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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13

others. is relied upon by the
dictator for the extraordinary
shrewdnesS OF her Judgment.
Curiously none OF them knows
that Stain exploits them in
turn in orcer 10 obtain informa-
-ticp and viewpoint which he
= rs. ana which he could not get
z Erwise
IL is true that salons such as
prevailed IN st Petersburg and
Moscow during the relgns Of the
Cars no longer exist IN Russia
Nevertheless women often con-
stitute a link between the Kfemlin
and the outer world which other
wise would never have been, estab-
lished. on more than one coca
sion they have smoothed matters
not only between Stain and his
commissars but between Stain
and the representatives Of foreign
powers accredited to Moscow.
They have done so with immense
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13

was leading a precarious exist
ence as a tutor and interpreter in
Bloomsbury. They fell in love. were
married In 1915. continued living
in London In straitened circum-
stances.
Maxim Litvinov already had
had a colorful career as a revolu-
zionist. Born Finkenstein. the
son d rabbi in q small town in
southern Russia. he had Joined the
revolutionary party while q
student at college. In st Peters,
burg. where he soon transferred
himself. he met \Krassine who en-
ployed him in various missions
abroad KraSsine. later Soviet
Ambassador in Paris. always said
that EinkenStein- Was one of his
best agents.
After the Bolshevik upheayal,
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not be imprisoned or molested as
is generally the case where a So
Wet official is dismissed. but that
he should stay in favor with Stain
to the extent of being from time
TO time consulted.
Madame Litvinov's life is in
itself a romance. She was born
Ivy Low. in England Her father,
Walter Low was a newspaper man.
Her mother reviewed books for
the Sunday Observer One Of her
uncles. the late Sir Sidney Low,
was a political writer Her brother,
the late Sir Maurice Low was for
a while Washington correspondent
for the London Morning Post. The
entire family held what in pre-
World War days was called "ad-
Ivanced opinions and Ivy was no
exception
She began her career as a school
teacher but she did not hold the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13

On merit tDeek's article Pvtncess
RadsiirtH tcin trace the enormous
influence 81 Madame Ordionikidzs
as nell as that 81 Madame Molofop
upon Stain and the Soviet Con-
ernnentl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13

winning Stains favor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13
Defeats Stain
In Game of Wits

Madame LitYinov had made q
careful study Of the Russian Ian
gtfa-. 14r-tii44+afli ss sure az being able
to hold her eHh with the Red
dictator, she bearded him in his
den in the Kremlin one morning
under the pretext Of unfolding to
him a new program Of education
which she thought better suited to
Russian children than the one in
existence.
She persuaded Stain to allow
her to try out her plan in a school
for girls where she was working as
a teacher He was struck with her
common sense. asked her to come
and see him again. and little by
little the two became. If not ex-
actly chummy. at least good
friends.
Stain realized that Madame Lit
yinov understood the intricacies OF
European politics better than he
did himself. and liked TO discuss
them with her 1t was later that
ne discovered she was influencing
her husband to try and arrange. II
not an alliance. at least a good
understanding between Soviet Rus
STA and Great Britain
Nov this was about the last
thing the dictator. who vas al
ready planning his sensational
alliance with Nazi Germany.
would have liked 70 do. But ne
thought It might De useful 70 let
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13

his speeches and government re-
ports. She accompanied him to
Geneva when he was appointed a
delegate to the Disarmament Con-
ference. She nearly got into trou-
bic with Moscow. 1t was said that
the Soviet Government censured
her for having allowed herself 10
t be photographed and interviewed
and for streSsing the fact that she
was the only woman delegate at
the parley.
However, the fact remains that
as LitvlnoY's Importance grew, his
wife increased proportionally. until
she came to be recognized as the
First Lady in a land which. until
then, had looked upon women with
something close to contempt.
Ivy Low Litvinov had an i'm
mense advantage which. luckily
| for her, remained undetected by
Stains secret police. She was a
cultured. refined English woman.
She could carry on a fight against
all the uncouth persons sur
rounding her without attracting
any suspicion on their part
Slowly. quietly, without publicity
she contrived to make for herself
a tf11qde position IN MOSCOW
Diplomats began to drop in al
her simple, coy living room at tea
time. certain of being well enter
tanned and warmly received. She
refrained from talking politics
pretended to understanding moth.
ling about the subject. Yet. she
succeeded in becoming well in.
formed about everything that wa,
going on. not only in Moscow. but
in every part of Europe.
She performed the miracle Of
winning Stains favor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13

