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Package Delivery
Delay Explained
OSLO. —— In response to recent
criticism charging the Norwegian
postal system with unduely de
laying delivery of parcel post
shipments from the United States
to Norway. a post-office investiga
tion has shown that in most in
stances the delay has occurred on
the American side.
Concentrating on Christmas
shipments, it was shown that rela
tively large quantities of packages
did not arrive in Norway until
after Christmas -— in many in
stances as late as February and
March. An investigation of pack
ages arriving in January and Feb
ruary showed that large numbers
of packages were mailed in the
United States as early as October.
Citing the “S. S. Fred Morris"
as an example. it was shown that
this vessel left New Orleans on
Dec. 23, 1947, and after unload
ing cargo in several European
ports did not arrive in Oslo until
Feb. 1, 1948. Aboard were 8855
Christmas packages, many of
which had been over four months
en route to Norway. The report
concludes that American postal
authorities have been holding par~
cels in American ports until large
shipments could be made.
Insulin From
Whale Pancreas
OSLO. _- Never-ending studies
to find new uses for whale and
whale-oil products may soon re
sult in another important discov
ery. Norwegian and Swedish
scientists have long been experi
menting with methods to extract
insulin from the whale pancreas.
Success of these experiments
would provide Norway with an
other important export article
hitherto imported from abroad.
At the present time insulin
prices are high in Norway. As an
aid to diabetic sufferers residing
in Oslo the city's health office re
cently announced that patients
might apply for funds for insulin
purchases.
Several years ago. a process
was developed whereby a powerful
vitamin A concentrate was de
rived from whale liver. The Apote
kens Laboratories in Oslo haxe ex
panded production of this product«
and exports are now valued at
nearly 4.000.000 kr. yearly. Big
gest consumers are the foreign
margarine industries.
Jungstedt Exhibits In Philadelphia
Dr. Marshall Swnn (loft). cur-tor of the America: Swedish Iliu
toricol Museum in Philadelphia. with the iunouu Swedish uilui
Kurt Jung-teat at the opening recently of an exposition at the mu
m of Junptedt'n oil paintings. Jungstedt hu him demented
oovord o! the ships 0! the Swedish American Una.
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Vol. 4, No. 4.
ScandinavianTourist Chiefs
Map Promotional Program
The first united effort by a
group of European nations to at
tract American tourists is being
initiated by Denmark, Norway
and Sweden, it was announced here
today.
The heads of the three national
organizations met in New York
with their American representa
tives and officials of the prin
cipal Scandinavian carriers to map
plans for a coordinated program
which will present the tourist at
tractions of the Scandinavian
countries as a unit rather than
separate entities.
It marks the beginning of a
comprehensive program. to in
clude joint advertising. film dis
tribution, exhibits and combined
operations in the distribution of
literature, publicity material. win
dow displays and other promo
tional enterprises.
In a joint statement issued by
Mr. Mogens Llehtenberg, Director.
Danish National Tourist Associa~
tion, Copenhagen. Denmark, Mr. G.
B. Lampe. Director, Norway Trav
el Association, and President of
The International Union of Offi
cial Travel Organizations. Oslo.
Norway, and Dr. Gustaf Munthe,
Director, Swedish Tourist Traffic
Association. Stockholm. Swoden.
it was agreed that the three Scan
dinavian travel organizations in
this country in cooperation with
the Danish East Asiatic Company,
Norwegian America Line. the
Scandinavian Airlines System, and
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, APRIL, 1948
the Swedish American Line coord
inate their promotional activities
in order to achieve greater effic
iency and effectiveness.
Among the points to be carried
out under this joint program are:
The printing and distribution of
literature; Issuance of travel pos
ters; Publicity regarding tourist
attractions in the Scandinavian
countries; and a comprehensive in
formation service for schools. ed
ucators and the general public.
The Scandinavian Tourist Con
ference in New York’ recently or
ganized by the heads of the Three
Scandinavian Tourist Information
Offices in New York, will coordin
ate the enlarged program under
the direction of C. H. W. Hassel
riis, Director of the Danish In
formation Office; Knut Olsen. Di
rector of the Norwegian Travel
Information Bureau and Birger
Nordholm. Director of the Swedish
Travel Information Office.
