The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-25
SWEDES PLAN
CELEBRATION
OF PIONEERING
Royalty Of Nation Will Be
Welcomed by F.D.R. in
Delaware Monday
Bv ROBERT VERMlLLlON
IIn;teJ Pres. Staff Correspondent

United ffess otdii
WILMINGTON, Del, June, 70;
GTPl president Roosevelt VIII
welcome the tall crown prince OF
Sweden Monday as he steps to the
Delaware shore in symbolic re-
enactment of the landing here
400 wears ago of small band OF
Nordic settlers. 49, .
The royalty and statesmen OF
two nations, who emulated with
modern swiftness the long, haz-
ardous voyage of the two Swed,,
ish banks - the kalmar Nyckel
and the Fogel Grip across the
North Atlantic ocean to establish
the first Swedish colony IN
America, will climax the tercen-
tenary celebration of the arrival
here of $50 Swedes and Firms on
April s, 1888.
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, his
son. Prince Bertil and Crown
Princess Louise of Sweden. DR..
E. Rudolf W.: Holsti, Fmlands
minister of foreign, affairs. and.
Vaino P. Hakkila, speaker. of the
Finnish parliament, will sail up
the Delaware. river over the same
course followed by the tiny,
weatherbeaten banks toward the
strip of land decided to them by
King Gustavus Adolphus. b.!
President Roosevelt will open
the week-long international cele-
bration at ceremonies in Whining
ton Sunday. Sunday night he will
travel down the Delaware river in
the president yacht Potomac to
greet the Swedish motorship
kungsholm. Monday morning,
Grown Prince Gustaf will disem-
bark from the Kungholm's tender
and set foot on the Delaware
shore at the spot where Peter
Minuit, Dutch soldier of fortune,
set down his two shiploads of
Scandinavian immigrants 300
years ago. ...
On that spot, Prince Gustaf
will dedicate a 20-foot monument |
of black Swedish granite by the
noted sculptor Carl Miles, in
Queen Christina Park-perma-
nent memorial to the band Of !
settlers. There the two foreign |
delegations will be formally pre-
scented to the president.
On Tuesday, the Kungsholm
will carry it's royal passengers up
the Delaware to Philadelphia |
where a state dinner, honorary
degrees from Temple university |
and the University of Pennsyl-
vania will be conferred on the
foreign notables.
In 1888, Peter Minuit. carried
the band of immigrants to North
America at the request of King
Gustayus Adolphus, having won
considerable respect as a nego-
tiator for new world lands by
purchasing Manhattan island from
the indians for $24 and a keg of
whiskey.
Several years before, Minuit
had called parley of Indian
chiefs and arranged for occupa-
ton of territory along the Della
ware. He returned to Sweden and +
embarked with his load of set
tiers.
Preparations for the Swedish
royalty held public interest in
Wilmington and Philadelphia for
several weeks, and included a
brief period of worry over the |
availability of extra-length beds
for. the six foot, four inch crown
prince and his equally long son. |
Mrs. George E. Earle, wife of the
Pennsylvania governor, disclosed
however that her beds were suffi-
GENTLY long.
Lacking foreknowledge of the
preferences of handsome, Bache-
lor3prince Bertil, Miss Joanna W.
Biddle, brunette, and Mrs. Mar
garet L. Jones, blonde, were as
signed to be his dinner and lunch
con partners, respectively. The
Pennsylvania celebration commit
tee also announced that no LIQUOR
viii be purchased from the SA0