Evening star., 1949-09-12
Rut|edge' 'sBody Here;
Wednesday
Al All Souls Church

The body of Supreme Court
Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge,
mourned by associates and ad-
mirers as "a great American" ar
rived in Washington this morning
by train from York, Me, where he
died Saturday at the age of SIS.
The body was taken to the
chapel of Joseph GaWler's funeral
home. 1850 Pennsylvania avenue
NV, where it will remain until
Wednesday morning. 1t will then
be taken to All Souls Unitarian
Church, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV.
Funeral services will be held at
the church at pm. Wednesday.
Justice Rutledge worshiped there,
the church of President William
Howard Taft, while in Washing
ton. The Rev. A. Powell Davies,
pastor, will off1ciate at the Serv-
ices. The Justices court colleagues
will be honorary pallbearers.
President Truman will be un-
able to attend the funeral, the
White House said, and has asked
Chief Justice Vinson to represent
him.
Family on Way by Auto.
Church authorities said details
of the service will not be known
until Justice Rutledge's family re-
turns to Washington. The jurist's
widow and their three children, a
family spokesman at York said,
are motoring today to the Capital.
They are expected here tomorrow
The justice was stricken August
27 while on vacation at Ogunquit,
Me, near York.
In the seclusion of their seaside
cottage the family received the
tributes of President Truman,
Justice Rutledge's fellow justices
and others high in public life.
Mr.. Truman's message of con-
dolence was not made public.
In the Capital Chief Justice
Vinson said, Justice Rutledge's
death is a severe loss to the coun-
try and to me personally" He
added:
HE was earnest, conscientious
and an eminently able jurist. He
was true to his ideals and, in all,
a great American"
Jackson Sees Him Overtaxed.
Another associate, Justice Jack
son, said Justice Rutledge had
literally overtaxed his strength
by devotion to his work"
A member of the Nations high
est court since 1943, big, soft
spoken Justice Rutledge was the
eighth and final appointee of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He died less than two months
after Justice Murphy, also
Roosevelt designee, who often
voted with Justice Rutledge on
civil rights issues. They were, in
the opinion of many lawyers. the
most liberal justices in recent
years.
A human sort of man and
judge, Justice Rutledge tried to
make the law serve human needs.
He came to the high bench,
after four years as a judge of the
District of Columbia Circuit Court
of Appeals, from a long career
as a teacher of law.
He was dean of the Washing
ton University (St. Louis) and
University of Iowa law schools.
A native of Cloverport. KY. he
became a Westerner because of
an aff1iction of early manhood
tuberculosis.
He called Colorado his home,
although he was named to the
court as an Iowan. A devotee of
trout fishing, he used to return
to Colorado as often as he could
to fish and read.
One of the friendliest men in
public life, the justice liked to
meet and talk to people.
His widow, Annabel Person Rut-
ledge, was his Greek teacher in
Maryville College, Tennessee. They
were married in 1917.
Besides his widow he leaves
son, Neal, and two daughters,
Mary Lou and Jean Ann.
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