Hundreds of dignitaries and friends of the late Congressman Sol Bloom today attended his funeral at the West Side Institutional Synagogue here. The remains of the Jewish legislator, who died in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., Monday night, were buried in the Mount Eden Cemetery at Pleasantville, N.Y.
Joseph Callahan, Sergeant at Arms of the House, led a large delegation of Congressmen who arrived from Washington to attend the services. Fourteen of Bloom’s Congressional colleagues served as honorary pallbearers. A squad of police were stationed outside the funeral parlour and some 50 uniformed policemen were assigned to duty with the funeral cortege.
Yesterday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, of which Bloom was chairman, adopted a resolution expressing its grief at the passing of “a great public servant, statesman and diplomat.”
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