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at ion, public lands and mining controversies — are peculiar to the west. Eastern judges have little experience In this type of law There was a possibility that the nomination of Schwellenbach would stir up another White Huseaenate judicia. 1 controversy Schwellenbach is in the senate bloc of 100 per cent new dealers. While rules of senatorial courtesy in the past ordinarily have virtually insured automatic confirmstlon of any senator nominated to another office this tradition has lost prestige since the controversy following senate confirmation of Sen. Hugo L. Black, D., Ala., Mr. Roosevelt's first supreme court appointee. The other possibilities would be confirmed without controversy, it was believed. One exception might he Jackson who is regarded by some senators as belonging to the same ultra new deal school as Schwellenbach. Because Jackson comes from New York, however, his chances for appointment were not regarded as good. Rutledge is the "dark horse” I candidate. He has not been men- , tioned, as have all othe others, in connection with previous court vacancies. However, it was understood that he received some eon-

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ANOTHER DEATH SUSPECT HELD Indianapolis Police Question .Man Who Gave Away Jewelry Indianapolis. Fell. 14 — <U.R> — Police today questioned an uni- ' dentifled Indianapolis man alleged to have given away the jewelry' stripped from the fingers of Mrs. Lelah Romig, victim of a brutal hammer murderer Jan. 17. Seven detectives seized the 41-year-old man at his home here late last night after he was brought Into the case by William Ray Butch, 57, an ex-convict and suspect in the murder. Butsch 1 told police the man gave him jewelry which police believe was . stolen from Mrs. Romig. The slaying of Mrs. Romig, a 55-yearold thrice-married and wealthy woman occurred in her i mid-town apartment. Her husband. H. Daniel Romig, 28, found her brutally beaten body when he . returned home from work iu a | . dime store. ! Butsch and Mrs. Lydia Hatfield, i , 21. who said she was Butsch's ■ step-daughter, were arrested last week at Anderson after they had I pawned jewels police believe be I longed to Mrs Romig. Detectives I said Mrs. Hatfield gave a 12-page, hand written statement to Prose-1 ’ cutor David M. Lewis last night Contents of the statement were guarded closely. "Her statement will not be dis closed until this case is wrapped * up." Lewis said. Two diamond rings recovered | I from pawn shops at Anderson , and Muncie have been identified as property of Mrs. Romig by the slain woman's husband, it was learned. Another of Mrs. Romig's missing jewels was found in an Indianapolis pawn shop, where it had been brought last week “by a woman." police said. Several pawn tickets were found in possession of Mrs. Hatfield but officials declined to reveal whether any of them were incriminating. Butsch and Mrs. Hatfield, arraigned yesterday on vagrancy charges and held without bond, will be returned to court Felt. 21 after officers have had time to complete their investigation of new developments in the case. Questioning of Butsch was tin derstood to have been unsuccessfijt. Police reported he was reluctant to talk but said Mi’s. Hatfield was "talking freely.” Authorities are endeavoring to pin Butsch down on the fact the he is known to have visited the ' Romig apartment prior to the ’ woman's death. Prosecutor Lewis wfts understood to have positive evidence Butsch called on the woman, who at the time was attempting through newspaper ads to sell a restaurant she owned here. Butsch has . been in prisons in Illinois. Wisconsin and Indiana on charges tanging from confidence.' man to robbery. Authorities said he was arrested here last summer and at the time had grey hair. His hair now is brown. Officers, said it had been dyed. sideration for the Vardozo vacancy. Rutledge is 45. He was born in ! Kentucky but has spent his life in the west, attendirtg the University of Wisconsin, practicing ill Colorado and serving as acting dean of law at Washington University. St. Louis, before going to ■ lowa in 1935. He is a Democrat and a strong supporter of Mr. Roosevelt.

To Present Prizes During Hog School Valuable door prizes will be given | away in the extension high school | to be held at the Central school 1 building, corner Fifth and Adams streets Thursday, February 23, It | was announced by Norval Fuhrman' and John Hllgeman. members of. I the hog committee. The prizes in [ elude four hog troughs, ranging' from two to six feet In size; also a hog fountain, two knives and a pair of snippers. These worthwhile prizes will be awarded to those intending the meeting. Every farmer raising hogs will receive many practical ideals on feeding, management and marketing of hogs from John Schwab and Paul Mitchell, Purdue specialists. o G.O.P.HEAQS ARE JUBILANT 2,000 Persons Attend Lincoln Celebration In New York New York. Feb. 14.—(U.R) —The Republican party, admitted moribund until last November, presented to the nation today what its > leaders asserted was a "united . front" infused with “a great spirit ■ ■ of fight for 1940." Leaders looked back on last night's Lincoln day celebration here, one of the largest and most militant gatherings of Republicans in years, and predicted a return to power in the next presidential 1 election after eight lean years. Former President Herbert Hoover. who keynoted the six-hour "victory through unity party” with the assertion that only a return to Republicanism could save the nation from "inflation and dictatorship.” expressed delight today with the reaction his words evoked. Still stimulated by the repeated and sustained bursts of applause and cheers with which nearly 2,000 white-tied and colorfully gowned Republican men and women greeted his 3,000-Word address, the party's chief spokesman said: "It was a great and enthusiastic ' meeting. It bodes a great spirit, of fight for 1940." Party chairman John D. M. Hamilton was even more jubilant. Last, night he admitted that prior last November's Republican gains, there had been "grave doubt in the minds of many men that the Republican party would recover from the disastrous defeats suffered in the previous six years. But he turned the meeting into an occasion of happy back-slapp-ing all around with the assertion that "our party successfully had passed through a crisis which im-1 periled its very existence.” Today he felt even more certain. “I went out west last January and visited six states in 12 days,” ■ he said. “I never have seen as fine a spirit of unity. And that I spirit was exemplified again last night. , "There are men of varying de- ' grees of viewpoints in our party | —but they are expressing their ' views inside the party. That is i the test of a Republican—whether ; he believes most of the time in the tenets and candidates of his party.” — FOR SALE — New Form of Affidavit of Mortgage Indebtedness, 2 for 5c or 51.25 for 100. The Decatur Democrat Co. H

