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iiii.i II I'l depend on others, or by and by you be able to depend on will anyone March Circulation Averages Daily Post Sunday Rost 428,475 455,168 Gain 0.998 roplen per Cain 50.888 finv over March, 1030. I day over March, 1020. March Circulation Averages Daily Post Sunday Post 428 475 455,168 6.808 coplM per ilain 50.888 day over March. 1030. da.v over March, 1920.

THIRTY-TWO CENTS Ustablxshed 1831 FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1921 Copyright, 1921, by Post Publishing Co. THIRTY-TWO P.AGES—TWO CENTS HUGGER AROUSES FINAL SERVICES FOR BRAINTREE AGAIN Attacks Woman for Second Time HRDDIAl GIBBOUS 1919 COURT in Two er Laymen in Historic Cathedral at Eulogy by Archbishop Glenhon Care EXCHANGES SHOTS WITH POLICEMAN Gunman Is Captured After Carrying on Running Fight ARRESTED FIRST AS SUSPICIOUS PERSON MRS. RACniiJ. COLUMUO, Victim of Braintree a second BRAINTREE, March townspeople were aroused to intense excitement tonight when the information leaked from police circles that Mrs. Rachel Columbo of May was brutally assaulted and beaten eight days ago by the mysterious while she was taking clothes from the lines in the rear of her home.

Conffnned on Column TO WED COUSIN OF HUSBAND Widow 70 and Prospective Groom Is 56 Effected Escape by Tearing Self Out of Coat Ajfter keeping house for 20 years for a cousin of her first husband, who died 32 years ago. Mrs. Matilda Ttodenhiser, 70 years old, will marry the cousin, Jason 56 yearr old, early next week. The couple, who live at 75 Montmorencl street, East Boston, filed marriage intentions at the City Hall yesterday. Despite her 14 years advantage over her husband-to-be, Mrs.

Rodenhiser, plump, rosy cheeked, and alert In every way, appears to be five or 10 years younger than Rodenhiser. She came here to keep house for Rodenhiser when he removed from T.unenburg, Nova Scotia, £0 years ago. He is a a bachelor. His .19 grandchildren After making his escape from a policeman by slipping out of his coat and carrying on a running fight in w'hich many shots were fired, a man who gave his name as Louis Wolf, 40 years old, and who the police say declared he escaped from Sing- Sing Prison on March 9, was re-arrested by the Brookline police last night and locked up, charged with carrying a loaded revolver. Lomasney Forces Amendment Broadening Scope of Graft Inquiry to Include Cambridge Tube Purchase Pot Through 1919 Legislature PRIESTS MARCHING TO PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO THE LATE CARDINAL GIBBONS.

It was an impressive sight as the clergy of the Washington and Baltimore diocese marched slowly up Mulberry street to the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary where the last rites of the church were bestowed upon the late Cardinal. Thousands bared their heads as the procession moved by. Photo by George T. Murray, Post staff photographer. RodenhiecT brldte-to-be has living.

GREEKS CLAIM TURK DEFEAT ATHENS. March Greeks have captured Avghin and held it against 22 attacks, says the official cornmunicatlon issued today. ICovalitza also has been taken by the Greeks. The communication follows: "We have occupied Avghin and the crest of the neighboring hill despite 22 counter-attacks, whlcrfi were repulsed with the bayonet, have captured after desperate fighting the strong military works at Metropolitan Trust Company 40 State Boston Maverick E. Our' Savings, Department Assures You of Utmost in Security and Personal Service.

Last Dividend at Rate of Our Foreign Department Is Equipped for Prompt and Efficient Service. Correspondents in All Parts of the World. Jfember t'ederal Heaerve System SLIPPED OUT OF COAT Patrolman Albert Strain of the Brookline police declares that while patrolling his beat about 8:30 he noticed a man standing on the porch of a vacant house on Winchester street, near Coolidge. As the man perceived the officer he walked toward him, according to Strain, and the latter questioned the man as to his Strain declares that the answers were unsatisfactory and the officer placed him under arrest as a suspicious person. At the corner of Fuller and Harvard streets, where the nearest police box is located.

