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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23
CONTINUED from last week)

Invariably, male support of the
work of Khoziat's department came
from the poorest workers and
peasants who could not afford to
pay kalym, and who were there
fore in favor of abolishing it.
These people, too, were naturally
in favor of doing away with poly
gamy. First, being poor, they had
no hope of ever having more than
one wife, however desirable that
might be. Second, they realized
that with the disappearance of
polygamy, many more women
would be available for the poor
bachelors.
The usefulness of the legal divis-
ion of the Woman's Department
has been attested to by countless
men and women of the poorer
classes who came in contact with
it. It had pushed through the Com
mission of justice a statute grant
ing variety of privileges to wom-
en- who had occasion to resort to
the courts. For instance, on the
Departments recommendation, dc
nestle relations cases involving
property were given first place or
the court calendars. The State
provided the women with lega'
: counsel free of charge.
But legal aid and promulgatine
and popularizing laws that tended
to emancipate the native womer
constituted only one phase of
Khoziat's work. Of no small am
cunt was her work in placing the
| Uzbek, Tadjik, Turcoman, and Kir
ghiz women into the Soviet appar
atus, in working for their election
into local or district Soviets anC
! executive committees, in getting
them jobs in the various indust
rial, commercial, and educationa
organs of the State +, in drawing
them into the Party, the YounI
Communist League, the Pionee
organization, in stimulating thei
active interest in the cooperativ
movement, in Turing them into tn
Departments various voluntary
social welfare and national defens
groups. With the ether officer
in the Department, Khoziat super
vised the conditions under whic
the women worked, tried to- tax
care of the unemployed womer
and cooperated with the employ
ment bureaus in placing them i
$ jobs. Mainly, however, Khoziat'
; attention was focused on the GU
tural and educational fronts
schools clubs, nurseries, hygien,
etc.
You see what the Wcmen's DE-
partment did for Khoziat. Pre-
cisely the same thing was bein
4 done for thousands of wome
throughout Central Asia. Fro
: the very outset, the Departmer
: began to agitate for women
: schools, an idea unheard of in I'll
: old days! Why should a girl
y taught to read and write, whe
: even the male population was
e percent illiterate, the remainin
1 5 percent comprising chiefly IL
e clericals and their childrenl
Il To give the readers an idea
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23

impossible for the different organ
izations to agree. However, there
cannot be any disagreement in
getting satisfaction on the most
pressing needs of the drought
stricken farmers.
The winter is just starting and
things are promising to be rather
tough. The faster the unity move
ment spreads from Minnesota to
other parts of the country, and es-
pecially the Dakotas and Montana,
the better for the welfare of the
poor and drought-stricken farm
population.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23
What has happened before

Last time Margie, Tim and Jerry
were asked by the boys to join the
Purple Riders. q club they were lust
starting. But they don't want
Margie because she is q girl So
Tim and Jerry refused to ioin Tn
stead, with Margie, both Tim and
Jerry start club with mostly girls
Margie's friends. The BOYS make
fun Of Tim and call him Sissy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23
By JOSHUA KUNITZ


