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FOUND, PREFERS 10 ‘REMAIN AMERICAN ecaiiasipinnens Self-Made Chicago Man Says Title of U. S. Citizen Is Greatest in World. WON HIS WAY UNAIDED. Traced by State Department on Request of British Authorities, CHICAGO, March 10 (Associated Fress).—Cytil Woodward Clubley Armstrong, self-made Chicago law- yer, whose struggle for a living has been onlv moderately successful, was informed to-day that he is heir to an Baglish earldom. The news had little effect on him, he calmly informed newspaper borters that he already possessed the @Féatest tiie in the world—that of an American citizen—and desired 20 other. Mr. Armstrong received a communi. cation which had been sent to friends. of his by the Consular Department in Washington in response to queries from relatives in India asking that he be located. He produced many lette amd documents to prove that he was the man sought, but said he knew nothing of the title he is supposed to have inherited, for he became sep- arated from his family when a child jd had worked his way up to mem- bership in the Bar through night schools. Previously he sold news- Paper subscriptions for a_ living, worked on Canadian farms and finally became a reporter on the Quincy (Ill.) Whig-Journal. ‘The letter asking that Mr. Arm- strong be traced was written by > ran Phoneson, British Vice Consul in at Nairobi, East Africa, au te Department at Washington, stated that the Armstrongs resent had fallen heir to an Earldom, that Cyril was the immediate heir and that his younger brother, Capt. St. John Shelverton, was secking Cyril, The Tetter was forwarded from Washing ton to Mayor P. J. O'Brien of Quincy, who located Armstrong in Chicago. 5 know nothing of the title," said Armstrong to-day. “But I do kadw that I am the Armstrong sought. If the reports of a title prove correct—well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. “I came to this country, became an American citizen, fought my way up to.a position of respect in this com- munity, and it will always be fore- most in my mind that I hold the Greatest title in the world—that of American citiam. ‘This is a bad day for any other title and 1 have no @osire to change. “My father's name was, I think, ‘William George Armstrong. He died ‘when I was so young I don't remem- ber it. 1 two younger brothers— William Lawrence, and Capt. St. John Shelverton. My mother remarried and St. John took his stepfather's name. “When I was about nine years old my uncle, Lawrence Hennesy Clubley rmstrong, a noted civil engincer, me to England from India re I was born about 1880. I went t@ scrool at St. Mark's, Windsor, Hngland, and Quernmore House at Bromley. | didn't make much prog- ress in my studies, so my uncle sent me to Canada when | was sixteen. “I worked for William and James Johnson on a farm near Norwich, ‘Ontario, for two years, Then 1 went to a farm near Stratford, and later Yyeame subscription solicitor of the ratford Beacon 1 came to the inited States then, going to work as cub reporter in Quincy when | was bout twenty-one. I determined to be a lawyer and went to night school, finally being sudmitted to the bar in 1908. I came Mo Chicago in 1913 and have been ractising law here since." » Mr. Armstrong learned of his sec- »nd brother's death in France in the wer through the communications re- a once in the Canadian Army, but was rejected. He’ showed certificates ” support of these statements. He had not heard from any mem- ver of his family for about ten years he said, his uncle's last address be- ag Edinburg... Scotland. “1 ame iaking no investigation,” he Waid. ‘‘l im satisfed to be an Ameri- If they really have a title and Wpstate for me, as it is reported— don't know what I'll do. 1 claim 0 title now ——_—. OSED AS DETECTIVE , BUT HAD NO SHIELD fest Side Court Attendant Fr suite of Prince Mahomed Ali Ibrahim, son of desert kings, ReweGAbera PaNOne nephew of the Khedive of Egypt, your job? Is it true? boxing amateur and promoter of professional pugilism in Alexan- eye was empurpled and all but closed and beefy red about the aioiarourd: swollen lids. The rest of the face seemed familiar in a distant ‘By the|way, memory. little theatre in Southern France and the entrance on the darkened portly band of wide-hipped per- sons patterned on the lines of the Columbia burlesque circuit, all wearing the uniforms of American M. P.’s and carrying ydtd-long night sticks. One realized at once that one had seen Mr, McClosky before, and said so. x “Wheretell?"" said Mr. McClos- ky, turning the deeply shadowed window of his soul full on one and squinting through it with an suspicion. just off the Intendance, in the Opera Comique, the fall of 1918," he was told. = “you had a part in your own “When do we see the show; you were the American the party; and you had a bout with the boob husband and at the trated Hin Plan to Escape. But