Strain declares that the man slipped out of his coat, leaving the garment dangling in hands. Opens Fire on Patrolman Strain put after the fleeing fugitive, pulling his gun as he went. Fading into the surrounding darkness, the man pulled an automatic pistol and opened fire upon the patrolman, firing several shots. Strain says that he returned the shots, shooting as long as he could see his target. Strain telephoned Into police headquarters, and Lleutepant Mealey despatched Officers McClacken and Murphy, aldhg with Chauffeur Connolly, In a police automobile.

Reaching the scene of the getaway the officers scattered and finally picked up a coatless man at the Junction of Commonwealth avenue and lieasant street. The captured man was identified through the records of the- Boston police department late last night as Lx)uis Wolff, 36 years old, who was serving seven years and three months for grand larceny in Westchester county, New York, He escaped from Sing Sing on March 9. Sergeant Robert J. Evans of the buerau of criminal investigation at Brookline, with officers from the Dedham Street police station, late last night went to 145 Warren avenue. South End, and took into custody Mrs.

Eugene May, who claims to be the wife of Wolff. Wolff claims that he married the woman two days after he escaped from Sing Sing prison on March 9. Since they arrived In Bosi ton, two days ago, they have been living in the South End. together. WANT NO ALIENS ON PAYROLLS Council Holds Up Budget Plans-Rap Dr.

Woodward An attempt tp force department heads to from hiring nonresidents ahd aliens in their departments will be made by the appropriation committee of the City Council when they convene at two this afternoon. In trying to bring this about, they withheld approval of several dc- BALTIMORE, March Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop oi Baltimore, was buried today with all the honors that the Roman Catholic church could bestow on one of its princes. Into the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin the great stone pile about which the whole life poured prelates of equal rank, diplomats and statesmen from Washington, high officials of the land and State he had served and members of his own flock. in the rain, were massed bareheaded thousands. Contlnned on Page Column Contlnnod on Pagre Colnmn MANSION INN Maiwlon Inn Fumlly Dinner Chicken, Steak or LohiterffO Serred 12 Noon to 8 P.

81-e From TSorwmhega Park JliU NaUck 8862 -W. Sound and Conservative methods of hanking are the foundation of CONFIDENCE and SAFETY. OURS win stand your most searching Inveatlgatlon. This accounts In no small measure for the ateady growth of this re- sourcea. We Invite TOUR account.

Member of the Federal Reserve Bank Iteeoorces Over 97,590.000 Savinge DepoeiU Draw Interest From April 1st Liberty Trust Company Comer or Washington Court Sts. BOSTON, JUMPS INTO THE CHARLES South End Man Is Placed Under Observation MAD DASH BY HUMAN TORCH PRESIDENT BEGINS R. R. DIAaOSIS Situation So Grave that Government Control May Come Man With Clothes Aflame Rushes Down Street Edward D. Clark, 28, of 9 Bradford street, Boaton.

is under observation at Cambridge Municipal Hospital following an attempt at 9 last night to end his life by Jumping from the draw of the Harvard bridge. When pulled out of the river by the drawtender, George Dunn, the police siiy, Clark admitted he was suffering from delusions and had taken his leap an attempt to purify his body of; diseases. I An unidentified man, whose clothing was ablaze, running wildly through Commercial street early last night, was the first warning of a lively fire in the basement of the six-story brick building at 492. The firemen extinguished the blaze with a damage of about $60, but neither they nor the police have been able to find the human torch. Immediately after the fire Sergeant Sullivan and a squad of patrolmen from the Hanover street police station visited the scene of the fire and seized 16 gallons of alcohol In a barrel and a number of empty cans.