partment attracted, I'll cite a
number Of cases told by Khoziat.
First, the case of Zeinof Kariheva.
When she was seven years old,
Zeinof had been sold by her broth
err to a rich old hey. The trans
action had taken place during the
famine in Fergana, and the price
the brother received was Is puds
of moto and a cow. Zeinof's life
with the old hey was perpetual
misery. Abused by her husband,
prosecuted by the two senior
wives and their grown children,
the little girl behaved like wild
cat. Once, when particularly infur-
lated, she jumped at the husbands
/ youngest son, Akhmed, and buried
her nails in his face. The spoiled
youngest let out one piercing, saw
age yell. The old hey then decided
to teach Zeinof a lesson. He beat
her so long and so methodically
that the childwife lay unconscious
for days. When she came to lei
nof ran away from the house. She
hid in the orchard for three days,
until, driven by hunger, she made
her way into the village. By sheer
luck she ran into a group of
Young Communists who upon
learning of her plight collected
some money among themselves
and sent her on to Khoziat's Dep
artment. Khoziat had never seen
anything quite so pitiful as this
child when she was brought into
the office. Blood-stained, bruiesd
shabby, trembling with anxiety
and fear, she kept on crying: 81
won't go back to my husband
his children beat me; my husband
beats me when I don't look happy
, won't go away from here
This was in 1924. Zeinof is nov
!, in herl third year at the Tashken
!. University.
= There was Abdunabaiva, whC
o placed her children in nurseries
: and came to study. There wa'
Kirghizbaiva, who had been givel
q into marriage at the age of IA
$ but who had left her husband anC
: came to the school. Kirghizbaiv;
h had been sold in 1923 to an olC
a husband. The first time she escap
ed, she was caught, beaten by he
husband and his kin and severed,
n wounded with a knife. After sh,
8 recovered, she escaped a secont
time and came to Khoziat Begging
to be allowed to study. Mukhame,
Alieva Khoirakhan had escapes
from her husband who attempte,
: to kill her, inflicting on her twelv
: heavy wounds with his poke
o knife. She was still bleeding Whel
n she stumbled into Khoziat's off
n ice and collapsed. Alieva is now
4 member of the Party, and is beinI
, trained in the Party school TO
a the job of Communist organizer
O Another important phase of tn
n cultural work of Khoziat's Depart
8 ment was the opening of women
o. clubs; the main purpose being t
q draw the woman out of her seclu
sion. When Khoziat came to fash
# kent, the first woman's club i
Central Asia had already been OF
gained there. 1t started with onl
l. fifteen Uzbek women. Within
e couple of years the club boosted
n membership Of 426. It grew b
It leaps and bounds. Branches wer
t. opened throughout the cities an
the villages. There are scores {
ID such clubs now. Men are not a
er lowed to enter the club rooms
2 This makes it easier to get tn
to women in. At the beginning tn
s women Stunned the clubs, fl
a, fear that they might be forced t
lie remove their paranjas. In its clu
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23
NEW WOMEN In OLD ASIA

propaganda, therefore, Khoziat
points that membership was not
contingent on unwilling. To make
sure that the women would be
tempted to come to the clubs, pra-
ctical inducements were offered.
For instance the Tashkent club
organized under its auspices a
sewing artel which gave employ
to- considerable number of wom-
en- workers. 1t established a med
ical service. Women members as
we'll as non-members are encour-
aged to come and consult the De-
partment's physicians. The women
are taught how to take care of
their infants. By means of talks
exhibits, posters, etc., they are
introduced to the elementary
principles of hygiene. They are
given medicine free of charge.
Now it is interesting to note
that, while going to the club does
not require unwilling, unwilling
is the inevitable consequence of
frequent visits to the club.
Owing to the agitation and pres
sure of the woman's department
specialized medical schools; g
Tashkent had in 1924 sixteen
school for trained midwives, an
other school for trained nurses, g
school for doctors assistants, &
school for teaching hygiene, fol
dental hygienists, a pharmacy
school, etc. While at the beginning
the majority of students in these
schools were Russians, the numbel
of native women has grown enor
mously. The service thes'
schools are rendering is of meal
culable value.
Emancipated Women
It was midnight, but Khozia
was not even through witt
her story. BY that time, most O
!, us were too tired to ask questions
and one of the group even begal
to snore-true, quite unobtrusive
, ly and delicately, with sudden
; little starts, and brief pauses, bu
sufficiently pointedly to max
Khoziat a bit self-conscious.
81 had intended to tell you o
my work in Tashkent; it turne
| out, however, that l have toll
little about myself and a Who'll
; lot about the Woman's Depart
: ment," she said apologetically.
7 "This can be explained by two co
: ually important reasons. The frs
isl am a Communist; and thi
: means that like all Communists,
| mean real Communists, l am so al
| sorbed in my work and so com
/ pletely identified with it that whe
2 / speak of my work l actual
speak of myself. My Individual
1 life, my personal emotions, and
: struggles, and sufferingo are re
4 atively of little Importance an
3 probably of less interest. So thi
r is one reason. The other is ths
!. my recent personal life has bee
e a rather painful one, and I natul
: ally am reluctant to dwell on i
5 Still, since it throws some ligK
0 on the psychological | difficultie
: we emancipated women are NEE
= ing on our path, l will tell you
n bit about it. You will recall We
: a young, pretty, innocent and eag
Y er creature when l came with Fe
a zula to Tashkent. I had marie
a Feizula, not because I was attra,
ted to him, but because he We
e kind to me and my mother, an
d also because marrying him meal
f remaining in Kokand, meant col
! tinuing my studies, meant freedo
). When we came to Tashkent, Fe
e zula entered the University, viii
e I divided my time between the
II Workers faculty and the Woman
o Department. / jumped into the
b hurly-burly of Tashkent lif
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23