Ivy Litvinov think he had nothing
against it and thereby check not
only her own plans, but her hus-
bands activities.
In this duel Of wits - It was
nothing else-it was the woman
who emerged the victor. She
could feel that her husbands posi-
dismissal was only a matter Of
time and opportuneness. She
could not prevent that. but she
could prevent his arrest and ex-
ecution as others Of Stains col
laborators had, been arrested and
slain after they had ceased 70
please the dictator.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13
Persuddes LitUinOU
To GiUe Up Post

So she took the bull by the
horns, literally, 1t might be said,
asked Stain to send her to the
Urals 70 try upon the peasant
children Of that region her new
educational program. At the
same time she persuaded her hus-
band to resign his office while she
was away. She was preparing
against any unforeseen action OF
the crafty Georgian whom fate
had made the master Of the vast
country once ruled by the Roma
noff Cars.
Things turned out exactly as
she had anticipated. ReSigning
his functions. Ltvinov retired into
obScurity and remained unmo-
Tested. After a while Madame
LitvtnoV returned to Moscow and.
as II nothing untoward had hap
pened during her absence. asked
for an interview with Stain In
order to present to him a report
on her mission in the Urals. He
ldid not dare refuse her, but their
interview remained absolutely q
business one. albeit most cordial.
Madame HttYinoY returned home
land anything cleverer than her
conduct could not well be mag
ined. She continued 70 see her
friends informally and circulated
the fact that 10 was due TO bad
health her husband was no longer
Foreign Commissar.
However. her official career. ac-
cording 10 what she told people.
was at an end. At an end. that Ia.
until 1t started again." to use the
words OF one of her chief rivals
at the Kremlin. Madame Ordjoni-
kidze, the Esquiman widow of
stains great friend. Serge Ord
jonikidze.
Madame Ordjonikidze Is today
the most important woman In
Soviet Russia Stain trusts her
Implicitly. He hopes she win one
day deliver into his hands Ivy LIT
vinov whom be does not dare
harm. in spite of the fact that
while maintaining surface
friendship. he hates her as only q
Georgian can hate
On merit weeks article Prtncess
Radziiral iciH trace the enormous
influence 81 Madame Ordionikidzs
as nell as that Of Madame Molotoo
upon Stain and the SoUtet Oop-
erHmeutJ
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Saves Husband
From Jail Cell

Despite tie fact that her hus-
band is supposed 10 be In disgrace
with Stain. she still boasts of
Stains friendship. still has free
access to him whenever she hap
pens to have a vital communica-
ton to make In the incident of
her husbands removal from the
post of Commissar of Foreign Az
fairs she displayed such inteili-
Eence and diplomacy that she has
managed not only that he should
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,ar Tor Foreign Affairs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13
Turned Fabian
In Early Life

Ivy then took up newspaper
work. identified herself with one
Of the Fabian groups which in
those days we're Joined by eager
Leftist-minded young people. It
was during these days that she
met Litvinov.
He called himself a prosecuted
nobleman and q refugee
from the Czarist secret police. and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13

Litvinov became q sort OF hero
and was appointed Ambassador
in London. When Bruce Lock-
hard was jailed by the Soviet
Government, Ldtvinov was ex-
changed for the British prisoner.
With relations between London
and Moscow severed there was
no possibility Of Litvinov's return
to England. and he was appointed
assistant to Chicherine. Commits
sar for ForeiRn Affairs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13
PRINCESS CATHERINE RADZIWILI

penetrating deep, Russia astonishing
fact influence exercised by three
in the political industrial life of the nation
these
Russians One by birth Engshwoman, of American
is an Esqumau
Madame LtvlnoY Madame Molooy
Madame OrdiOnikIdze
o. fabulous today be
Madame 0rdjonkidze, the Esquimau
cunning activity the
Stain affairs impossible the
although hold
10 N using o his political advantage
Importance feminine brain Stain and
his denied dparaged Their absolutely
different They nothing Yet eaeh independently the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13
Irked MOscOD
At Genera

