Evening star., 1932-05-12
|DOUMER FUNERAL
VIEWED BY MILLION
Body Taken to Pantheon
After Cathedral Rites-Tar-
dieu Delivers Grafton.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 12.-France bowed In
sorrow today and paid o last tribute
at the funeral of Paul Doumer, the
venerable, white-bearded President she
liked to call father" NJ. Doumer was
slain last week by an aSsassin's bullet
Parisians jammed the streets and stood
in solemn silence as the funeral pro-
cession filed by on its way to the Cathe-
dral Of Notre Dame. 1t was such a
funeral as Paris had not seen since
Papa" Joffre, hero of the Marne, was
buried IN January, 1881.
A king and four princes of the royal
blood trudged behind the rumbling ar
tillery caisSons all the way from the
Elysee Palace, march of an hour and
a half IN the warm, damp morning.
At the cathedral the requiem mass
was celebrated by Cardinal Verdier.
Archbishop of Paris, who wore q black
and silver chasuble over his flaming red
cassock. The nuncio of Pope Plus XII,
Monsignor Maglione. presided over the
ceremony from the archiepiscopal
throne.
Wen over 1000, 900 people throneed
the streets and squares to watch the
procession. After the services at the
cathedral the cortege continued the
march TO the Pantheon.
Grafton by Tardieu.
At the Pantheon, on the very "MolIn-
tain Of Sainte Genevieve," in the
shadow Of the edifice in which repose
the nations illustrious dead, Premier
Tardieu, in moving grafton, described
the dead President as the supreme
type of democrat" while the army. in
which M Doumer's four sons gave I'D
their lives during the World War.
marched past with flags dipped at
salute. The Premier reviewed the late
Presidents three-quarters Of a century
Of toll
Twenty persons tainted and three or
four women became hysterical as a re-
suit OF the crowd trying to break
through the police Gordon in the Rue
Souffiot, on the way to the Pantheon.
NOtre Dame Bells Toll.
The bells Of Notre Dame began toll
ing as the caisson, drawn by six black
stations, came into view.
Before 1t marched three hospital
nurses and on either side we're the pail
bearers
They we're: Prof. Charlety rector of
the University of Paris; Roland Dor
geles. wartime novelist; DR.. Julien, a
personal friend of the late President;
Paul Brousmich, president Of the Ma
tional Union of War Veterans; former
Minister Albert Sarraut, who sue
China; Admiral Durand-viel, chief of
the naval general staff, and Franchet
D'ESperey. marshal Of France.
The family, with the exception of
Nine. Doumer, followed on foot behind
| the hearse. Then came officials of the
late Presidents military and civil house.
| holds, the officers with their swords
wrapped in crepe.
Albert Lebrun, President Doumer's
successor in office, followed next alone
and bareheaded, wearing the broad red
Gordon Of the Legion of Honor.
Then came tall, gaunt Albert, King
OF the Belgians, in khaki, with a mourn
ing band on his arm. He was followed
by four princes-the Prince of Wales
IN long, gray Churchman's overcoat;
the Duke of Aosta Of Italy in q bright
blue aviation uniform surmounted by q
wide purple sash, with the collar Of the
annunciata at his throat; Prince Paul
of Jugoslavia and the young Emperor
of AMMAN.
Eight enormous floats we're piled high
with wreaths from soyereigns and chiefs
Of state. One was bound in the monarch
ist colors Of old Spain and bore the
inscription Of former King Alfonso XIII
and former Queen Victoria. Premier
Tardieu marched alone in evening dress
and top hat. He was followed by the
members Of the cabinet.
Then came Marshal Lyaute In full
| uniform, carrying a marshaPs baton
the patriarch of the Syrian Church,
the justices Of the Court of Cessation
and Gen. Maxine Weygand.
| Also in the procession were the
| members Of the diplomatic corps, with
Ambassador Walter z. Edge Of the
United States and Ambassador DR..
Leopold Won HoeSch of Germany, spe-
cial envoy Of President Paul Won Hin
denburg, in evening dress, and the
others in diplomatic uniforms; several
members Of the French Academy in
green uniforms, three -cornered hats
with plumes and slender swords, and
the members Of the Senate and Cham
Der OF Deputies.