Answer 10 last weeks picture -.
Bob Minor, Clarence Hathaway -
solinl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23

Here Is q game for you 70 tFys
See if you can sit on q round 80 y.
tie on the floor and thread 9 nee1S
at the same time. You think -
easyS Try It.
Here is an old one you proDa
know. Put on q chair or nCA
small object, this time It coulc 80
q small jack-o-lantern. BlinoiO =
the player and put q long SICK
cane into his hand. Place him 80 ~.
10 feet from the chair. Turn 9
around and let him walk towaIsa
and try to hit the jack-o-lan''"
with the stick.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23

BY Mary Morrow, ChiIdren's editor,
The Daily Worker, 50 East 18th st.
New York City.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-23

Party, instead of make-believe EVE
Spirits we have real Devils, ana :
few of them are Morgan, Hitler ana
MusSolini. If you are going to have
a party on Halloween you snouio
get a copy Of the october New Pc.
neer. In the back you win ma
masks to cut out and wear. AT yoM
party is our modern witch. She nes
a cats face-and her name
Frances Perkins, secretary OF laoos
the lady who tells US that cnila
labor has been done away VIII
when we know It hasn't, ana We
breaks an the strikes when OF
fathers try to get decent pay. IDS
other mask is gold-Stufed Morgan
and the bad men are Hitler -
MuSSolini. With the little recitauol
that 60 along with them, you ~
sure to have q swell HallOws~
Party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
.DILLINGER'S CYCLE Is
TOO NOISY-BUT HIS
FRIEND WILL FIX IT

Herbert Ward, %, of los Berry
avenue, is going to have Hubert
Dillinger's motorcycle fiXed-and
it's not because Dillinger, who
lives at 1410 Otterbein avenue, is
the famous Johns half-brother.
Ward made the mistake of roar
ing up ana down Whittier place
Sunday afternoon on Dillinger'S
motorcycle with an open muffler.
Patrolman Charles E. (Battling)
Halstead was doing in his home,
Is Whittier place, He didn't
like it.
He told Ward so and Ward said
that, policeman or no policeman,
patrolman Halstead couldn't ar
rest him because he was off duty
and without badge. Then,
when patrolman Halstead went
for the badge, Ward left.
Patrolman HalStead swore out
an affidavit and hailed him into
court today. Howard Bates, mu-
nicipal judge pro tenn, fined
Ward So and costs and then sus-
pended sentence on the provision
that Ward repair the motorcycle
and show it, repaired, to patrol
man Halstead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
NAILS PREPARE
FOR TRADE WAR
Moratorium on Debts to Be
Announced Sunday
to Powers.
Copyright. 1884. by United press)

BERLIN, June 26.-Five days
away from a threatened trade war
that might have world ramifica-
tions, Germany's Nazi government
fought crucial battles on half a
dozen fronts today.
Sunday the government intends
to put into effect complete mora
forum on foreign obligations. Great
Britain, France and other countries
are preparing to retaliate by Selling
German credits in their territory
to pay the services on the gilt-edged
reparations bonds.
Hjalmar Schacht, reichsbank
president, planned to impose coun-
ter measures. In Britain'S case he
threatened to ban imports from the
entire British empire.
German delegates sped to London
to attempt an eleventh hour settle
ment.
At home the fight for the new
Germany" the third reich" of
which Chancellor Adolf Hitler has
dreamed since he emerged from
four years in the mud and blood of
the trenches as a common soldier,
proceeded on half a dozen fronts.
In economic, financial. political,
social and cultural fields, the fight
showed a growing intensity that
seemed to make it certain new
pages of history would be written
soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
EDGAR G. M'COLLUM
DIES; RITES ARE SET
Brief Illness Fatal to Grain
Elevator Chief.

