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JAKE LOEB BLOCKED ACTION STATE'S ATT' Jake Loeb's little plan to disrupt the school system of Chicago has been temporarily checked. that is, unless Jake cares to runafonl of Judge Denis E. Sullivan of the supe rior court Judge Sullivan this co.rning con tinued the plea for an injunction to restrain Loeb from throwing out the merit rule until next Monday. But he did it with the understanding that Jake and his 11 henchmen on the board will not try to drop the teach ers who have incurred their enmity at today's meeting of the school board. Wm. H. Holly, attorney for the two citizens and taxpayers, Swan Nelson and David Rosenheim, who filed the petition, asked that the judge make it imperaive that the school board take no action until the injunction is passed upon. The judge replied that the court's jurisdiction in the matter would nullify any ac tion the board might take. Angus Roy Shannon, representing the school board, said that if the judge would continue the case he would see that the school board did not act until it was decided. The con tinuance was then granted. Att'y Holly characterized the Loeb rule as the "most outrageons step ever taken by a municipal body." Margaret Haley, in commenting on the injunction said: "We believe in doing unto others as they do unto us, but doing it first. State's Att'y Hoyne has stepped into the case on behalf of the school teachers and the parents of Chicago. Last night he served warning on the school board that they must not drop any teachers until the superior court has a chance to bass on Jake Loeb's action in throwing out the merit rule. The entrance of Hoyne now places the state's attorney's office and the city council, as well as the citizens' of Chicago, against Jake Loeb and BY JUDGE SULLIVAN'S Y HOYNE ENTERS CASE the crew of eleven supporters on the board. This speedy action was taken to offset Loeb's plan to drop the teach ers he is reported "out after" at to day's meeting of the full school board. a Hoyne's interest in the case is re ported to have taken the Loeb crowd by complete surprise. It is rumored that some of the "faithful eleven" are already showing signs of weak ening and deserting Jake. The direct charge is made in the petition that "certain members ol the board of education," blocked in their efforts to get rid of "certain teachers" by the decision of the ap pellate court holding the Loeb rule No. 1 put into effect last September illegal, have changed the rules of the board of education so that, they might refuse re-election to certain teachers "for personal and other rea sons." The petition also charges that the "certain members of the board of ed ucation" have already made out a list of those teachers who are to be dropped and are holding that list secret It is also cited that Sup't Shooo has reproved almost every one 1 the 7,800 teachers now employed in the public schools, but that the ma jority are secretjy cutting from the list submitted by Loeb all those they desire to drop, regardless of whether the "teachers omitted are efficient or inefficient." Jake Loeb refused to discuss tho filing of the petition. Mt Carmel, III. Mrs. Isaac Reed was killed and husband seriously in jured early today when cyclone swept Allendale, 111. Considerable property damaged. New York. Churchill's famous "Lobster Palace" partly destroyed, by fire early today