Dinner honors soviet engineers on 2-week tour of the united states

PROMINENT SOVIET ENGINEERS, Vladimire P. Loukine of the Machine Construction Ministry and Georgi P. Kazanski of the Collegium Radio-Technical Ministry, Moscow, U.S.S.R., were entertained at dinner in the Engineers Club on the evening of their departure for Moscow after a 14-day tour of the United States. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), with Brigadier General S. E. Reimel, consultant, acted as host by request of the State Department. The dinner was attended by representatives of the AIEE; W. N. Wisely, secretary, American Society of Civil Engineers; E. O. Kirkendall, secretary, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; and C. E. Davies, secretary; and other representatives of the ASME. Mr. Logofet, U. S. State Department representative, acted as interpreter as well as Mr. Dudenkov of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D. C.