Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-07-28
NEWS AMONG SCANDINAVIANS

For broadcasting bulletins Of the
progress of his projected airplane trip
from New York to Oslo, Norway, Thor
Solberg, Brooklyn aviator and store
keeper, has engaged his fellow-coun-
tryman, Carl o. Petersen, who was
the chief radio engineer of Admiral
Richard e. Byrd's Little America ex-
petition. Announcement is made that
an airplane has now been purchased,
and that the hazardous journey will be
begun some time in August; it is
pointed out that the pilot, the radio
operator and all the hackers are
Norwegian-Americans
Twenty-Five Years.
At it's national convention in Seat
tie, WASH, the Scandinavian Frater-
nifty reelected Frank Burman execu-
tive secretary post which he has
filled for 25 years. Mr.. Burman is
native of Vestra HUSKY, Osterg0t-
land, Sweden, where he was born in
1856; he came to the United States in
1881, settling in Nebraska where he
state legislature. Later he moved to
Seattle and here became actively in
terested in organization work among
the Swedes and other Scandinavians
on the Pacific coast, with the result
that in 1907 he was elected secretary
of what is now known as the Scandi-
navian Fraternity.
HershOlt as Host.
Jean Hersholt, Danish movie actor
in Hollywood, has been so successful
in gathering contributions in this
country to bring the Danish Olympic
teams from Copenhagen to Los An
geles, that it has become almost en-
barrassing to him. The other day
the Swedish consul in Les Angeles
informed Mr.. Hersholt that the Swed-
ish Olympic teams wanted him to act
as host for the Swedes, too, and Of
ficiate at the welcoming exercises for
the Swedish participants in the Olym-
pic Games. Hersholt felt, he said,
both embarrassed and highly compli-
mented, but felt that he had to de-
SiIllC tliC lldtICIiuS IuN IldtlOH.
Memorial Gift.
On July 4, 1914, a Norwegian-Am-
erican delegation delivered to the
Norwegian government the amount of
245,OOO Kroner as Memorial Fund
the interest of which was to be dis
tributed for charity purposes as soon
as the original sum had increased to
100000 Kroner Cat the present ex-
change rate, about $6O,OOO). Since
1920 the interest amounts have been
distributed each year, and the 1882
awards were made the other day to
the extent of 1926 Kroner (about
S3,325) portions of which amount were
divided between needy educational in
situations and deserving INDECENT indi-
viduals. There were 1913 applications,
but not all could be acted favorably
on.
c. G. Alden Dead.
Carl G. Alden, Swedish American
author and newspaperman, died few
days ago in Oakland, Calf, at the
age of AZ. He was born at Kumla,
Sweden, and came to America in 1903:
soon he interested himself in contro-
versial religious journalism, published
and edited papers in Swedish and Eng
fish, and wrote a large number of
books, dealing with religious prob
lens as we'll as containing impress
siOns received in the course of his
extensive travelling.
FrancO.DaniSh.
When it was announced last week
that Jean Jules Jusserand, former
French ambassador to the United
States, had died in Paris, it was re-
called that he was a guest at the
| dinner which Count Carl Moltke, then
Danish minister at Washington, in
1911 gave in honor of the visit of the
Danish University singers after their
singing before President Taft and his
guests at White House garden party.
Monsieur Jusserand delightfully."- sur