Grand Rapids Leader, The (Newspaper) - February 5, 1920, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin THE GRAND RAPIDS LEADER FIFTH YEAR NO GRAND RAPIDS WISCONSIN THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5 PRICE THREE DEATH ENRIGHT CAUSES FEUDS FRIENDS READY DEATH PROBABLY BE A NUMBER OF DEATHS BEFORE MATTER IS SETTLED By Associated Chicago Feb among cago gunmen and labor union to avenge the murder of Mossy En- right chief of the and ed of the gunmen today hinged upon police efforts to apprehend suspects before the dead man's friends found them and cancelled the crime in their own way The call for the Enright clan had gone out the police said and war and murder was imminent There probably will be ten or more killings before the caught the police declared Decide Fate fate was decided many weeks ago and gunmen shadowed him birling their time until Tuesday night They contents of a shot gun into his body as he sat in his auto in front of his home Enright was the 23 victim of cago labor feuds MOTT WOOD START WORK ON BUILDING CONTRACTORS STAR T CON- TWO BUILDINGS Work has been started by M C Jacobson contractor on the Mott Wood creamery and warehouse The first work is trie garage which will building and the Chambers building which the creamery company recently acquired A I Chambers former owner of the building does not give possession until March at which time the re- of that building will start Mott Wood have extensive plans for the remodelling of the Chambers building They will place their offices on the second floor and on the ground floor will have the show rooms and rooms and creamery The present building will be used for cold storage Five years ago Mott Wood ed construction on their present ing and five years ago to the day work started on the enlargement plan LINCOLN HIGH WILL FRIDAY LOCAL FIVE ARE DETERMINED TO BE VICTORS The local Lincoln High school five will meet the Stevens Point high school five ir a game that promises to go down in history as a glorious defeat or a large funeral Stevens Point is an old of Grand Rapids and if the game is anything like it promises to be the talk will equal that concerning the World war The Scout teams will play for natch honors as a preliminary WANTS BERGER TO SERVE TEN YEAR TERM SCHEME TO SEIZE LEGATION FRUSTRATED VIENNA BROKER ROBBED OF RUBIES Vienna Feb Vienna money broker was robbed of rubies the other day in fa political plot to obtain control of the Ukrainian tion here The story as worked out by the police is aa good as a play The scheme was the familiar con- game of inducing the broker to violate the law and of seizure of the money by criminals disguised as gendarmes To Buy Rubles A supposed Ukranian general re- cently arrived in Vienna and ed with a money broker to buy up to rubles It is illegal in Austria to deal in foreign money or to have it in possession and all foreign exchange is done through authorized banks The broker agreed to have the amount in hand on a tain day He lived and his business in a hotel On the appointed afternoon but a little ahead of time a man in the uni- form of a Ukranian Colonel called on the broker and saluting said he had come for General X's money They sat down to a table to check the money when the door was opened and two gendarmes walked in and placed both under arrest on the charge of possessing and dealing in foreign money The broker begged and protested and finally was appear in court the following day his record being taken with the greatest care and particulars But the Colonel's protests were unavailing ed and invoked his nationality in vain The two policemen gathered up the money counted it and giving a told the to appear promptly before Then taking the Colonel they left up to that the Colonel and the two gendarmes were fakers and he had been robbed of some rubles Swindlers Found The Vienna police is efficient in this kind of thing and in a day or two had gathered in two of the swindlers but not the one with the money ing on the case they finally ed that the money was to be used for political ends The plan according to the police reports was a plot to seize the Ukranian legation here by an opposing political faction get session of the records and seals and the existing government a plot of the present led state of affairs in eastern Europe The legation however had wind of it and was prepared for whatever might happen The this is the second plot to the same end LEE IS REVOLVER CHAMP By Peter P Carney Some ago when we began chronicling the doings of shooters we asked who was the brat all-round shot in the United States and the universal answer Lee And we are about convinced that