Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-01-21
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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religious services every Sunday under
the auspices of the National Broad
casting Co., last Friday at a luncheon
in Hotel Roosevelt, New York, was
awarded the order of commander of
the Royal Swedish Order of Vasa, by
Swedish Consul General o. H. Lamm.
King Gustaf of Sweden decorated DR..
Cadman in recognition of his service
as vice president of the World AL
lance for international Friendship
Through the Churches.
VIII Try Again.
H. JOhannsen, Danish aviator who
Last year made an unsuccessful at
tempt to fly from Europe to the United
States. has signed contract with the
Junker works at Dessau, Germany,
calling for flight from Berlin via
Paris to New York and back. The
flight is intended to inaugurate SER
les of rOund-trip airplane trips across
the Atlantic ocean. Mr.. JOhannSen
on his last attempt was forced down
in the water and remained on top of
the wreck of his airplane until he
a passing steamer.
"Stella PolariS" In L. $.
Stella PolariS," Norwegian motor
yacht, last week arrived in New York,
chartered by American shippers for a
voyage to New Caledonia, New Guinea.
Java, Borneo, China, Siam. Sumatra
and Mediterranean countries; the trip
deluxe which started last Saturday,
will extend over 100 days, and about
two hundred Americans are taking
part in it. In the ship-news COL
umns of the eastern newspaper the
stella POlaris" is described as the
most luxuriously appointed vessel that
has ever visited American ports. 1t
has crew of 12S men, nearly all Nor
wegians, and the master, Captain Ell
lefsen. is likewise a Norwegian
Representing Sweden.
A selected group of winter sports
men, representing athletic Organiza-
tions of Sweden, arrived January II
in this country and proceeded at once
to Lake Placid, n. Y. to train for
participation in the international win
ter Olympiad which will take place
there next month as a preliminary
feature of the Olympic games in Los
Angeles this summer. The troupe is
headed by Count Clarence Won ROsen
and SiXten JanSsOn, prominent indus
trialist and one of the outstanding
amateur athletes of his country.
Mn,o (u,o,<c,,
At an organization meeting of the
Danish-American Historical Society it
was decided to keep the charter open
three additional months in order to
afford several more Danish Americans,
invited to join, an opportunity to file
their names so that they may be con-
sidered among the founders of the
organization. DR.. Charles H. Johnson,
commissioner of the state welfare de-
partment at Albany, N. Y, (born Of
Danish parents), was elected presi-
dent, and Carl Christian Jensen,
graduate of the University of Mime
sofa and author of the autobiography
cal best-seller, ''An American Saga
was elected secretary.
"DO Not Come Back"
From time to time it has been re-
ported in these columns that large
numbers of Observation-Disclosures
have returned to their native country
with the intention of settling there
because the economic depression pre-
vailing in the United States spelled
hardship for them. Now, correspOn-
dents in Norway write in the Norwe-
gian-American newspapers that their
cOmpatriots on this side of the At