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Show VAN DEVANTER . QUITSJOURT WASHINGTON, June 3 (U.R Justice Willis Van Devanter, after 26 years service on the supreme court, retired to private life yesterday yes-terday amid speculation of new retirements re-tirements during the summer recess. re-cess. Van Devanter puttered about his apartment preparatory to going go-ing to his farm in nearby Maryland. Mary-land. He received from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes a letter signed by all his colleagues expressing ex-pressing appreciation of his service ser-vice on the tribunal. The retiring jurist was told that his decision to retire gave his associates a "poignant sense of regret." |