This appointment marked the
beginning OF Madame Litvinov's
public career. She started serving
as translator for her husband. and
was credited with writing most of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13

position long because of the frank
ness with which she criticized her
superiors and because two books
from her pen which. though they
would now be considered quite
mild. aroused such public indigna-
ton at the start Of the World War
that the British censor ordered
them DESTROYED
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tact and infinite discretion.
l am going TO try and describe
the more important of these wo-
men. what know about them and
their activitieS-their often fabu-
lous activities. Let US consider
first Madame Etvinov.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13
By Cunning and Intrigue,
.IriO Rules Red Dictator
Who Ills lis S Said "SSeeoe ErlnSs Women

the Which Princess RadztC. author
many de influence
Red HoW three Ued for
methods and their results form the basis Of this lesson Of modern
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Wayne to0ffer
Defense Courses

The most extensive curriculums
in defense yet 10 be offered 10y
the school viii be given by Wayne
University this year, it was an
nounced Saturday.
Registration for the first Il
open. an air corps institute
planned for air cadets over &c
who cannot present two years OF
college credit and wish TO prepare
for the special army eXamIna.
tions, will be held Tuesday eve
ming at Z o'clock in McMlchael In
termediate School. West Crane
boulevard and Grand River avenue
Other defense courses 10 be Of
fered, beginning later in Septem'
Der, will include other air pro
grams, in dustrial production
medicine and nursing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Harness Races

Commencing Monday thercll be
no afternoon performances OF the
rodeo. the hucking bronchoS and
Brahma bulls being eaSed off the
race track by the harness horses.
Pari-mutuels Will be operated and
horSemcn from alt -ovcr the Mid
western circuits arc arriving with
their animals and sulkies.
The Michigan Amateur Radio
Emergency Councils short wave
Setup IN tho American Red Cross
booth IS doing a land-office bust
neSS-frce. The hams as the
radio amateurs are called. send
messages free from parents 10
their sons IN any branch Of the
nations armed services. During
the first two days, 200 messages
were sent from the fair grounds,
picked up al some nearby Michi-
gan amateur station and then re-
layed 10 New York or San Diego
for ships al sea. or 10 army posts
Scatteted all over the country.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Liquor Board
To Fire IS Here

LANSING. Aug. 30. 49, Fifteen
iiquor commission employees N De
troit Will be fired for economy
as the result of a reorganization
of state stores, Clare McNaughton
director Of finance, said today.
IAN extensive study OF our
store organization has been
under way for several weeks
he said. I'VE are streamlining
II as much as possible so II can
be operated economically in the
public's best interest"
Next week the commission vii
close its East Warren avenue
wholesale store. Saloons and club.
will be permitted 10 buy supple.
from neighborhood retail liquor
stores.
A new store at Charlotte anC
Woodward avenues Will be opened
to serve specially-designated dis
tributorS. Besides saving the sal
aries Of IS men. $500 per month
IN rentals viii be saved, McNaugh.
ton said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
2Drdft E|igib|es
At Fair Test
offs Scales
One Weighs 6e7 Lbs,
the Other Only as;
Sergeant Tells Them
to Wait Army Reply

Little Harry Klima OF Tampa
Fla, who Is AZ inches In height
and tips the scales at AZ pounds
and w. d. Tiny" cowan OF Erie
Pa, who is 6 feet tall and weighs
697 pounds, both appearing in the
circus at the State Fair, have re-
ceived their draft questionnaires.
They worried so much as 10 what
use they would be in the army
that they sent for Sergt. ID. r
La Toilette Of the army's mobile
recruiting unit. who told them "a
FIJI IN their QUESTIONABLE and just
sit back and wait.
"Guess those guys will have
10 wait long while, though"
the sergeant said as he went
o back 10 his job Of signing up
other recruits.
Harry Mack, who is a Ford
Motor Company executive for so
weeks in the year, goes Wild West
when the rodeo comes 10 town.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Composer to Play
Sigma Chi Song
F F. BHdfffeigbt Vernon w Wit
Marx AHHHpersafY
at Contention Here

