Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-07-07

, the liner, "Stavangerfjord," an anus
| ing incident occurred. A Norwegian
American had gone aboard the vessel
to bid adieu to departing friend,
and failed to hear the final signal
| for departure; he then concluded that
he might be set ashore at the time
when the pilot left the ship off Sandy
Hook, but it so happened that the
pilot on this trip, Jon Petersen, re-
NAMED aboard as he intended to visit
Norway, his native country, for the
first time in fifty years. The result
was that the forgetful passenger
name mercifully not given!-had to
work his way across the sea, both
ways, that is, to Oslo and then back
to New York.
American Edition Coming.
Mis- Petersen, Danish author, has
sold the American publishing rights
for his book, "Sandalmagernes Gade"
(The Street of the Sandal Makers")
to the Macmillan Co., New York; the
book will also be published in Lon
don in special English version. Mis-
Petersen's novel, published a few
months ago, deals with episodes of
ancient Roman life and has attained
success of such phenomenal dimen-
sions that it is characterized as I'M
precedented in the annals of Danish
literature.
Raid ArOuses ChicagOans.
Members of the Swedish Club of
Chicago are incensed because their
club house was raided by Deputy Pro-
hibition Administrator A. E. Anon;
for the first time in many years the
doors of the famous club were locked,
and violent objections are being of
fered on the ground that the liquor
allegedly discovered by the raiders
was the property of individual own
ers of lockers in the club building.
George E. @. Johnson, district attor-
ney, himself Swede and a member
of the club, will receive a report from
Mr.. Anon.
American Aid Alleged.
In the course of an investigation
of communistic affairs in Norway,
published charges have been made to
the effect that organized communists
in that country have been receiving
generous financial aid from American
that the rumor has tinge of hostile
propaganda and cannot be relied upon.
Inquiries at communistic headQuar-
ters in this country met with a defin-
tie refusal to discuss the matter on
the ground that it was ito absurd
for comments" Foreign affiliations
of Norwegian communists have hith-
erto been supposed to be Russian, not
American.
"Like a Nobody"
Mrs. Marie Sorensen, 81, has just
returned to her home in Frederiks-
borg, Denmark, from a 1O-month visit
with her children in the United
States. Interviewed by a local re-
porter, Mrs. Sorensen said that her
American excursion was interesting
enough" but that she "sat like a
nobody" when her children and grand
children were chatting, because she
could not understand English. She
\ was HCNCi happy Jul Ing LCl AiuCi iSdu
sojourn, Mrs. Sorensen said-except
when she attended services in the
Danish church, and she concluded
that America was no place for peo-
pie who had grown old in another
country.
| Mathematician Dead.
Professor Thomas Hakon Gronwall,
mathematician of international reput-
alton, died last week in New York.
He was born in Axberg parish, Swe-
den, in 1877, studied in Sweden as
we'll as in Germany; was for several
years assistant professor of mathe-
MATES at Princeton University, and
also mathematical expert for the U.
S. artillery service in Washington.
Since 1927 Professor Gronwal was
consultant expert mathematician for
the Columbia University institute of