A link Between
Sweden, Islam
For our knowledge of the ex
tension of Islamic trade influence
in a northerly direction we can
rely not only on written sources.
but also on the enormous number
of Muhammadan coins which have
been found in different parts of
Russia. Finland. Sweden. and Nor
way. not to mention some isolated
finds in the British Isles and in
Iceland.
On the middle course of the
Volga. in the province of Kazan.
great quantities of these coins
have been found. but these are far
surpassed in number by the Arabic
coins found in the Baltic prov
iiges. In Scandinavia, the chief
finds are on the southwestern
coast of Sweden and the southern
point of Norway. The coins belong
to the period from the end of the
seventh to the beginning of the
eleventh century.
mic merchants themselves ad
vanced so far to the north as these
places. for it appears from the
written Arabic sources that the
country of the Volga Bulgars. on
the middle course of that river.
was the final goal of their trade
expeditions and their embassies.
. . . The fact, however. that the
coins are found over so wide an
area is a symptom of cultural in
fluence. and proves that the Mu~
hammadans purchased in the Bul
garian markets a good many ware
from the peoples living in the
northwest. Amongst these the
Scandinavian Russians were the
most important.
We know from geographical
works. principally from al-Maqdisi.
what were. the wares that the Is~
lamic merchants acquired in this
way: “Sables. minivir. ermines.
the fur of foxes. beavers. spotted
hares, and goats: also wax. arrows.
birch bark. high fur caps. fish
glue. fish teeth, castoreum. amber.
prepared horse hides. honey. hazel
nuts. falcons. swords, amiour. ma
plewood. slaves. small and big cat
tle."—From "The Legacy of Is
lam." eited by Sir Thomas Arnold
and Alfred Guillaume. «New York:
Oxford Untverslty Press, 1941.)
=81-Year-0ld Nobel Prize Winner
Sails For Oslo in the MS. “Gripsholm”
The 81-year old Nobel peace
prize winner, Professor Emily
Greene Balch. was among the
1239 passengers. when the Swed
ish American liner “Gripshnlm”
sailed for Gothenburg, Sweden.
Friday. March 26.
Miss Balch. a professor at Wel
lesly College and an arden fight
er for peace, is traveling on be
half of the One World Award
Elsa Brandstrom-Ulich Dies
NEW YORK. March 4.» Mrs.
Elsa Brindstrbng-Ulich, known as
the "Angel of Siberia." for her
work among prisoners of war dur
ing and after the first world con
flict. died today at her home in
Cambridge. Mass. She was fifty
ntne yen-a old.
Born in St. Petersburg. RussuL
on Much 26. 1888, she was the
Committee to lecture at 0510 and
other European capitals. She is
taking the place of the late Mayor
Fiorello H. LaGuardia. although
herself a prominent worker for
the ideals initiated by the late
Wendell Wilkie and a winner of
the Nobel peace prize in 1946.
In the picture is shown Jacques
F. Fen-and. secretary of the One
“’orld Award Committee.
daughter of the Swedish Minister
to Russia. General Edvard Brind
strom. At the outbreak of the
First World War she became an
army nurse. and when the Swedish
Red Cross in 1915 began its work
among the German and Austrian
prisoners of war who had been
sent to Russia and Siberia, she
became a Swedish delegate. For
five years she made perilous jour
neys from one prison camp to an
other. She was often dangerous—
1y ill and had little means at her
disposal. but she continued her
work.
Shortly after the war she moved
to Germany where she established
a senator-ium which gave employ
ment and medical care to thou
sands of prisoners. and also found~
ed a home for orphaned children.
She married Prof. Robert Ulieh in
1929. In 1934. because of the rise
of Hitlerism. the Ulichs moved
with their two-war old daughter,
Brita. to the Pinned States At
the invitntion of seventy women‘s
organizations. she went to Sweden
in 1945 where she gave a series
of lectures. the proceeds of which
she donated to the, Save-theChil
dren Society. For her .har’itnblo
and welfnre work Mrs Ulich re
ceived mw medals and other
honors.
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