the answer is correct as everyone in Birmingham Ala knows him about the busiest youne man in that town but no matter how much business he has to attend to be always finds time to shoot and he shoots everything from a revolver to a pump gun He won the small bore rifle of the United States so often that he stopped and his records with the small bore gun are not likely to ever be excelled Just as soon as Lee becomes proficient in one sport he tries something and in 1919 he won the Revolver and Pistol of America and took third place in the Individual Military id Fire Revolver championship of the United States These facts just became known therefore we could not you sooner Besides these wins Lee the double target trapshooting championship of next promises to win the single championship PROHIBITION CUTS ARRESTS ATTORNEY CLYNE BRINGS SUITE BEFORE COURT PEALS By Associated Press Chicago Feb Attorney Charles S Clyne brot suite in the court of appeals today to have Victor L Berger convicted socialist con- gressman sent to to serve out his ten years sentence Prison Immediately j In his brief Mr declared Berger tried to perpetrate fraud on the court and should be sent to prison immediately The fraud charge is based on new evidence that while out on bail under the promise to refrain from all such activities Berger took part in a in- duce socialists to oppose conscription and the war Berger's appeal from the sentence passed by Judge J K Landia is now pending in the Circuit Court of peals A of our college boys went over the Boches la some parts of Jamaica it is not unusual to see green GERMANY AND ALLIES AT CRITICAL POINT LIST OF ACCUSED GERMANS WILL BE SENT DIRECT TO BERLIN i Bv Associated Press Paris Fab between that Allied Powers and Germany seem to have arrived at a crisis as a result of the extradition The Berlin cabinet is reported in don dispatches to have expressed thru Gustav Noske Minister of De- fense Similar to the Allied Powers Baron von Lesner left for the German capitol last night Send List Direct The list of Germans accused of violation of the law of war will be sent to Berlin direct by the council of ambassadors It is pointed out that the measures intended to com- pel Germany to carry out the extra- dition clauses of the Versailles treaty will be adopted but there is no tion as to their nature London advices state that des minister of National Service and Reconstruction in the British Cabinet has declared in an address at Andover yesterday that Holland might be re- quired to put former Emperor liam on some island out of Europe Whether he expressed the view of the German government is not known MRS HENRY EDWARDS The funeral of Mrs Henry wards who passed away at the consin Veterans Home at Waupaca the forepart of the week will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at Funeral Chapel Rev Ludwig officiating and burial will be made in Forest Hill Cemetery Dr J H Snook of Columbus 0 the editor of per created a new world record in winning the Military Rapid Fire Championship of the States Revolver Association with a score of 651 The previous worlds record was 631 This event was at 50 yards out- doors standard American target 75 shots were fired in strings of five Fifteen seconds were allowed for each string the arm and hammer being down at the command of fire Here is the result of the ships of Revolver Championship of America Capt T K Lee 463 D J Gould Dr C W Wahrer Pistol Championship of America T K Lt R C Capt P Northcott 453 Individual Military Championship of America Dr J H G M McCutcheon 623 Capt T K Pocket Revolver Championship of America C F Dr J H Snook 209 A M Poindexter 207 While oh the subject of Pistol ing it is well to bring in something about the pistol shooting at the tional Rifle Matches A P Lane of Norwalk Conn won the National match with a score of 293 and the Greenwich Conn Pistol team of which Lane was captain won the team match with the wonderful score of 50 points better than the second team This team ed the service teams completely Lane the winner of the pistol match won the worlds m the Olympic games in 1912 MORE SPEEDERS THAN ARRESTED FOR CHIEF PAYNE MAKES REPORT There were fewer arrests this year than ever before The cause of the decline in arrests is attributed to the coming of prohibition Mayor Briere stated today that in the past the lice docket was made up most often of those charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct and that scarcely now do the police make an arrest oh and disorderly conduct charges resulting from drink- ing in Lead 1 In the list of offenses lodged arrested the speeders hold by one fifteen arrests having been made