for the alertness of a West Side @urt attendant, Francis X. MeMorrow Bnty-nine, of No 205 We charged with impa Borals of a child, might be free to-day Bead of locked up in default of $5,000 Me was jn the prisoners’ pen yester- Ay, and while the patrolman who had [rested him was telephoning to the Py ividren's Society, he got past the on the statement that he was a tive, When ie told Forbes Birch, Attendant at the outer gate, e thing, Birch, failing to rec 4 a policeman, ca his shield, As he fadn't on back in the pen within two min- -_——e BOORD TRAIN RUN TO BOSTON, peed record between Now York and Princess Mary films. The run the Grand Central ‘Terminal to the miles, was made Jght minutes, special consiated of an clectric mo- f and two care and cost $900, MeClosky hoarsely, gu over the roofs of M “Not much’ is right! The Prin would starve to death for newspi 80 “I travel forthe “The most fascinat- study of mankind ing study of American rather than for the mankind is the study scenery, I love the of American women.” human race.” eseeuve “Half past 2 by the “The Prince would darn clock and lunch starve to death for all ordered at 1, What you newspaper guys chance has a guy re.” got” THE EVENING WORLD, Oooo “Always Interested in American moving pic- tures I -made up my mind I would go where they make them.” semen pte meByC! you some of you won't wet_to’ see him until aiter he’s gone,” aed “I certainly will en- tertain in Hollywood. It will be a great priv- ilege to do s0.” “Nobody's going to take my job! I'm go- ing to stick around, I like it,” FRIDAY, MARCH Prince Ibrahim, Nephew of Khedive, and Blink McClosky, His Social Secretary pS SSS Sb eesbessatesseseene Seseeoeesesosl “By the time I reach “They (the American California I shall have women) are beantiful the whole country for in body and mind and a background for the in the grace of spirit.” people I meet.” “Does the Prince “To-morrow _morn- to-morrow eve- than L do, But lookit!” ning, any old time i a week, i see pereverypeay.” speak English? Better ing, Prince Mahomed Ibrahim And His Pugilistic Cicerone Submit to Dual Interview ; oe won't get to see him By Lindsay Deniso he’s gone. NOW what?” At the door of the four-room “Too busy vem," rasped dria, on the sixth floor of the “They said Biltmore Hotel, stood a stocky the man who had the job before figure with a head set on it as you had knocked squat as the compass box on a iRight," aald Mr. binnacle. with a suddenness which almost “His Highness's Secretary, Mr. made one flinch McClos said the bellhop. “And that you h “Right!” said the binnacle head hol wen Okan nlon with a grating crash like a barrel Guiitgot! the dob sourselts of glass overturned. He stepped “Right!"* barked back and one saw that his left Closky. “In two blows struck; kind stage, to "sneak music,” of a that it meant most tearfully now it's two France?"" ect of murderously ferocious “At the head of the Judaique, i aved: in Bordeaux, in I’ morrow boxing champ who was hired by a plied. “'T'-morrow guy who had been making love to old time for a week a married lady and was sore be- to sce everybody use the husband interrupted everybody — wants finish let him knock you for a lis gool so's to give the Frogs a Setter than laugh at the American champ. McClosky with — hearty frankness. Mr, MeClosky, who had been As he turned listening and revolving his head elliptically as though his neck had a socket between his mighty shoulders—even a8 a battered pull terrier might observe a fly “Thank you, very kind,"* on the wall—flapped a corrobo: tive hand | youth with the “you're right,’ he said, as one | razor-edged sm who would do battle on the in our young men stant if you ventured to suggest from the tenemen he were wrong. “You're dead the public schools and right, But NOW what do you come leaders of the bench want? he shouted huskily. He and legislators was growing hoarser every min- There was little to ute, “Talk fast. Lookit!"* With birth about him. larg’ zically ookit! Half-past two by ing the dam clock and lunch ordered for one. What chance has a guy ky; lool got open eye—w “Not much," one said cau- the clock. tiously ot even when one has “How do you an appointment for 2.30." your trave “You're right!"' shouted Mr, “Swift ob: careful, tt 1 you ular things t ore's I travel fo per BUNS care. many of you, some of you kind rather than « nid over and o' the most fascinating study of American women, They are & body and mind and in those things which are less tan- gible than mind—it would be easy to say soul “Did you sce that stuff in the how you got “What did they say?" who was secretary before him." ‘wan! Next?" rd about it and knocked out this second man, cities who ‘movie types,’ but ordinary ever average Amer ing to be most inter and one thing more, nobody’ ing to take my job! I'm going to ho what do you cit thought the F n twinkle of delight. We One was reminded of a the Prince when with him “Altus, aid reek or Arab ot but the Prince wasn't strong for that title stuff." but : “But lookit!