TWO MEN HELD IN EXTORTION ■ Hi-jacker, Former Law Studertt Arrested At St. Paul St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 14—<U.R>—} A hi jacker and a former law student today faced possible fed eral prosecution for having at-' i tempted to extort $15,000 from Charles W. Ward, one-time barroom handyman, sailor, adventurer and convict, now a respected millionaire, philanthropist and confidante of governors. The extortionists are Mathew W Stegbauer, 31, of St. Paul, who was released only six months ago from Leavenworth peniten- 1 tlary where he had served a term for hi-jacking, and Harold McAvoy, 29. St. Paul, who gave up i the study of law to become a whisky salesman. Paul Contre-1 ras. 40. St. Paul, was seized with] them but was released yesterday after Stegbauer and McAvoy confessed they alone were responsible for the plot and that they had used him as a tool. It was at Leavenworth that 1 Ward served a year's term in the early 1920's on a narcotics charge and met Herbert H. Bigelow, millionaire head of Brown and Bigelow- company. St. Paul, one of the l largest advertising specialty ! houses in the country. That friendship led to Ward’s rise from a prison cell to the presidency of the firm. Since then he has aided in the reformation of scores of exfelons. About 50 are working for him now. Police said Stegbauer and Me-> ' Avoy admitted they sent a letter 'to Ward last Friday, describing themselves as ex-convicts in need of money, not an unusual appeal. But they demanded, police said, that Ward give them $15,000 under a threat that they would reveal information that would connect him with the unsolved slaying of Walter Liggett, crusad ing Minneapolis editor, who was shot down by gangsters three i years ago during the height of an expose of graft and vice in the' twin cities. The letter mentioned two recent magazine articles which referred to Ward as the “angel” of the Farmer-Labor party. “We know you are a liberal. Mr. Ward." Ihe letter said in part, ■'and we are ready to furnish security for the money. We may pay this money hack to you However, we stand ready to carry out oui threat." , Police Chief Clinton Hackett, i said the threat was entirely without foundation and that Stegbauer and McAvoy had no evi-, dence whatsoever to connect : Ward with the Liggett ease. | He said Ward had communicat ed with police immediately after he received the threat. Maurice Rose, former chauffeur of Ward's ' close friend, the late Gov. Floyd Olson of Minnesota, was selected ! to deliver a dummy package. Conl.treras accepted the package from i Rose and walked to a hotel where , I police seized him, McAvoy and | Stegltauer. Police said postal authorities un-1 doubtedly would enter the case, j probably today, as the extortion letter was mailed to Ward. They said that pending a complete investigation Stegbauer and McAvoy would be held on an open charge, and be booked formally on ' a charge of attempted extortion, tomorrow or Thursday. Hackett I said Contreras, who received ten I cents for delivering Hie letter, had |

been ordered to make himself available as a material witness. 0 BODY OF POPE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) week ceremonies. The cardinals then filed past the coffin, each blessing the body Many of them were sobbing. Magr Giimbsttfsta-Ferrari read I the act of tumulation, after which ' the coffin was handed over to the , chapter of St. Peter's. At that moment, the papal noble guards were relieved of their duties, which they will resume after a new pope has been elected. At 5:30 pm. ropes were placed around the triple coffin by the "San Pietrlni.” or blue-uniformed* ! janitors of the basilica, tor lowering into the crypt. It was then] I growing dark and the electric | chandeliers were lighted. The cardinals blew out the candles. The coffin was drawn on a, wheeled carriage to the confessional altar, leading down to the

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crypt. Thu cardinals preceded the coffin Into ihe crypt to view the final resting place of Pius XI. which he personally chose alongside the tomb of Pius X and In front of the tomb us the latu Cardinal Merry Del Vai. After six minutes in the crypt, the cardinals returned to the basilica. The ropes around the coffin were attached to a miniature crane and slid down wooden planks into the crypt. Outside the basilica, the square was still crowded with the faithful. kneeling on the cobblestones and praying. The ceremony of lowering the pope's coffin into the crypt was slow and solemn. A huge cross ; was borne aloft, towards the planks down which the coffin was | slid and those present made the sign of the cross, The coffin was preceded into the crypt by the St. Peter’s choir singers. Just before the coffin was low ered, the prelates chanted, "Ora

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Pro Nobis" (“pray for us ") At 8:32 p. tn. the coffin was placed ■' In the crypt. As the coffin reached the resting place a solemn chant, "Benedictus" echoed through the eathe- ■; drnl from the depths of the crypt. The faithful In the basilica knelt and prayed ua the body reached J Its final resting place The bells of St. Peter's still , mournfully tolled. i 1 Entombment of the pope occurred four days after his death. Many thousands of the fnlthful . i viewed the body while It lay iu i state in the basilica

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