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i. MAN KILLS SELF IN 13-STORY LEAP Baltimore Coroner Says Decorator Was “Tempo rarily Deranged.” Sr the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, April 22.—Coroner Ervin B. Wallace returned a verdict of suicide while "temporarily deranged” In the death of Gunter Ulack, 27, of Delray Beach, Fla., who plunged 13 floors from his hotel room here yes terday. Ulack's nude body landed on an automobile parked beside the hotel. Ulack. an Interior decorator, regis tered at the hotel Sunday, employes •aid. Police found several notes, aome In German and some In English, in the hotel room. One letter In German was addressed to Miss Claire Hoppe of Delray Beach. Police translators salcf It read: "My dear Claire—Why don’t you come to me? We love one another so much on earth. You should come for I want to hold you in my arms.” A brief postscript importuned, "take an airplane to Baltimore.” Two airmail letters from the young woman were in the hotel clerk's office waiting for Ulack to call for them. Ulack was the son of Richard C. Ulack, Roslyn, Long Island, N. Y. He has a sister, Mrs. Margaret Jung, of Flushing, Long Island. FRIEND OF CARTOONIST. Fontaine Fox Says Ulack Was Discouraged About Work. DELRAY BEACH, April 21 OF).— Fontaine Fox, cartoonist and a friend of Gunter Ulack, who leaped 13 stories to his death at a Baltimore hotel yes terday, said Ulack was "discouraged and blue” about his work and future when he left Florida to return to his home at Roslyn. Long Island. Letters and telegrams addressed to Fox’s secretary, Miss Claire Hoppe, were found in Ulack's room at the hotel and two letters from Miss Hoppe were in his mailbox. "Miss Hoppe was well acquainted with Ulack’s family,” Fox said, "and he frequently called at my home here when he was In Florida. He was discouraged and blue about his future, and we both tried to encourage him. He had written several times since he left, and still appeared considerably upset.” i -- m Cold-Curing Plants Studied. The Bureau of Plant Industry, Dr. E. C. Auchter said today, is experi ! menting to learn if new plants con taining cold-curing properties can be grown in the United States. Most of them now are imported from China, India and North Africa. PLANNING BOARD HEAD LEAVES BOSTON CLINIC Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Plan ning Commission, has left the George F. Baker Clinic of the New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, following a six-week illness, an Associated Press dispatch reported yesterday. The dispatch said he was a patient of Dr, George Gilbert 8mith, but the nature of his ailment was not dis closed. Hospital authorities were quoted as saying Delano would stay with New England friends for about two weeks before returning to the Capital, Delano was taken ill while on a _U I VI I visit to Boston, but news of his con finement was guarded until he was discharged, officials said. His illness was at no time critical, and he is now convalescing satisfactorily, the dis patch said. ---• FELLOWSHIP AWARDED Jan Bazant, 23, of Masarylc Univer sity in Czechoslovakia, has been awarded the first Hall of Nations Fel lowship for graduate study at Amer ican University, it was announced in New York last night at the Institute of International Education by Dr. Ellery C. Stowell, director of the Ha)l of Nations. The selection was made on recom mendation of Dr. Stephen Duggan, director of the institute. IF you serve tomato juice regu larly on your table . . . and who doesn’t? . . . you’ll appre ciate the convenience of buying Ritter Tomato juice in the big half-gallon glass jugs. Easy to carry . . . easy to pour. You’ll appreciate, too, the won derful “garden-fresh" flavor of Ritter Tomato Juice. 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DEL MONTE ASPARAGUS TIPS Picnic-size cans ANN PAGE BEANS Our "double-cooking" process gives Ann Poge Beans an unusually tender, tasty goodness. Cooked in rich tangy tomato sauce. * _ _ FREE! A Genuine “CL_Jite” CEREAL BOWL with the purchase of TWO PACKAGES WHEATIES IVORY SOAP 3med. TFC (In Md., cakes | # 4 for 25c) 21ge. tOC (lnMd' cakes I jW * *or ^1c)