* thumb backward “Lunch ordered for 1 0'¢ was that holler When do we eat? “Right!” he answered, and with a husky shout the pungent smoke chens and a clatter of many mess tns swinging from the hands of gathering young of camp kit- “Right! When do we paper did it, Wante: » for yourself “Perhaps,” said Prince Ma i Ibrahim, ‘had bo hand our five-round bout this zon the jaw instead of on > left eye"*——— he chuckled at . McClosky's left eye and went in to his de Does the Prince gard the clock 4 5 came from the other Out came a s y has made boy's in = four hours per e school. thumb he indicated the lack of confidence clock, which was at half-past Another two that if she now failed to send the grum TERANS One hundred wounded World War 1 as vation? zing out the ground you nhattan there is daylight mag Mahomed All, “I like n ra The landscape, the Nitecture, the great manufactures, are the back- 1 lands, Mankind is man's like the variations in inating study. nd 1 r again to- mankind “is study of au- I suppos of spirit but le “L have always been interested in the moving pictures which have come from this country to mine. up my mind to come 1 cun see them made and see the people who make them. ‘an think of nothing more sat- to a secki” after beauty ywhere, and y inf your And by the tim have your country for a background and after American rticular, than to go ke your picture! I reach California 1 the people I the trains and in the are not what you call cans—it is & right.” wi so mufmuringly that till hear, faintly, a fire ing up his English nderbilt the Prince likes his MeClosky and is fully of the novelty te be found by the world in contemplat- ing a young man with an income 200,000 a y vy nd breezy and so loyal a h so un- you entertain at Holly- but certainly,’ said the “Tam su at opportunity—a lege to do so0."" Right," sald Mr. MeCtosky here will be parties, Real par- es! But no Fy t that down. Nix on the it will be a great privi- ty Arbuckle s{uff! ty si stuff! And sa: your editor to get it into the paper about it's not being right I ur fulse teeth. They had to print that about me this right There was only one took at ‘em ed lune eae FAILED TO SEND BOY TO SCHOOL, FINED $2 A fine of $2, which was pald, was imposed by Ma in the Municipal Term Court upon Collivet for failure continuation employed in the jnultigraphing establishment of Mrs. Lelia M sistrate Harri school her son Alfred, Tinsh st 24th Sere Mrs. selese efforts to pre tendanes at the sehe that he received a better her employment. than week he would get Harris told Mrs, Colliy d was brought before in the fine would be $10 or $15 a HBAR SOUSA, noW patients at Seton Hox guests at the first Sor to send to et TEAGHER 50 YEARS IN SCHOOL FETED to Old Schoolmarm. Those who fear that New Y lost or submerg cheered School No. die. ith anniversary of service as again under the te their old teacher an ing resounded with their sor dimmed gaze No. 28 is Makewen teaches in the wrote their lessons back in th if 908, when the future w thime of dreams. After exercise: such as the old boys and the little ino, playing the as fiance La Manna, who pe it service hundreds of time hittle fellow in knee ps wos clieered time and again Witmark, the music p who left No, 28 t lust century to entertain W i over the United St ' ocalist with Russel's © r ing “Dear Old 28." o emu pis The old boys a ned in the chorus and pen through West 40th Str in the rain to listen to r { melody Mr. Heydt, in behalf of the old be No. 2%, presented Miss Makey ) magnificent platinum bar d Phe old teacher helmed when { saluted her, but shen oice her thanks grace ngly, and even the brushin eyes a 1 of her re ‘ ior Edwin W, Douglas, | ‘ tix Makewen said, was 1 t and quietest boys in tt oke of many of the olt | passed into the he muck spoke characte told some seerets ¢ « When Charles A.B mluced Miss Makewer was destined fe ion, But one la B Heydt. Conu Eutions, aud Joseph HL. Mude, “Not what you call MeClosky) had | the movie type, but the jaw in- stead of on the left Americans—it ix going to be interesting.” tor to get it in the paper again that dontt_wear false entertainments Fatty Arbackle stuff! He wants to mong the old boys who ¢ entertainment, Spurs on Legs Tell This Kind OfFlapper’s Age this afternoon— note of pride in old activities to to celebrate the successful ca for His Remarks to > —- A Republican Ladies. BANK INSTRUCTS GIRL WORKERS TO SIMPLIFY DRESS k Institution Pre: Skirt and High V Long Sleeves. BY HEREX-PUPILS Prominent Men Among 60 Who Pay Touching Tribute do spurs on a rooster’s leg oclety woman of + Commissioner of while he was address- Public Markets, cribes Long the Women's SI indicate the ag becoming so big and polyglot that the community spirit of the city has been} April 1 all its women clerks