for speeding while only taken into tody following is the report made city To the Honorable Mayor and Com- mon Council of the City of Grand have the honor of submitting my annual report of the operations of department for the year ending Dec 31 1919 j As a while peace and good order j has prevailed the city during I the past year I Attached you will find tabulated statement of all work performed by this department In conclusion I wish to thank his i honor and the Honorable Council the members of the Police and Fire i Commission for the many favors shown myself and the members of I this department respectfully R S Chief of Police Roster of Department R S Payne Chief W A Berg Patrolman James Howlett Patrolman Louis Wilbur J Berard Patrolman j Arrest For Offenses Assault 8 I Assault I Abusive language 2 Abandonment minor child 1 Burglary 3 Cutout Driving over fire Disorderly conduct 4 Forgery 2 Indecent language 2 Larceny Operating car while Riding bicycle on Reckless driving 5 Statutory offenses 3 Selling liquor to to blacklisted Selling adulterated food 1 Short Speeding Vagrancy 1 Arrested for outside officers 14 LATE WIRE NEWS STEEL CO VAULT LOOTED New York Feb vault of the Pittsburg Steel Company in the Equitable Building was looted last night by burglars it was learned day A large sum in securities was stolen The Equitable Building which is in the heart of the financial district the New York branch of the Federal Reserve Bank CASE GIVEN TO JURY New York Feb case against Ben Gitlow former Bronx Assemblyman charged with criminal anarchy was given to a jury in the Supreme Court today The charge was based on anarchists who ed to advocate the overthrow of the government by force which were printed in the Revolutionary age and publications in which Getlow was in- TO OUST GOVERNMENT Saloniki Feb viki have fixed May first as the date of the conflict by which the present in that country is to be according to Sofia dispatches which tell of the seizure of viki documents there 230 Communists have been taken in Sofia 35 at and 300 at Plevna Total 116 Arrests made as Payne 45 23 POSTPONE PROM Madison Feb of the University Prom which Was to have been held Friday evening jr 13 has come as a result of orders of j the State Board of Health that it to MA of persons given night i 111 ti would be unadvisable to hold the 47 patients in ison with 21 deaths already reported from the epidemic the health feel that no held at the present time EUGENE BISBEE DEAD Word has been received in the city announcing the death of Eugena bee who passed away at his home in Merrill The deceased was n resident of Vesper and well known in this city 1 Fire alarms turned Value of property lost and stolen 1 recovered Value of property lost or stolen and not recovered children looked after for j schools 42 i It is denied Congress has done nothing as both parties have been fully occupied the buck DEAD 92 YEARS letter addressed to the composer Beethoven was re- in Vienna the other day from a woman in the provinces She wrote she had recently heard some of his music and was anxious o her daughter un- der Irs t The postal delivered the letter to the in which Beethoven lived and where he died 92 years ago The concierge said no such man resided there so the postman sent It to the dead letter office NEGRO PURCHASES BUILDING Nashville old building in Cedar Street here in days one of the largest slave kets in Tennessee and in later years the site of one of the South's most widely known saloons and gambling houses is to be converted into a ing picture theater for negroes It has been purchased by a wealthy gro real estate dealer who as a boy was employed as for the gambling house on Sundays to give warning of impending raids by the police MORE IMPROVED HORSES Improved horses will increase in exact ratio to the decrease of stallion selling sharks and grafters Many newspapers publishing Hints to Most useful hint to a lot of em would be about and costs RED CROSS GIVES AIDS TO VICTIMS PERSONS MADE LESS BY DISASTERS Thirty nine disasters causing death to 650 persons injury to and property losses totalling were reported to the American Red Cross and assistance requested during 1919 according to a report made lic by National Red Cross ters in Washington Fifty thousand persons were made homeless by these disasters and it was among these homeless and the in- jured that the American Red Cross did it effective work Devastating Disaster The most disaster was the flood and tornado at Corpus Christi Texas in September in which 200 persons were killed and sands made homeless The report stated that f was expended by the Red Cross in im- mediate relief work