When r Dudleigh Vernon sits
down at a piano. Wednesday noon
in the Book Cadillac Hotel, at the
forty-fifth national bi-annua
meeting Of his S5-year-old college
fraternity, Sigma Chi, he viii
commemorate the thirtieth ami
versary of the writing of the coun
try's best-known fraternity tune.
1t will be Sweetheart of Sigma
Chi which Vernon will play fol
his 600 converting brothers, the
song he tossed off 30 years age
when he was a freshman at Albion
College.
Vernon. today. IS head OF AL.
bionS music department and or
ganist of DetroitS Metropolitan
Methodist Church.
The delegates which represent
the fraternitys 90 chapters in all
leading universities, will arrive
Sunday for a three-day conven-
ton. Such famous alumni will be
there as Associate Justice of the
Court Frank Murphy
Fielding II. Yost; Edwin s. Hill
Hearst columniSt, and Leo Fltz.
patrick of WJR.
Gilbert T. Jerome. civil engineer
is convention chairman.
For the first time in many
years, that quartet of grand OLD
Sigma Chi men from Purdue
Chase S. Osborn, John T. Nc.
-Gutcheon, George AIDE and Booth
Harrington, will not be here for
the convention.
However. Osborn. now 81 year:
old, has composed a poem for the
occasion. 1t will be read at Mon
days session.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Miller Book on Killers
Threat Starts Tuesday

Again The Detroit Times, ir
keeping with its policy of uncoy-
ering the truth Of world develop
ments. presents, beginning Tues
day, a series OF revelations by
Douglas Miller, former United
States commercial attache at Der
lin, who had nearly 20 years Of
relations with German enterprise
Recently The Detroit Times
brought TO its readers Jan Valtin's
"Out of the Night" the book that
shook the world with its eX-
poSures Of the inner workings OF
communism.
NOW it presents the most dis.
cuSeed book on naZiSm, "XOu
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Ford Advances
.Bombers Work
lA.I

Ford Motor Company produc-
ton of Consolidated B-24D bomb
ers, scheduled TO begin in the new
aircraft building at Willow Run
when II is completed, actually VIII
begin long before that in the old
Ford Airport plant at Dearborn
it was revealed Saturday.
The company said that assem-
blies for 10 Of the huge 1l0-foot
Widespread ships Will be made in
the factory where the Ford tri-
motored plane once was made.
Thereby. many production bug
can be ironcd out before regular
production starts later in the VIII
low Run plant, II was added.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Is Natural Move

1T seeIhei Only natural that
the purchasing director for the
state and the administrative
board secretary should be- one
and the same man." Gump said.
michigan has always had a
director, but his hands have
been tied to the secretary's, with
the secretary in actual control
OF purchases. That is why things
NAV not have been what every
one would wish during previous
administrations.
"NOw for the first time there
will be no buck passing. If some
thing II wrong with purchases.
YOU can come 20 me for the
explanation.
II am not politician and
never was one. l have no debts
TO pay and no one can expect
favors from me-"
Gump has been called Andy
ever since The late Sidney SmitI
made his comic strip characte
famous,
Not one TO get sore about sue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Mayor Places Airport
Puzzle Before Council
BY JAMES II. INGLIs

There viii be bitter disappoint-
ment IN Detroit aviation circles
If the city does not break ground
on a new modern airport at Eight
Mile road and Wyoming avenue
next April IN accordance with a
plan which was before Common
Council Saturday.
Detroit, which is fast becoming
the hub OF the nations aviation
industry as a result Of defense
developments. has at present the
most congested airport of any
large city in the United States.
If there is such thing As a
traffic jam in the air. IL has tx.
listed tins Summer over the present
municipal airport at Gratiot and
Conner avenues where as many As
1000 take offs and landings have
been handled in a single day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Housewife Sets
Knitting Record

A new champion came 10 the
fore S turday in Mrs. Robert
Venno, a housewife of 1868 Ten-Mile
road. Centerville, who is said 10
hold all records in knitting Bundles
for Britain.
Since March 81. when Mrs
.Venno began knitting for the Brit
iSh soldiers. she is said 10 have
knit and purled approximately
.16. 10000 stitches in turning out q
total Of 800 socks.
Her greatest day was June II
when she knitted 43 socks with
regulation service weight wool.
Mrs. Nenno is now demonstrat.
ing her skill with the needles al
the Bundles for Britain headquar-
tiers, at the Michigan State Fair,
where a MesSerschmitt plane. shot
down over London, is on display.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
How to Repay Loan

