Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-03-17 | Page 1 | Rivera's Body Lies in State in Paris Hotel

RIVERAS RIVERA'S B BODY D LIES lIfS IN STATE SI A If IN PARIS H HOTEL IR Military Display y Lacking in Death Chamber of Ex-Dictator Ex PRIESTS SAY MASS Burial to Take Place NearS Near S Seville By RALPH E. E HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS March 17 Robed 17 Robed in the simple brown garb of a Carmelite monk barren of military decoration and with no symbol of hi his once high rank the body of the late Miguel Primo Prima d de Rivera River former dictator of Spain lay in state in the death chamber of his hil modest hotel here today Not ot a uniform not a sword not nota a a. single evidence e of ot military power potter v was as as present Within tho the chamber w were r cath- cath cred a small family Miguel group group Miguel this tha son Carmen and Pilar his daughters daughter r and Senorita Mercedes do Castellanos his former fiancee and and the Spanish ambassador Jose Tose Tot JoseMaria e Maria Marla do V Leon Three prIests before whom hom were two kneeling nuns said paid mass Flowers surrounded the thc bier Athis At his lila feet v. v.-as a small mall bouquet of f. f P Parma rma The The- dictators dictator's hands clasped a a. chaplet A somber touch relieved onI only by the flickering flicker flicker- lag ing candles w was s sl given n to the scene by bla black k draperies with which the wall was hung hunS BURIED IN lN SPAIN The Tho body will b be removed to Spain and burial will bA m in i th the tho family vault at Gerez Gercz near Seville Se In accordance with his request The Tho exile aila of de do Rivera whoso whose Iron hand had nad upheld the thc Spanish throne for six years was brief Strangely enough nough It bore boro out a prediction he made sadly adl when shien he arrived In Paris I L 1 shall shaH never see my beloved be be- loved ed Spain again as he lie said then But he refused to amplify his state ment nt Do Rivera era liar had suffered sc severely td I Continued o on pago page 7 7 I IJ D Dies Suddenly 1 y v PY v J. J r V VV V ti F V sf 7 t t r. r 4 1 j jV t V V y Lr PIMO DE RIVERA I RIVERAS RIVERA'S BODY LIES IN TATE AT PARIS PAIS HOTEL Continued from p page ge I 1 from Influenza InC in fit the tilli pa past t week and his heart hearl was believed fak cued ened by hl his hla lUne Illness C. C lie is known to toha ha have 0 g ven evidence o of severe ere heart lcarl strain Thursday Su So completely liar bar the thc V sen general p ral seemed d to recover from n his influenza t za that lint lila Ills personal ph physician Dr Alberto ib do cle planner Planned to take him to a a. private sanitarium at Frankfurt Germany to give sho hll him continued treatments for diabetes WAS BUSY WRITING At l D 0 I am ani Sunday his two daughters daugh h Carmen an and Ill I'll a 1 alit and his h's second son soil on Miguel I vIsited I his room In iii the Hotel Pont no Royal anti and found th their h father lather busy hus- with a n coriE correspondence that had plied piled up un since sluice his illness Ho lie hill had even e planned on i meeting more than of at hl his friends In time tile afternoon at atan atan atan an In Informal Cormal reception The two dau daughters laughters went out to tomase tomass mass flints while th time s son on left the hotel for a walk returning about an hour 15 inter ter On going to lila Ills fathers father's room I Miguel discovered the time former dictator dictator dic die leaning back against his pillow pillow pillow pil pil- pil- pil low as aR I If In itt a a. coma The physician was called and amid pronounced him dead Evidently E an attempt to wall walk brought ht too great a strain upon the Mart heart resulting in the blood chit that caused death