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Show 'Get Rich Quick' Operator Sought by Chicago Cops CHICAGO. Feb. 11 Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings were InsP-tuted InsP-tuted today, before Federal Judge Landla .-gainst R. J. Blschoff Of Chicago, Chi-cago, whose financial operations were said by his creditors to have involved involv-ed hundreds or Chicagoans, mosfiy foreigners. Judge Landla later issued B warrant for his arrest According to three petitioners who hold Qlachoff's note for J 1,000, he has handled hundreds of thousands of dollars of moneV of Chicago's for-dgn-born population during the last two years. It la contended he secured secur-ed money on promise of large returr-i and in sonic Instances actually puld from -10 to 100 per cent interest Blschoff is said to hive posed as i MUivivpr of the Princess Pat Canadian Canad-ian regiment and to have lectured In 1917 in Chicago, Omaha, Donvtr St Louis and otrer western cities, before his real identity was learned |