The loan from the airllnes
would be paid back by furnishing
the terminal building rent free 10
the transportation companies.
{. Y. Burnett, manager Of the
present airport and secretary OF
the airport committee explained
that only at the proposed new
site can instrument landings and
take offs be accomplished
With an instrument landing a
plane can be brought safely &c
earth in a dense fog through the
use Of curved radio beam. Only
one airport in the country, Indian.
.apolis, has this now. 1t is being
Installed al Washington. D. C.
LaGuardia Field in New York ano
San Francisco.
Plans of the airport committee
call for giving the airlines eXclu.
iSlVe use of the new airport ano
retaining the present airport foi
the use Of private planes and small.
commercial aircraft enterprises.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Catholic School
To Open Sept. 8

The doors Of immaculate Catho-
lie High School will swing open
for the first time Monday, Septem-
Der 8. and 600 students-its first
student body-will troop into the
first classes to be held there.
The school is the city's newest
Catholic high school for girls and
was recently completed. 1t il
under the supervision of the Sis
ters, Servants of the immaculate
Heart of Mary.
OF steel and concrete, with sand
color brick facing. the fireproof
building houses laboratories, q
gymnasium, cafeteria, student
lounge, chapel, library, auditorium
with movie equipment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31

Can't Do Business With Hitler. -
a story that stands out because
of its vast detail on the machinery
OF the Nazi business. political and
war machines, an expose barring
what America will lose if Hitler
wins. and what it will gain If
Hitler loses.
William L. Shirer. in his Berlin
Diary" called Douglas Miller THE
best informed man on Germany in
our embassy in Berlin"
So YOU won't miss any OF the
10 inStalmentS of You Can't DO
Business With Hitler" starting
Tuesday in the Times. dial Cherry
$500 10 order the Times delivered
TO YOUR home by carrier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
A Pound Per Inch

Dorothy Wcnzel. who is 10 and
comes from Milwaukee. stands
exactly ~ inches in her high
hceled gold slippers they arc size
eight IN childrcnS shoes and
weighs - pounds. one for each
inch Of height. She is as pretty a.
n picture and not al all sensitive
about beng a midget She is with
tkd llennie Brothers Carnival
and has been three years in the
carnival business. She was grad
uatcd from high school whore She
mad a couple of boy friends Al
present, She says. she's unat.
tachcd Both her parents were
normal size. shes naturally a
small cater. but the money she
saves on food has 10 be spent or
clothes for they al have 10 he
made 10 measure.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
HoU Name Stuck

To show how the name has
stuck. when Governor Van Wag-
oner nominated him for his new
job, he used Andy" and admitted
he never knew his first. name was
Eugene.
Gump was born in Indiana, COM
ing 10 Pontiac I'm 1916 TO become
purchasing agent for the Wilson
Foundry and Machine Company. a
position he held for II years. In
1893 he was purchaser during the
receiverShip of the Willys-Over-
land Company AT Toledo. return
ing TO Pontiac IN 1886 10 pursue
his profession for the Hurd Lock
Company.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Wafer WNEeE'
Walks Again

With the water-walking feat Of
last July 4 behind him, Arthur L.
Scott announced Saturday that he
vii walk in the Detroit River
from the west end of Belle Isle 10
the foot OF Woodward avenue on
Monday, starting at , p. m.
Scott, n decorator by trade but
an inventor at heart, walked in
the river from the foot of Mar
quette drive 10 Belle Isle in his
SIS rubberized cloth suit in tao
hours last month.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Andy Gump Qualities
For New State Job
New Administrative
Secretary Topped
Merit Test for Job
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING. Aug. 80. - The APP
pointment OF Eugene A. Andy
Gump as secretary OF the state
administrative board was a sur
prise 10 every one except Gump
himself.
A political VI know Gump
spent Is years as purchasing agent
for large concerns IN the Midwest,
only TO wind up as the states
purchasing director last Spring.
His appointment was not made
To r;y a political debt. He was
10 direct the purchasing OF
l-C go worth of supplies for
because he stood at the
Iob Evil service examinations
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Mayor Unfoids Story

The story Of Detroits airport
requirements and plan for achIev-
ing d sc. 2SS.93O airport for a cash
outlay Of only $S50.0O0 upfolded
last week in a report from Mayor
Edward J. Jeftries' airport com
mittee.
The mayor has placed the
proposition squarely before Com
mon Council which is the city S
appropriating body
The site which has been chosen
is located outside the city limits