Moscow, Aug. 8.
Official crop returns for August} 1 indicate that the harvest, al: though in many districts delayed by rains, is on the average at "middling" with the Soviet Union's} granary in the Ukraine slightly above the average. It is noteworthy that this report dispenses with the numerical system hitherto employed, one to five or poor to excellent ith intermediaries, and instead operates with middling and below and above middling—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min: primary purpose of the "tour," they described it, was to give 4 thorough testing-oit "of many of Mr, Lundgren's inventions.
Mr. Lundgren is known as a maker of sundry devices for aeroplanes, one of the best known havin been: the avife pelons which helped the Southern. Cross in its Jong flight from the United States to Australia, The full extent of the equipment of the Emsco craft has not been made known, but it is believed to contain several important navigation and other devices, Mr, Williams, with Lewis Yancey; flew in the monoplane Pathfinder from Old Orchard, M., to Santander; Spain, in July, 1929." He is among the best-known of Ameziean pilots, United Press.
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