Edgar G. McCollum, SO, secretary
and manager of the Indiana Farm
ers' Cooperative Elevator Company,
died here yesterday after short i'll
ness. Funeral services and burial
Will be in Monticello tomorrow.
In addition to his work with the
elevator company, Mr.. McCollum
was employed by thu United States
Grain Association. He came to In
dianapoliS fourteen years ago from
Walcott, where he had taught school
twenty-one years.
He is a former state secretary of
the Indiana Farmers Grain Deal
ers' Association and was a member
of the Monticello Methodist church
and Modern Woodmen.
He is survived by the widow and
a son, Lowell McCollum. Indian
apoliS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
Ext0rtiOn Suspect Bares
Jackson Plot, Cops Say

written crudely on brown wrapping
paper, similar to the letters re-
3eived by Mrs. Lemaux threatening
the life Of her son, Irving Le-
mauX Jr.
The Jackson extortion plan never
was consummated, Brown confessed,
because he was unable to place the
final letter. Mr.. Jackson, however,
drew 5000 from the bank and fol-
lowed the original instructions.
City detectives co-operated with
Mr.. jackson and patrolled the vi
cinity of the cafe waiting for the
extortioner to place the final letter.
Six menacing letters were sent to
Mr.. Jackson before he was given
instructions for the delivery OF
$4,000, Brown is alleged to have con-
fesSed.
Brown was indicted yesterday by
the federal grand jury and faces a
severe prison sentence. if convicted,
under the new Lindbergh kidnapping
statutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26

blue eagle two weeks ago.
The number of men on strike was
variously estimated at between 700
and 400 workers, union leaders
and company officials disagreelng
on the figures.
Although strikers gathered at
street corners, booing and shouting
at strike breakers, there was no
violence during the morning.
The city's $4,000 residents, react
ing calmly to strike which had
threatened for several months, found
the situation one of mild diversion.
Hope for an immediate settlement
of the trouble was blasted today
when directors of the Employees Mu-
tual Benefit Association refused TO
meet with officials of the striking
unions.
The American Federation of Labor
claimed 1000 workers on strike
about one-third of the total en-
ployes.
Pickets were on patrol duty at
the car barns, but caused little diff
flculty as the trolleys rumbled out
of the barns with protective cover
ingS of heavy wire mesh.
The union had threatened that
enough "key men" would strike at
the huge Lakeside Power plant Of
the electric company to disrupt
light and power Service-a paralyz-
ing blow to industry and residents
but service continued today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
Hourly Temperatures

Mr.. Dewing referred to Norma's
talk with detective Stokes in the
presence of her minister father. the
Rev. Norman Brighton, and a police
stenographer.
Mrs. Millen, you went to Fitch
burg with your husband and Faber
and got out of the car and YOU were
to be the lookout" Mr.. Dewing per-
sisted.
No, I didn't" Norma answered.
She was questioned at length con-
corning a note, found in her apart
ment, which allegedly indicated that
she and Murt divided Murt's share
Of the Needham loot at S2,100 each.
Norma said she didn't know what
the figures in the note meant: she
wrote it at Murt's direction and did
not question him about it.
She admitted that their departure
for New York following the Need
ham crime was hurried. I was told
by Murt to hurry" she. said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
Norma Near Collapse as She Denies
Acting as Lookout in Fatal H0Idup

istered at a New York hotel, while
supposedly fleeing from the killer
bandit she later married.
The second interruption came
after she had denied telling state
detective John F. Stokes that her
husband. his brother Irving and
Abe Faber engineered the Para
mount theater robbery in Lynn,
where a bill poster was slain. She
also had denied telling Mr.. Stokes
that two Boston cab drivers, who
were then or trial charged with the
Lynn murder, were innocent.
Mr.. Dewing sought to show that
she not only was present when the
Fitchburg crime occurred, but acted
as lookout.
Norma denied. also, that she was
with the trio when they attended
the Boston automobile show. 1t
was there. little later. that they
stole the state police exhibit, COL
lection of veal ons they used in the
Needham bank robbery and MUIR
ders Of Feb. 2.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
CITY TRUSTS DEPOSITS WASTED.
CHARGES BANK PR0BER IN REPORT
Suit Asking S500,000 From Directors Filed
Within Hour of Time Alvah j. Fuckers
Findings Are Presented Court.
Officers of Closed Institution Accepted
Funds While knowing Firm Was
Insolvent Investigator Says.

Conduct of affairs of the defunct City Trust Company
was criticised severely in report filed today with Circuit
Judge Earl R. Cox by Avah j. Rucker special investigator
for the court in bank matters.
Within an hour of the time Mr.. Fuckers report was
filed directors of the bank sued for 100000 by
Oren S. Hack receiver the ground that illegally they had
declared dividends of the banks capital and
Just before Mr.. Hacks suit filed, Judge Cox had
assured Mr. Rucker whose report also contained fortnight
criticism of Prosecutor Herbert Wilson's action in bank mat
ters that it would be given to Criminal Judge Frank P
Baker, to Prosecutor Wilson and to the new grand jury
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
PACE HIRED FOR
YEAR, IS CLAIM
|. u. Trustees Deny Former
Coach Had 3-Year Grid
Contract.

