Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-04-07
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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the decision not to participate, but
there have been rumors that the eco
nomic crisis as well as dissensions
among the athletic organizations of
Norway have something to do with it.
Deep-Sea Diver Dead.
Jacob Alfred Pahlberg, 81, retired
deep-sea diver, died last week at his
home in New London, Conn. He was
to this country at the age of "a. From
the spring of 1873 until two years
ago he followed his hazardous trade
in the uninterrupted service of the
company which originally employed
him-that is, for period of 81 years.
Twenty-Five Years.
Last week the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the founding of the Swedish
Chamber of Commerce of U. S. was
celebrated at banquet aboard the
Swedish steamer, "Kungsholm," in
the harbor of New York. In connec-
ton with the anniversary the cham
Der has issued a book tracing it's his
tory and publishing figures on trade
between the United States and Swe-
den since 1907; in the volume is con-
tanned an article written by Ivar
Kreuger, the Swedish international
match king, who committed suicide in
Paris three weeks ago; he was one of
the directors of the chamber.
Propaganda.
A leading mercantile house of Co
in it's circulars to custom
erS, writes as follows: Danish pros
perity is contingent upon our exports.
Buy from the country that buys from
Denmark. Buy in the United States
only what you cannot get elsewhere;
the United States buys almost nothing
from Denmark, and our exporters find
their American market closed due to
the eXorbitant duties levied on our
products. England buys from Den
mark; it is only fair that Danes adopt
the English slogan: Buy Britishr"
Viking Ethics.
Professor Sigurd Nordal, Norwe-
gian professor at the University of
Iceland, formerly at the University of
Oslo, has completed a series of lee
lures at Harvard University, Cam
bridge, Mass, on Icelandic social life
and manners. Last week Professor
Nordal addressed the Chicago Norwe-
gian club on the subject of Viking
Ethics" He has been invited to lee
ture at several middle-west and Paci-
fic coast universities before he re-
turns to Reykjavik.
Wants to Go Home.
Some time ago rumOrs to the effect
that Greta Carlo, Swedish screen
actress-and probably the most fam
GUS of them all-was planning to go
back to Sweden, met with a denial,
coupled with the announcement that
her salary had been substantially in
creased. Now word comes from Hol-
lywoOd that Miss Carlo is planning
to go, anyhow. Her present contract
expires on June 1, and to date she
has refused to renew it. la Carlo"
is said to feel that she has attained
all the fame and wealth she cares to
have, and, furthermore, she is not
particularly fond of Hollywood life.
81 have plenty of money to enable me
to live without worry in my old coun-
try" she is reported to have said re-
Gently.
Ejler S9renSen I'm u. s.
Rev. Ejler Sorensen of Esbjerg, has
arrived in this country as chief dele
gate of the Methodist church of Den
mark to the general Methodist con-
ventiOn in Atlantic City, N. j., next
month. Mr.. Sorensen is the editor of
the "Kristelig Talsmand" ("Christian
Spokesman'O of his country and has
long been prominent in the Methodist
church of Scandinavia. Last Sunday
he visited Chicago where he preached
in the First Emmanuel churchill is
probable that the affairs of the for
mer Danish Bishop Anton Bast will
be finally disposed of at the Atlantic
City meeting, especially in view of
recent announcement in which he
said that he was resigning as a men,