Seward daily gateway., 1932-05-07
FRENCH PRESIDENT
 DIED FRIDAY MORN
 AsSASs|N' BULLET
DOrTnyER LIVED FOR ALMOST TWELVE HOURS BEFORE
 JOINED MAKER

PARIS, May '. (P)-Paul Dou11iei' President of France, Is deao' Tt died Friday morning at 4:4O ocloch' Paris time, just as dawn was break ine over the city, victim ot the bullets fired by white RusSlah fanatic. He was 75 years ot age.
 Doumer was attending a vet erans' charity book exhibition when he was critically wounded by two bullets-one in the chest and one beneath the ear-by Dr. Paul GOT eulov who said his motive was re- venge for the French refusal to intervene with Russia against the BolShevik. The first bullet fired at President Doumer entered the front of the chest on the right side, seVerlng an artery. The second entered the head below the left ear, traversed the mouth, and emerged through the right jawbone. The doctors kept the President in partly con- scious condition through several ln- iectionS and tn es c with blood transfusions brought his pulse to near normal, but he was in a semi Stupor.
 Gorgulov told police: T am the founder and president of the Rus sian Fascists. I returned from Monaco Wednesday to kill Doumer because France with other nations of Europe and the United States have ended Soviet Russia by fur nishing money and running my country"
 Police said his new FaSciStS are limited at the most to 20 members. The assassin, who s t u d e d in Prague, was deported to France year ago as an undesirable agita- tor Shortly before the shooting Gorgulov bought three books at the charity affair, giving the name of Paul Prade. Ferrere inscribed the books, writing ito Paul Prade, French journalist" Under it, Cor gulov~ wrote, before the shooting, Paul Gorgulov, chief of the Rus sian Fascists, who has just killed the President of the French Re- public.''
 Every effort was made to save e physicians were in attendance. Three blood transfusions were made as Doumer suffered great loss of blood from his shoulder wound, but to no avail.
 Madame Doumer and the Presi- dents daughter were at his bedside when he died. The entire French cabinet was assembled in the next room.
 In accordance with French law the cabinet must meet at Versailles withi height days and elect suc- cessor.
 Doumer was born March g, 1857 in the little town of Aurillac, prov ince of Auvergne, and he was the son of a humble railway worker Orphaned at a nearly age, self educated after fierce struggle Paul Doumer at "A was elected the 18th President of the Third French Republic by the national assembly sitting at Versailles, May 13, 1881
 It was the second time that Dou- ner had been a candidate for the Presidency. Tn 1906, when he was president of the Chamber of Dep uties, he ran against Armand Fall Heres, then president of the Sen ate, and lost. A quarter of cen tury thereafter, having been him. self elected to the Senate presi- dency, the second office in the French state, Doumer attained his ambition.
 His induction into the Presidency crowned a career that had it's gen. eslS Tn the efforts of the son of section boss on a railway to get . university education. He was borr intQ penury, which became rea poverty when his father died while the future President was still il grammar school
 The war years took heavy toll O. the Doumer family Three of hi five sons were killed in battle ane fourth died soon after the armis tice from wounds. The strickel father was busy through the wa