The police believe that the man was filling cans from the barrel and set fire to himself find the room when he lighted a pipe or cigarette. Salvatore Pucci, owner of the building, said he rented the basement Wed- riesday night to a man whose name he could not recall, and that he was urj- p.ware of what use the place was being put to. The police got in touch with physicians and the hospitals to see If the victim of the burning alcohol had reported for treatment. WASHINGTON, March ident.Harding began his diagnosis of the railroad situation today by consultation with the two government agencies that have kept closest watch over the pulse of the tran.s- portation system during the war period of readjustment. LONG CONFERENCE For more than two hours the President was closeted with Chairman Clark of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Chairman Barton of the Railroad Labor Board, in a conference de- to provide precise data on every angle of the railroad problem.

The executive asked not only for information, but for frank opinions of how serious the condition of the carriers really Is, and what remedies can be applied with greatest promise of results. Other conferences, at which railroad managers and employees can present directly their recommendations, are expected to follow, but It was said at the White House tonight that definite dates for these consultations had not yet been fixed. Details of the conference between Mr. Harding and the two chairmen were ot revealed, but It was indicated that there was no disposition to attempt a decision on any specific subject. The Infermatlon laid before the Chief Executive Is understood to have Included detailed figures on the recent earnings of the carriers, whose executives have painted a black picture of the prospect unless government relief le given.

At the same time the conference had before It the petitions of shippers for lower freight rates to permit them to compete with foreign goods in American markets, and the pleas of the railroad against any reduction in wages. In the background of these considerations was the question of possible government ownership. INDICTMENT OF BRITAIN IN REPORT Commission of Hun-: dred Scores Conditions in Ireland BRITISH EMBASSY IN COUNTER-STATEMENT Terms Report to Be and Wholly WASHINGTON, March responsibility for the present disorders in Ireland is placed upon the British government by the Commission of the Committee of One Hundred investigating the Irish question in a report made public today and covering the examination of witnesses at public hearings held by the commission in Washington last November, December and January. Continued on Page 2 JUDGESGET NOSUPPORT House Opposes Restoring of Pensions AUINBY arrt you, can. with oonsideratie There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise, He looked in the Directory when e'er he bought supplies Be said, all arc listed here, regardless of their size But I find the best to dead with are the ones who Plume Main 18S7-8 or Brattle St.

end Brattle Boeton SOO a Day and Up Dancing the Bird special today broiled live lobster Drawn Butter, French Fried Potatoes. Spaflhetti Italian. Bosten Cream Pie or Pudding, Tea or Coffee Plunked Steak nr Hhkiien for Serted In Mew Koom a 75 The House yesterday gave scant consideration to any of the proposals to restore to the Judges of the- Rtipreme, Superior and Land Courts the pensiocs which they had to relinquish if they took the Increase in salary voted them last year, and those who believe that an Injustice was done the members of the judiciary at that time will have to await the action of the Senate, where Senator Gibbs of Waltham, chairman of the committee and one of the Republican leaders, is expected to make a fight to restore the pensions, Ye.sterday’s discussion In the House was extremely brief for problem of such Importance. Representative of Worcester, who dissented from the adverse report of the judiciary committee on bills which would restore the pensions and grant the increases In salary, spoke earnestly' In favor of granting simple juctice to the members of the bench who had accepted ements with the understanding that they were to receive pensions. Representative Abbott of Haverhill, House chairman of the judiciary committee, opposed substltiitlon' of the bills and said that at the present time Massachusetts pays higher salaries to judges than any State In the Union with the exception of New York and Pennsylvania, with the right to retire on a pension of two-thirds of their salaries.

The adverse of the committee were accepted 6n a voice vote. Archbishop Mannix TalKs Ireland With Gasparri ROME, March Man- r.ix of Melbourne held a long conference cn the Irish situation with Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, yesterday. FAM-0 Gat Intansifltr and Carbon Ramovar distributed by Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Co. 155 oor. CornhitI, Bcwton Woroooier Fitonaurf Makes Bitter Attack on Ex-President VlcKnight EARNEST APPEAL FOR WHIPPLE AS COUNSEL Repeats Rumor of Note in Closed Bank SENATOR LYMAN W.