Three Indiana university trustees
testified today in federal court that
Harlan (Pat) Page, former I. U.
football coach, had been hired on a
one-year contract and not a three
year contract as Mr.. Page alleged in
his $4,000 damage suit against the
university for alleged breach of con-
tract.
p The trustees. Benjamin Long,
Logansport; Judge Orc Wiledrmuth,
Gary, and Charles M Meier Fl.
Wayne, said that Mr.. Page had been
notified by the athletic board of
controls that his services we're "un-
satisfactory" previous to their fail
ure to renew the contract.
They further testified that the
three-year term had been mentioned
unoficially to Mr.. Page, because
President William Lowe Bryan
would consent only to one-year
contract. -........ .....
Later the trustees testified they
had approached Mr.. Page saying
O1lQO ~ WOO1O NC ikJOSO4O4C w SAaAAO
a three-year contract. After de-
liberation, MIR. Page signed the one
year agreement, the trustees al
legged.
They said also that they had criti-
cised Mr.. Page for angling for other
jobs while serving the university.
Coach Page testified yesterday that
he signed a contract calling for a
salary of $4,000 the first year, $4,000
the second year and $1,000 the third
year as coach. However, alumni
contributed funds which brought his
salary to $4,000, $1,000 and $4,000
yearly, he testified.
Asked if he knew it was a vio-
lation of Western Conference rules
for a coach to receive extra
money, Mr.. Page denied knowledge
of the rule.
Mr.. Page claimed that it was a
mystery just where the money
came from, but that it always was
paid at a Bloomington bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
is RELEASED
IN SWINDLINC CASE
England Must RearreSt Him
on New Warrant.
BIZ limited Press

By CHtted Press
CHICAGO, June 26.-John (Jake
tn BarbeD Factor, wanted in Eng
land on charges of swindling Brit
ish investors out of several million
dollars. today won his release from
the Dekalb county jail at Sycamore,
Ill. on a writ of habeas corpus.
Thu writ was issued by Federal
Judge Evan Evans under a recent
federal court ruling that a warrant
for eXtradition must be served
within sixty days after a defendant S
arrest at the request of foreign
authorities.
The action of Judge Evans made
it necessary for British authorities,
if they continue their efforts to re-
turn Factor to England for trial, to
rearrest him on new warrant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26

Reeves Brown. 26-year-old print
er indicted yesterday in the
Irving w. Lemaux blackmail plot,
today confessed to detectives that
he attempted two years ago to eX-
tort $4,000 from Chester Jackson,
head Of the Standard Grocery chain,
it was announced at police head
quarters.
Detectives said Brown, resident
of Beech Grove, admitted he threat
ened Mr.. Jackson that if the $4,000
were not forthcoming, Mr.. Jackson
would die as did his father, Lafay-
cite Jackson, who was shot down by
Louis Hamilton and Vernon Witt in
a robbery.
Brown detailed intricate and lurid
instructions for wrapping the money
in red paper, going to the general
delivery window at the postof1ce
for further instructions and getting
the final letter from the cashier of
4 downtown cafe.
The threatening letters were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-26
LEGION OFFICIAL is
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Truck Rams Car; City Man
Dies; 5 Hurt.
BIZ Times lSpecinL

By tmeS SpeciGt
RUSHVILLE, Ind, June 90
Struck by a truck while he was
changing a tire in U. S. Road So,
four miles from here, James Earl
Mitchell, SO, of 1114 North Butler
avenue, Indianapolis, was killed to-
day.
Five other persons were injured,
one seriously. Ray Monte Beville,
IS, of 2029 Park avenue, Indianap-
oils, was sent to Robert Long hos
pital suffering from back and hip
injuries.
A heavy truck owned by the
Bates Transportation Company and
driven by Pat O'Day, Chicago,
crashed into the parked automobile
O'Day was arrested and held pend
ing investigation
The others injured are Charles
Meyers and Mrs. Mary Meyers, Co.
lumbus, O., and Miss Martha May
Meyers and Miss Lucille Hurd, In
dianapolis.
Mr.. Mitchell was a finance officer
for the American Legion and had
been employed by the Legion three
years. He is survived by the widow,
Lottie Mitchell and a 4-year- old
son, Robert.