Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-05-19
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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In the latter part of August the
sportsmen will leave for their home
country. All their expenses while in
this country will be betrayed by the
Danish-American Olympics committee
which now has fund of about $4,000
and needs $4,000 more.
Sigrid Undset May Come.
Tomorrow Nine. Sigrid Undset, in
ternationally famous Norwegian nov
elist, celebrates her sixtieth birthday,
and in this connection Publisher AL
fred KnOpf, New York. announces as
a result of visit he recently paid
her at her home in Norway that Nine.
Undset-whose works are widely read
in American editions-is contemplate
ing a years sojourn in the United
States. Mr.. Knopf had suggested that
the famous author give a series of
lectures here, but she declined to con-
slider this. She wants to study the
American people. she says, and she
thoroughly dislikes authors who eX-
plot whatever fame they may have,
on the lecture platform"
Drama.
Ture Anderson, 35-year old Swede
of Chicago, last week shot and killed
his estranged wife, Clara Norlin An
derson, and then shot himself in the
temple, dying two hours later in a
hospital. Viola Lofquist, cousin Of
the slain woman, said that Mrs. An
derson had come to Chicago from
Sweden five years ago; in December,
1880, she married Anderson who also
had come to this country a short time
beforehand she left him because he
abused her, and was guilty of in
fidelity.
National Festival.
On June 5-Denmark's Constitu-
tion day-the oath annual Danish
American national festival takes
place in Riverview Park, Chicago.
Among the speakers who have prom
ished to appear, are Jens Eriksen, a
member of the editorial staff of the
Chicago Daily News, DR.. Herman
Bundesen, former city health officer
of Chicago, and. as he says himself
"a fifty-fifty Dane," and DIR. H. P.
Petersen, Evansville. A group of
amateur actors will present Hostrups
play, "Feriegasterne" ("The Vacation
Visitors'O on an open-air stage. Ac-
cording to advance estimates made by
the National Committee, sponsor of
the affair, at least 10000 persons can
be expected to attend.
DR.. Vincent I'm Oslo.
DR.. George E. Vincent, former pres
ident of the Rockefeller Foundation,
was lecturer at the University of
Norway in Oslo a couple of weeks
ago. He pointed out that intellectual
life in the United States is becoming
no longer can it be truthfully said
that Americans are nation of dollar
chasers. DR.. Vincent told his Norwe-
gian hearers that a finely developed
idealism originally sprung from
Europe, is growing ip America, and
Norwegians who have helped build
present-day United States.
To Write About u. S.
Professor Hedge Nelson at the Lund
university, one of the prominent geo.
logists of Sweden, is planning to visit
the United States this year. He has
been in this country on several for
mer occasions, and has written sew
eral books about his American i'm
pressions, notably America, It's Ma
ture and Its People; he now intends
to supplement his former literary ac-
tivities along this line with work on
Swedish Settlements in America"
In Memory of Adam Dan.
Last Sunday a monument, erected
by the Danish Lutheran st. Stefan's
congregation, Chicago, was unveiled
on the grave of the Rev. Adam Dan in
the lakewood cemetery. The inscription
reads: Adam Dan, 1848-1931; Min
lister and Poet of the Danish-Amer-
lean People for nearly sixty years."
Mr.. Dan was a pioneer pastor among
his compatriots, and was also con-