following these disasters The emergencies included seven severe storms two earthquakes six floods ten fires and explosions three mine disasters two race riots a motor accident and five shipwrecks and marine disasters Aid also was administered to hundreds who ed from loss of crops in Montana Given Assistance During the race riots in Chicago in August milk tickets were dis- and families with 096 individuals were given ance The disaster record shows that the Red Cross is better equipped than ever before to respond to the call for help from districts visited by trophies the preparedness being one of the principal results of the of the extensive peace time program HIGHEST TEMPERATURE 30 DEGREES JAN 4TH MUCH CLOUDINESS IN ALL TIONS OF THE COUNTRY Weather Observer George T Nixon reports the highest temperature was 30 degrees and the lowest 6 On the same date last year the highest was 41 and lowest 6 below In 1904 the coldest was 25 below and the warmest 49 above in 1909 In 1919 the precipitation was 22 inches Character of Day The day was partly cloudy and the wind in the northeast The average depth of snow on the ground was 13.9 inches There has been snow on the ground 71 days Last year at this time the ground was bare of snow The sun rose at a m and set at 5.08 p m Conditions There is much cloudiness in all tions of the country except in the lake region where the pressure is highest to the North Atlantic coast while it has decreased the northwest The weather is generally fair the west and the somewhat higher in the tral and northern plains states No unusually cold weather is indicated for several days at least WORK STARTS ON SULPHITE ILL CONSOLIDATED COMPANY MOVES HOUSES TO MAKE WAY FOR MILL Work on the new sulphite mill the Consolidated Water Power per Company is now underway on property just west of the present mill The exact location will be in the block just north of the electric light plant The petition of the Consolidated company to close streets was made in order to make possible the running of tracks and erecting the mill Materials Arriving It was stated at the company of- fices today that much of the material had arrived and that shipments were received today for the mill and for the construction work of the mill Sand has been hauled to be used in the construction of the foundations Houses on the property are now being moved to make room for work Will Employ 100 Men The new sulphite mill will a wood and grinding room and a screening room for refining the pulp It is estimated that at least 100 more men will be employed in the mill when completed Construction work will be pushed to completion The work is un- der the charge of L A chief engineer for the company his assistant A E Millinston who has just come here to help direct the con- struction and by W J Ule of Point who director of the ations for both the power house con- struction and the sulphite mill CONSIDER REFUSAL PERSONAL INCIDENT MAY INCREASE NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN GERMANY By Associated Press Paris Feb of Baron I von Lesner head of the German peace j delegation to transmit to list of names whose extradition is de- manded by the Allies is considered by Paris newspapers as a personal incident Profit by Refusal There is however evidently a dis- position on the part of editors to ask whether it will tend to increase the national movement in Germany Journals are unanimous in ing that the Allies must profit by the incident and speak reservedly and clearly in exacting entire execution of the clauses of the treaty of sailles WAUSAU RAISES PAY OF CITY Wausau Feb has ed in the general salary raising ment by raising the pay of the officials The mayor is now receiving per year The city clerk re- The matter of a spur track for the city was laid over for future consideration A fee of will be charged for selling alcoholic liquors There will be a of the city and a charge in wards NO TRADE BEFORE DEBTS CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO BE HELD AT GENEVIA By Associated Press Copenhagen Feb way Sweden Finland and Holland have agreed not to resume trade with Soviet Russia before the Russian debt to nearly all these country have been paid or guaranteed it is learned day To Hold Conference Invitations to a conference to be held soon at Genevia will be issued to governments of European countries and the United States which is posed to reach an agreement ing action to be taken on this tion HATCHING TROUT A trout egg takes from 35 to 80 days to hatch according to the of the water THE WEATHER Rain or snow tonight what warmer in east portion day mostly cloudy possibly rain or snow in extreme portion
