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Oslo To Fly London
20,000 Sandwiches
os‘Lo, June 2.—Norway will
fly 20,000 sandwiches, Weigh
ing more than 2,000 pounds,
each day to Croydon Airport
outside of London for use in
passenger planes, it was an
nounced.
The sandwiches were in
tended to help British caterers
who found it difficult to pro
vide food for passengers be
cause of present shortages.
“The Day of the
Sea” Celebrated
In Swedish cities
STOCKHOLM. -— “The Day of
the Sea." was celebrated for the
first time recently in Sweden. As
it should be, Gothenburg———the
Swedish shipping metropolis on
the west coast of Sweden—was
the centre of the festivities. The
inaugural speech was given by
Prince Berti], son of the Swedish
Crown Prince and himself a. na
val officer, who during the war
years was head-of a motor tor
pedo boat division.
In the course of his speech the
Prince recalled, among other
things. the heavy losses which had
even hit neutral Sweden during
the war. Over 1,000 Swedish sea
men and 235 vessels of 546,209
tons gross were lost owing to ac
tions of war.
The program also comprised
the launching of a tanker of 17,-
OOO—tons. “Arabian Queen." at the
Gb'taverken shipyard. and in the
evening there was a ball on board
the Swedish anti-aircraft cruiser
“Gotland.” which recently re
turned from a. cadet. cruise to
South America.
Radar Brings llp
Brandy From Sea
S'I‘OCKHOLM—A case of Three
Star brandy was the unexpected
catch made by a Swedish naval
vessel, engaged in experimenting
with radar as an aid to fishing in
the Baltic.
The experiments are being car
ried out with a view to establish
ing the extent to which radar can
be put to practical use in the fish
ing industry. When certain read
ings of the radar set were being
tested, a wooden case was brought
up from the bottom of the sea and
proved to contain bottles of high
quality brandy.
It was lost several years ago by
a revenue cutter which had seized
a liquor-running vessel at sea in
heavy weather.
Many Students to
Meet in Bergen
OSLO —— Students from 22
countries. including the United
States, England. and Russia.
will be guests of the Norweg
ian Students Union during a
two-week session to be held in
Bergen from July 5th to 19th.
Norway will be the second of
the four Scandinavian couu
tries to be visited by the group
during a month's tour. Here
they will be housed at Fana
Folkehogskule, a college some
5 miles outside of that pictur
esque city.
Teachers and lecturers will
include Norwegian specialists
in the various fields of study
and an interesting schedule of
lectures and field trips is also
planned for the two-week per
iod. Not all study will be con
fined to school rooms, how
ever. 'I‘rips are to be made to
Hardangerfjord. to the home
of Edvard Grieg. and to other
near-by places of interest. A
series of short aeroplane trips
is planned for the students in
order to better show some. of
the unique land and water for
motion. which typify the Ber-
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New Power Plant Goes Underground
OSLO—Plans for a 180,000 KW
power station to be blasted out of
a Norwegian mountain at a depth 1
of nearly 3.000 feet were recentlyi
approved by giirectors of the Vin-f
stra Power Company in Oslo, Nor- )
way. The new development. whicni
will be capable of producing over‘
7 billion KVV-hours of electricity]
is the first of its kind in Norway,
and is expected to be invulnerablei
to air attack. §
Director R. Fagerberg of the
Vinstra firm points out, however.
that protection is not the sole pur
pose in placing the generators so
far underground, as the new de
parture will also reduce construc
tion expense and increase the
power of the new plant. It is noted
that the length of the water~con
duit tunnel will be considerably re
duced and that an additional 25
feet of water-fall will thus be
obtained.
Water will be led through a 23
kilometer long tunnel to a large
generator room to be blasted out
of solid rock. A transformer room
together with tunnels for conduit
cable will also be installed under
ground. Excavation coats alone
will total 29,600,000 kronor with
Consul General Lindholm visits Portland
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Irving E. Erickson I: seen M the right 0! the Queen.
