Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 34

TYPO UNION H OPPOSES MAILERS Differences Between Member Groups Aired in Court at Indianapolis. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, December 16.— Political ~disturbances within the executive council of the International Typographical Union were referred to repeatedly in United States District Court yesterday when Charles P. How- ard, president, admitted, without re- luctance, his antagonism to the mailer members of the union. The court hearing was on a suit of | the 3,000 maller members, represented | by six plaintiffs, for an injunction against the council to prevent it from taking action in the union's affairs which the mailers assert would be against their interest Testimony centere in policy favored by the “progressive” faction, headed by Howard, : °d the “administration” faction. to Which the other four members of the council be- long. Tghe mailers seek to enjoin the tak on differences {1t will laugh at their fears when they THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, FORD'S OLD-FASHION DANCES START SCHOOL CONTROVERSY By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 16.—Parents of several hundred school children in Dearborn, home town of Henry Ford, are in controversy with the village #chool board over the benefits of the old-fashiond dances sponsored by Mr. Ford. The board has before it a petition signed by more than 200 parents de- anding that the school discontinue the teaching of dancing “in the in- terests of a higher standard of moral- In answer to the protest the | board announces a public exhibition | of the old-fashioned dances, to be held | tonight under the dfrection of in- | structors employed by Mr. Ford. | Characterizing the protest as ridicu- lous, Dr. Edward F. Fisher, president of the school board, said the signers of the petition would be specifically invited to attend. “I am. sure the people who signed see the dances performed,” he sald. Prove Steps Dearborn Pz;'ents Want Classes Halted. So Board Plans Public Exhibition to Are Moral. courts decide whether the school board can continue to countenance the classes despite the objections of the people who pay the expenses of the school.” Mr. Ford’s attitude on dancing was expressed several months ago, when he said that every church in the coun- try should provide a hall for old- fashioned dancing. T George C. Offen Dies at 80. AW, Sask., December 16 - eorge C. Offen, 80, one-time consulting engineer for Sir Hiram Maxim, died yesterday. Offen per- fected the first model of the Maxim I and warning sig sig: those used in this countr; $320.000 HOLD-UP METHODS BARED Confessions Read at Trial! | Show Mail Bandits Copied Style of Eastern Outlaws. By the Associated Pross. CHEYENNE, Wyo, December 16. —Leaders of the gang that held up a Union Pacific mail train near Rock Springs, Wyo., last August and ob- tained bonds and unsigned currency | amounting to $320,000, took their cue from Eastern hold-up men and not the old-time Westerners, who made a specialty of train looting. This was revealed in Federal Court b yesterday in the trial of John Kearns and six others charged with the Rock Springs robbery. In a confession, which was read to the jury, Kearns said he and a con- federate planned the hold-up af! reading of an Eastern mail robbery. iscarding the tactics of the West. ern bad men, who depended on their nerve and their six-shooters, Kearns D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1926. Vand nis confeserate planned and exe: | cuted the Rock Springs hold-up as an “inside job,” confessions read by the prosecution revealed. In a business- like"manner, $2,000 was spent in pre- liminary work. The robbery was pieced together for the jury in confessioms, which jovernment officers testified were ob- talned from Kearns, Jack Madigan, former railway mail clerk, and Ho; ard Barnett. The names of accom- plices were stricken out of eacl fession, but when all were res stories dovetailed. Madigan admitted in_his confession that he left. the side door of his mail car unlocked, and when two gunmen the entered permitted himself to be bound and gagged. The mail clerk said he had attempted to back out of the deal, but was told the “people who were putting up the money had spent about $2,000 and wanted action.” Admits Entering Car. Barnett confessed he was one of the two men who entered the mall car, and a postal inspector testified John Kamariotis, one of the defend- ants, admitted he also helped In the actual hold-up. Kearns, in his conféssion, said two men accompanied him to Hanna on the night of the robbery, and that these two men boarded the train. 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The other members of the council are defendants in the suit in their capacity as officers of the union, although they are friendly to the plaintiffs. be discontinue fon. | membership of the First Evangelical Church | Church of Dearborn, among whom it | was circulated. disapproved nces the classes would | petition originated with _the and the First Methodist Dr. Frederick C. Krumling, former pastor of the Evangelical Church, who has an 8-year-old daughter attending the public schools, called the petition to the attention of the school board and insisted some action on it be taken. Asserting he believed dancing has no place In a school curriculum, he added: “I am convinced my daughter would be harmed rather than benefited by attending the classes. If the petition is ignored, I shall try to have the LT ST T Tl e - COLU MBIA New Process RECORDS —make appropriate Christmas presents. THOMPSON BROS. Furniture—Stoves—Floor Coverings 1220-26 Good Hope Rd. Linc. 556 Anacostia, D. C. 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