Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-03-17
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
CONTINUED from Page II

CONTINUED from Page II
thor is Danish Lutheran minister
in Chicago, married to Mamma Rod
holm a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs.
S. d. Rodholm, formerly of Askov.
Norwegian Comments.
According to an Oslo cablegram.
the ''Tidens Tegn,' one of the largest
newspapers in Norway, last week edi-
torially commented upon the Lind
bergh baby kidnapping case in these
words: What is happening in Amer
lea now is merely a proof of what has
often been said on this side of the
Atlantic, that criminals have the
upper hand over there. There is
something sickeningly humiliating in
the spectacle of Col. Lindbergh nego-
tiating with masters of the under
world for the return of his child; not
that we blame him for trying any
thing that may promise success, but
it certainly amounts to an admission,
that the authorities are not very law
enforcing. There is something rotten
in-well. in this case in the great re-
pubic vi the NeSlSTH WOI
p. 4. Waller Dead.
Peter A. Waller. glove manufacturer
of Kewanee. H., died last week while
attending a "hard-times party: an
apoplectic stroke was the cause of
death Mr. Waller was born in Gaze
strickland. Sweden. in 1868. came to
this country in 1885, settling i'm
kewanee where he remained: he
amassed a considerable fortune and
was known as a very generous philan-
thropiSt. having donated large sums
of money to charitable and cultural
organizations.
HeniuS and Rebild.
DR.. Max Henius of Chicago returns
this week to his home from the latest
of his almost countless trips to Den
mark. During this visit to his native
country DR.. Henius was a witness in
the court case that has grown out of
a bitter controversy regarding owner
ship and management of the Rebild
National park in Jutland where so
many Danish-American Fourth of
July celebrations have taken place
since 1912; DR.. Henius is generally
considered the Father of the Rebild
Idea" and insists that control is
vested in the Rebild National Park
commission rather than in local
organization at Skorping. A court in
Denmark has now taken the case
under Amusement.
Prefers October 9.
A few weeks ago it was reported in
these columns that the national
George Washington Bicentennial COM
mission had set aside September %
as Left Erickson day in commemora-
ton of the first white man supposed
to have set his foot on American soil.
In view of the fact that Norwegian
American organizations for several
years have celebrated October 9 as
Left Erickson day, petitions have now
been filed with the commission ask
ing it to change its plans so as to
have the national celebrations of the
memory of the NOrwegian-Ice landic
adventurer take place Oh the latter
date
Greta Remains.
RumorS aplenty have recently been
heard to the effect that Greta Carlo.
leading film star. was planning to
go home to Sweden, and remain there
for the rest of her life. These rumorS
are now categorically denied in Holly
wOod-with the significant addition
that Greta Carlo insists on a con
siderably higher salary. and that she
is very likely to get it, depression or
no depression. There is a fairly gen
eral agreement that the American
film needs La Garbo." and that her
departure for her native shores would
be an almost irreparable loss
Immigrants Become EmigrantS.
From various industrial centers in
this country it is reported that the
number of Danes who apply for per-
mission to be returned to their native
country at American government eX-
pense because of hard times here. is
steadily increasing. In Denmark no
particular enthusiasm is shown, for
every new arrival from abroad simply
complicates the unemployment situa-
ton in that country where at present
about 100000 persons are without
work.
France HOnOrS BOier.
Johan Bojer, Norwegian novelist,
some of whose books have been best
sellers in the United States, last week
on his siXtieth birthday was appointed
commander of the French Legion
d Honneur. Mr.. Bojer-who has more
readers in America than in his own
country-has twice visited the United
States, the last time in 1923 when he
delivered a series of lectures from
coast to coast.
Picturesque America.
Karl AlbertS, famous Swedish
painter. is at present in this country
to perpetuate on the canvas his i'm
pressions of American scenery; he
thinks it is the most picturesque in
the world, and believes that Euro
peans know altogether too little about
it: just now MIR. Alberts is in Los