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the first construction phase to be
completed by 1952, and completion
scheduled for 1954. Preliminary
construction of roads to the build
ing site, barracks, shops. etc. is
already under way, and construc
tion of the main in—flow tunnel is
expected to be well advanced by
winter.
British Farm Delegation
Makes Tour of Sweden
STOCKHOLM — Farmers from
the English counties of Suffolk,
Essex. and Cambridgeshire are
now on a, tour of Sweden. They
belong to the British Agricultural
Discussion Society, whose secre
tary. George Tickner, is a member
of the group. George Coleman,
leader of the delegation. stated in
a newspaper interview that he had
found many things worthy of care
ful study.
‘ Farm buildings in Sweden, he
said, are better than those in Eng
land and he was very impressed
‘by the widespread use of electric
‘ity. even in remote rural districts,
and the efficient manner in which
water is supplied, both to feed cat
tle and to irrigate fields.
DANISH MUSIC
A Survey
by
Sven Lunn. Librarian
The Royal Library, Copenhagen
g Like a festive flourish the any
icient bronze lures sound a ringing 3
Eintroduction to the history of Dan- ‘
Eish music. bringing an inspiring;
imessage from a civilization dat-i
ling back more than 3000 years:
j The old sagas of the north give
Ievidence of a high degree of mus
ical culture. and a wealth of
jmedieval ballads and folk songs
{from a later period indicates how
Ideeply rooted in the popular soul;
music is. Many musicians of re
!nown were called by the Danish
ikings of the renaissance period
lto heighten the lustre of their
ibrilliant courts. Thus the English-
Jman John Dowland and the Ger
fman Heinrich Schultz, two of the
imost eminent composers of that
gperiod. held positions at the Court
lof Christian IV, whose reign end
led in 1648. One of their contem
lporaries was the Danish composer
lMogens Pedersen (1585-1623)
whom the king sent to Italy and
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later made Vice-Director of the
Royal Orchestra.
The greatest Danish composer
of the baroque period was the
master-organist Dideric Buxte
hude (1637-1707) who played the
organ at Elsinore for many years
prior to his appointment to St.
Mary's in Lubeck. from where his
fame spread all over Europe. His
renown was such that even Jo~
harm Sebastian Bach came on
foot from Thuringia to hear him
play.
However. a specific national
note in Denmark's musnc was not
in evidence until about the close
of the 18th century. The first
time we meet this real Danish
note is in the music of Johan
Ernst Hartmann {1726-1793) to
the song—piays “Balder's Death"
and “The Fishermen" written by
Johannes Ewald (1743-1781). one
of Denmark's great poets‘ Here
the composer has embodied the
spirit of the north. though the
music is presented in the neo
classical style.
An event which marked an
epoch in the history of Danish
music was the introduction of
opera 0n the stage of the Royal
Theatre as an art form on a
level with plays and ballets. l'p
to then, opera performances had
been given in Copenhagen only
occasionally. and mostly by vis-it
ing troupes. The Saxon composer.
I. G Naumann. was brought to
Copenhagen to reorganize the
Royal Orchestra. He wrote the
opera “Orpheus and Eurydice"
which was given its first perfor«
mance in 1786. In addition to the
opera._a great many musical clubs
tor societies) created a favorable
soil for the thriving of the art
of music in Denmark.
The first musical director of
the opera after its fusion with
the Royal Theatre was I. A. P.
Schulz (1747-1800) who gm-e the
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Planting Time
In Oslo Schools
OSLO — Planting in Oslo's
school gardens is now in full
swing. Long an important seg
ment of the Norwegian capi
tal‘s educational system, each
pupil is allotted a small plot
of ground to plant and care
for; At the present time. total
area of School garden plots
now under cultivation repre
sents a considerable figure, and
produce grown last year in
school gardens was valued at
nearly 242,000 Kr. 1848.500i.
A total of 3.113 Oslo chil
dren participated in last year‘s
school garden projects. All pro
duce is the property of the
young gardeners and consists
of vegetables. fruit. and flow
ers to be taken home as a
valuable addition to the family
larder or for beautification of
the home.