United
States to Denmark; the reason was
that he considered the machine unfit
for flight from Europe to America.
A couple Of days later it was an
nounced that the airplane had been
sold to a woman aviator who intends
to fly it from New York to Rome.