Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1956-04-01
News In Brief
From Denmark

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gratulatory messages to Mayor
Eric G. Hoyer on the Centenary
of the City of Minneapolis where,
as he said, 80 many Danes have
found a new home
= Safe methods for determin-
ing that offspring will be of a
desired sex "are sure to be found,
according TO DR.. H. V. Brondsted
of the University of Copenhagen,
Denmark, in a report originally
made to UNESCO and circulated
now by the Bulletin of the Ato-
mic Scientists in Chicago.
- The Danish Air Force has
been authorized to contract for
the purchase of seven Sikofsky
sos helicopters.
- Preliminary reports indicate
sursplus on the Danish State
budget of between 500 and 525
million kroner, thus higher than
that of $50 million kroner indi-
Gated last November.
- Erik Bruhn, famous Danish
dancer, again gets high praise here
for This brilliant Albrecht with
Nora Kaye in 'Giselle'" by Clau-
dia Cassidy in Chicago Tribune.
= The scarlet red coats worn
by Danish mail carriers were in
PRODUCED $50 years ago. and the
jubilee will be observed by stamp
exhibition November 1913 in the
Grundtvig House in Copenhagen.
Malthe HaSselriis, Danish
born portrait and miniature pain
ter, received First Prize at the re-
cen saith Annual Exhibition of the
American Society OF Miniature
Painters in New York.
= A report from Haderslev says
that the churches in that Danish
city near the Danish German bor-
der, according to a recent survey,
attract as many people as the
movies.
- The Rev. Owe r. Nielsen, who
in 1945-48 served the Danish
church in Perth Amboy, n. j.. has
been appointed to executive work
in Lutheran World Relief.
- Lord Mayor H. P. SorenSen
of Copenhagen, who will be 20 in
December and will retire soon, eX-
poets in May to pay a three
months visit to the United tSates,
accompanied by his wife.
- The New York City Ballet
will give guest performances early
next season at the Danish Royal
Theatre in Copenhagen.
= The International Pony Bree-
ders Congress will be held July
II to July 10 at the Royal Veteri-
nary and Agricultural College in
Copenhagen. The Secretariat is:
Ministry of Agriculture. 10 Slot
holmsgade, Copenhagen X, Den
mark
- Ecuador has established
Legation in Copenhagen with Mr..
Jorge Villacre Moscoso as Charge
d Affaires.
The Rev II. Flensmark of
Copenhagen is due in Washington
to attend a Congress on kinder
gartens whereafter he will visit
various social institutions in the
USA.
- The United Evangelical Luz
theran Church (57 900 members
will hold its Goth annual conven-
ton June 19-24 in Cedar Falls
Iowa. = and the American Evan
gehcal Lutheran Church will hold
its 18TH convention August If
10 at Muskegon, Michigan.
- The 37-year-old Danish Pas
tor Mogens V. zeuthen will serve
as secretary for European Church.
es within the Dept. of Lutheran
World Service as Lutheran World
Federation contact with minority
churches in Italy, Switzerland,
France, Yugoslavia and the coun-
tries behind the Iron Curtain in
Europe.
- c. d. Holten-E ggert, former
ly of the Permanent United Ma
tions Mission in New York, is the
new Danish Envoy with legation
in Cairo. y
- Two abstract artists are to
represent modern Danish art at
the international art show at the
Biennale in Venice in June; The