Appointed chairman of legislative committee In Elevated probe. RAMEY FOUND Sentence in Assault Case Expected Today BY ROBERT T. BRADY In a bitter attack on former President of the Senate Edwin T. McKnight, whpm he characterized as "the conduit or operator through which members of the 1918 Legislature were induced to do certain Mirtlh M. Lomasney yesterday forced the rule.s committee and the House and vSenate to broaden the scope of the street railway investigation to include not only the Boston Elevated and Bay State bills of 1918, but the Cambridge subway purchase and other street railway matters in 1919.

Lomasney also made an earnest appeal to amend the investigation Contlnned on Pane Frank S. Ramey of Wakefield was found guilty yesterday afternoon of a murderous assault on Mildred Wanamaker in Wakefield, last October, The verdict waS returned by the jury at 3:15 after a deliberation which lasted a little over an hour. is expected that District Attorney Tufts will move for a sentence this morning as the present session of the Middlesex criminal court will adjourn this afternoon. LAST TRIBUTE BY CHILDREN Will Attend Funeral of John Burroughs EXPRESS SURPRISE When George Carter, foreman of the Jury, announced the verdict a gasp went up from the crowded courtroom. The court officers rapped fharply for order and silence was immediately restored.

Ramey made no visible demonstration. He appeared to be a trifle dazed when he was led out of the criminal dock and hesitated for an Instant before he was taken from the room to the East Cambridge Jail. 20 Years the Maximum No intimation of length of sentence was made yesterday. The maximum sentence for assault with Intent to murder is recognized as 18 to 20 years. Judge charge ended at 1 and after an hour for luncheon the jurors took up the case.

The judge defined the two parts of the indictment, assault and Intent to murder, and fold them that It was assumed that their minds were open when they took their seats, and that they were to reserve a final formation of opinion until they went to the Jury room and carefully considered the evidence. District Attorney Tufts completed his argument shortly before noon. He ridiculed the alibi defence that had built up for Ramey and denounced the "insinuations and that had been made against the witnesses for the Commonwealth. He said that Ramey was strong enough to handle a pair of horses, and would have no difficulty in dragging Miss Wanamaker through the woods. He said that If she was inspired with hatred and revenge for Ramey and was a perjurer it would have been simple for her to say, Ramey assaulted POUGHKEEPSIE.

N. MarcK All the school children in the hamlet of West John Burroughs lived and studied nature for almost half a century, will march to his funeral next bearing flowers plucked In the i school yard near-by. Had death not claimed the naturalist last Tuesday, the i children'would have carried their 1 to Riverby, the Burroughs home by the I Hudson River, next Sunday, his 84th birthday. P. M.

MOON Office Partitions Oak. birch, made In In for tmmediste fle- llTsry. Prfre rery low. Interior Woodwork. Low Bank.

Wtore and Office Fixtures JAMES A. GLAS! Frukl Telephone Fort UlU SUN nuvn Light vehicles tonight nt TODAY'S AN ETC. British nrlntors raid Mufhelm and In Baden, lOl.l. One year ago toda.v—New ork Aaserobly pelled fire Socfallst Danish King a general strike at r'opennHgsB with tables to Ciull were opened. ForeoAHt for Boston and viclnltyi Friday fair niid colder; Natnrday fair wltli rlslOff teroperatnrej northwest wtnds.

WARHINOTOX, fcr northern New Knrland: and coo'er Friiiay; fair with rising tempern- tnne. For soiiUiern England cloudy and colder Friday; Saturday fair with rising temperature. oidlook. is for fair wegtber and Saturday generall.v east of the River. temperature will fall considerably In tha Atlantic Friday.

North of hui I Hook. Sandy Hook to Hal- Strong south shifting to west and northwest rain, followed by clearing weather. The Old Prediction I thnf the wenther fotlny nnd tonight will be fairly good, bnt colder than yesterday. It may con- tlnne qnlte windy. TEMPEBATIRE Reported by Kpa '211 3 ni fi 0 ...............4.3 421 6 p.

9 a. 0 p. 1'2 ...................85 61112 Average temperature yesterday, 5.3 0-24. Average one year ago yesterday, 49 12-24. 1.