shall young Commissioner “Ah! chorused the J would have been they been at Public at No. 257 West 40th Street, to-day when sixty old and mid- y restricts them from fol- lowing the fashion of the day was any of Newark, st company of the ed men assembled to celebrate men Roostership. ep here would like to teacher In the school of Miss Isabella acher i v know about roosters or chickens—I to tell you."" Men were ineluded in the order, » aforesaid date of them will be permitted to work in his shirt-sloove kewen, Vor three hours the men tay or er-haired in cases where air was still in evidence, we boys e one intoned » foregoing was vouche¢ the school build RODE oO av udline ter and as he emerged from a color but preseribed that Hylan's office 1 girl's school now. Miss was joking » sleeves must be Minas EGomeaA belt must be “iis Dproved HS bill and, if he Boylan foodstuff » why didn't h said it was quite possible that the Mayor used with the skirt it must not be higher than 12 inches from though I don't know didn't favor Both O'Malley und the Mayor de- discussed be- tween them this morning, in Tammany cireles that O'Malley had been called r remarks to the effect that he would support the Boy- in which she began to tr hoys of the west side fifty year >. Into this room at 9 o'clock filed the sixty oll boys headed by City Court Justice (eter Schmuck and Herman A. Heyat the lawyer, who acted as master coremonies, Miss Muakewen was. her desh The girl pupils were grouped about the walls of the roy nd the old boys took their places : the little desks upon whieh they COUPLE FOUND DEAD WITH GAS TURNED ON Kriend Calls and Wife Asphyx . a retired bake marked. the routine of the school in the old days vis fled into the assembly room, At the sembly march, sit formed }, when Miss missed him, “Lf think there have been too many as having said moral coward and I will support this Jet on which « smal! Makewen, between smiles and tears missioner shall be provided with mn adjoining lay across the Modern Girl, Her Knickers, Cigarettes and All, Voted Just Right at Columbia . and galoshes His brother, Isidor Witmark, w! 1 officiated at 11 1 the lit Seniors Approve Her by Big Majority and Resent Use Term “Flapper.” twenty-two, ’. Hassinger of modern girl members of the may add @ hopet senior class at ht of our members answered ‘Do you believe 8 learned from Wucherbockers Lor $200,000 70 HELP: DIER CREDITORS Liquid Assets Now Put at’ $385,000, With Million More “In Sight.” 2 TRIALS NEXT WEEK.» Will Be the First of Cases Started by Banton in Bucketing Inquiry. A donation of $200,000 by Chartes A. Stoneham, owner of the New York, Giants, constitutes more than halt of the Iquld assets with which to pay the creditors of E. H. Dier & Co,, the brokerage house which failed for $1,000,000 in January, This states ment, together with the annotmer- ment of the baseball magnate's gift, was made at a meeting of 100 credit- ors in Bryant Hall last night. Col, Henry D. Hughes and B) Franklin Shrimpton, also associates, f Dier, have contributed $125,000, Securities and cash to the extent of $60,000 at the most completes the amount of money at hand, although about $1,000,000 “is in sight,’ aceord-. ing to Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel . for Manfred W. Ehrich, receiver The trial of three young brokers Tuesday on charges of grand lareeny in the first degree will mark the opem- ing of prosecutions of those indicted in the “bucket shop’ inquiry here. The defendants will be George Mark~: elson, twenty-four; Isadore Friedman, tyenty-three, and Samuel Small. nineteen, * A schedule of the Stock Exchange firm of George W. Kendrick 3d & Zo., filed in Philadelphia yesterday; showed nrsets of $3,666,261 and total liabill- ties of $3,787,600. Personal liabilities of Mr, Kendrick were placed at $604, £68 and personal assets $26,797. Per= sonal Habilities of his partner, C. H. © given as $3,982 and The firm last week le an assignment for the Benefit of its creditors. CHURCH OPENS NURSERY FOR PARKING OF BABIES: Fitth Avena, & to Start In ion Sunday, An innovation, in the form of a ‘Stn: day night nursery for babies will’ hd” established at the Church of ‘the * Heavenly Rest, Fifth Avenue and 43the Street, this sunday night, according to nnouncement made to-day by ithe, Henry V. B, Darlington, regtar, nursery will be maintained in the assembly room downstairs, = The Rev. Mr. Darlingtow sald “he? hoped that parents who bad been kept away from services on account of hav~ ing to care for their babies would tnkes* advantn, of the opportunity afforded under the new plan, The nursery, ho added, would be in charge of competent persons. ve ————EEEoEE Each and every Bean | Every bean in a can of Heinz Baked Beans is | baked through to the center—mealy, sweet, | wholesome and whole, and easy todigest. Real | oven baking does it. 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