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jigsj'w m iynii.1 Wi'wisijyfewwiil aw.fii" WffUlMWWfJaM POSTOFFICE PEEVED AT JAKE LOEB FOR SPRINGING "POISON PEN" YARN sticking fast for him. A delegation of former.students held a mass meet ing and voiced their belief in his innocence. Jacob M. Loeb, school boss of Chi cago, seems in a fair way to get in bad with tfie government It's all about the Heil case and the publicity that Loeb got from it. When Mrs. Marie Moore, 1115 E. 58th St., began to get filthy letters and when her friends and employers were warned against her in other notes, she took the letters to the postal officials. That was in July, and Gen. Jas. E. StuarJ, postal inspector, set federal sleuths on the case. They figured John Heil, principal of the Morgan Park high school, was the man who sent the letters. But they wanted to make sure and get a good case on him if he was guilty. They were ready to spring their evidence this week. There was a lot of surprise, therefore, in the Federal building Sunday morning, when the Heil story broke. Jacob Loeb had called Heil to his office, accused him of writing the "poison pen" letters, got Heil to ad mit it and then bullied him into signing his name to a resignation from his high school job and then called in the morning paper report ers. Loeb got a write-up as a de fender of a woman's name. But the story was sprung in Loeb's office and the investigation of federal sleuths was practically ruined. The postoffice dep't hesitates about pros ecuting Heil now because the papers have printed the story. , The dep't of justice does not want to be trailing the newspapers and the president of the school board in its prosecutions. Meanwhile, Heil has disappeared. Gen- Stuart, in charge of the in vestigation, had a lot of things to say about "publicity seekers" today. He thinks the case of the govern ment is ruined by the midnight ex pose in Loeb's office. Out in Morgan Park, where the principal has always lived, they are The postmaster of Morgan Park, David Herriot, said today: "One thing that I observed is its melodramatic aspect the stage set ting is perfect midnight in the of fice of the president of the school board, the woman and her detective present, the president present, the reporters present, the culprit present. "By the way, the culprit is with out friends or an attorney. It is hard to understand all this evidently pre pared unexpectedness. "I have known both Mr. and Mrs. Heil since they came among us 15 years ago, and I simply want to say that from the knowledge of years thd while thing is unbelievable. A tragic mistake has been made somewhere and it will come out. It is certain to. "If there is any frame-up about this case die people of Morgan Park are bound to find it out Mr. Heil's public and private life have been 00 clean all these years to be upset and villified now in this seemingly crazy and incomprehensible fashion." Mrs. Moore issued another state ment last night She backed up her charges. She told 6f her friendship with Heil started when they were teachers in the schools. She said his affection became very ardent after a while. About this time, she says, she told him she was married and didn't want anything to do with him. But she says loving letters and flowers start ed coming to her. Mrs. Moore says she now began to' avoid Mr. Heil. It was then that the letters were sent to her friends and employers. They told people she was a bad wqman and a lurer of men. Mrs. Moore's life was ruined, she declares. She put private detectives on the -ssmisimmummmm