Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-02-18
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prominently affiliated with some of
the most important firms within this
field.
To Explore Greenland.
Word comes from Philadelphia that
the Academy of Sciences in that city
has obtained the permission of the
Danish government to send an expedi-
ton, consisting of six scientists and
their crew, to Greenland for eXplora
ton purposes. 1t is, especially, the
southern part of Greenland which will
be studied by the Americans. On
March 1, the expedition will leave
Copenhagen aboard one of the boats
of the Royal Greenland Trade Co., all
technical preparations having been
completed in anticipation of the Dan
ish government approval.
Killed by Burglars.
Martin Knudsen, a member of the
Chicago police force, was killed last
week when he surprised three burg
lars intent on breaking into a store
on Trumbull avenue. Knudsen was
patrolling his beat when his atten-
ton was attracted to the burglars and
although they at once fired their guns
at him, he, without a moments hesi-
tation, shot back. But three guns
against one proved an unequal situa-
ton, and in a few minutes Knudsen
fell to the street fatally wounded. He
died shortly after. Knudsen was born
in Bergen, Norway, in 1887, had come
to America in 1906, and was men,
Der of the Chicago police force for
IS years. His wife and two minor
children survive him.
DIR. Antevs Honored.
DR.. Ernst Antevs, professor of geol-
ogy at the University of Stockholm,
Sweden, has been awarded the Smith
sonian Institution Exploration prize,
amounting to $4,000 and a gold medal,
in recognition of his researches in
connection with phenomena of the
Glacial period. DR.. Antevs spent sew
eral months in this country and Can
ada studying geological formations,
and his report which has been filed
with the Smithsonian Institution, was
characterized as especially able and
scholarly.
American Compliment.
Commenting upon the fact that the
delegation of Denmark at the inter-
national disarmament conference in
Geneva proposed total general disarm-
ament, an American newspaper cor
respondent cables his paper: "The
big nations always suffer from COM
plexes, or have strange and compli-
Gated designs half concealed in what
they do or say. But the Danes be-
have in general like people whose
consciences are clear; who are not
obsessed with hates or fears, and who
could, if given the job, run Europe as
it should be run"
DIR. BOnnevie Coming.
Professor Kristine Bonnevie of the
University of Oslo has been invited to
give a series of lectures at several
American universities in September
and October; she was the first woman
in Norway to be graduated as a doc
tor of medicine-some thirty years
agO-and has attained international
renown as the author of a number
of works dealing, especially, with
heredity and embryology. At the
present time DR.. Bonnevie teaches GER
tain phases of zoology at the Norwe-
gian university.
To Describe Trip.
Harry F.: son Fable, a Swedish
American newspaperman in Seattle,
Wash, has been asked by the leading
publishing house of Sweden to write
book about the experiences of the
Utterstrom film expedition to remote