Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1929, Page 24

21 % EGYPTIAN WOMEN SEEK EQUAL RIGHTS h‘ow.‘ Are Unable to Select | Own Husbands, Says Tells of Egypt Y. M. C. A. Worker. Peyptian woman have movement for “equal right. but have failed so far to gain the right to choose their own husbands or to over- | come other traditional barriers to emancipation, according to Wilbert B. | Smith, senior ‘secretary of the Y. M C. A.'in Egypt, who is in Washington to confer with local Y. M. C. A. offi- cials, A recent court decision, he states, upheld the contention that a single woman of marriageable age has no legal right to the disposal of her own person in® marriage, this being the pre- rogative of the senior male member of ber family. | Praise Is Paid Atwell | Mr. Smith has given officials of the Iocal association a detailed report on | started a WILBERT B, SMITH. Russian Lumber Exports Gain. MOSCOW, (#).—Russian lumber to ‘'THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 15, 1929—PART ONE. NEW PENAL CODE RULES IN MEXICO |Radical Reforms in System of Jurisprudence Become Effective Today. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 14.—The | new federal penal code, abolishing the death sentence and the jury system. and providing other radical reforms, will be- | | come_effective tomorrow in the federal | district and the territories. | The code was drawn up and promul- gated under special powers granted by Congress to provisional President Portes Gil. Because the constitution gives the | states autonomy in such matters, the code does not apply to them unless they | | choose to substitute it for the existing | state la The code stipulates that there shall be no punishment for the slaying of & mate caught in an act involving the slayer’s honor, or for the slaying of the | other party to the act, so long as the | slayer has not before taken a life for | | der the new code. 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