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7 " "TF"-sip5 JACOB M. LOEB COMPARED TO RUSSIAN OPPRESSOR "- Several hundred young men and iwomen students of the Chicago He brew institute night school met last night and protested against Russia like means employed by Jacob M. Loeb to squelch free speech. - Loeb, a school trustee, is president bf the Hebrew institute, 1258 Taylor st, Chicago's leading Jewish public Institution. Loeb's resignation is demanded. The tactics he has been using in run ning the institute savor too much of the rule of iron in Russia. The brewing storm broke Monday ""night when an incipient meeting of le Labor Defense league was to have been held in the Institute's as sembly room. Carpenters' Local No. "904 had rented the hall. They want--ed to meet to discuss means of de fense for union labor men who are unjustly held in prison. i Those who came to attend the meeting found the doors barred against them. When they demanded 3the right to enter the hall they had rented and paid for, the police were called to disperse them. The labor men held their meeting, but in anoth er hall That evening A. I. Margolis, assist ant superintendent of the institute, was discharged. Margolis had rent ed the halL Loeb gave out a news paper interview attacking Margolis. When the labor men were refused admittance to the Hebrew institute Loeb did not say it was because free speech was obnoxjous. It was an nounced that the objection was that the ones who were going to attend She meeting were mostly not mem bers of the institute. ft The meeting last night was anembers of the institute. Nearly all svere Russian Jews who have not &een In this country longer than a year or two. All of them still re member the Russian knout and the use of the police to prohibit free possible that the American police would disturb a peaceful meeting that was not treasonable nor even Socialistic. The night students attempted to hold the meeting at the institute last night, but were denied admittance So they went to West Side hall, Tay lor and Center av There they for mulated the following demands: N That Loeb be censured for his at titude in not allowing the use of the hall for free speech. That Margolis be reinstated. If these are not complied with by next Monday all the night classes will walk out and refuse to enter the in stitute. "It looks too much like Russia when we cannot meet in our own building," said Isador Berman, who presided last night Loeb as a member of the school board has been a bully as well as a reactionary. He represents big busi ness on the board and has tried hia best to browbeat women teachers. o o- FOUR ARRESTED AS RESULT OF LITTLE GIRL'S STORY Detectives sat for hours at the bed side of Helen Byron, 15 years old, :n a South Side hospital last night lis tening to a story the girl had to tell of the three days she was held a pris oner in the home of an unlicensed practicing .physician at 2339 W. 21st st. Following her story "Dr." P. J. Kra kowski. his wife and son, Julius, and John Sumbelski, the wife's brother, were arrested. Helen disappeared three days ago. Acdording to the story she told the police, Bhewent to the Krakowski hntm th eive the "doctor" a messaera of ffrom her mother, who was ill in the Englewood hospitaL There she complained of a head ache. Krakowski gave her a hypo dermic injection and took her into another room, where she lost con sciousness. The Byrons live at 919 W. 350 speech. They did not think it was 1