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Show GERMAN PROFESSOR COMMITS SUICIDE PALO ALTO, Cab. Dec. 21. Police were Investigating today circumstances surrounding the death from a gunshot wound of Krnsst William Ponzpr, assistant professor of applied mathematics at Stanford Stan-ford university, whose body was found In the kitchen of his home. A shotgun was at his side. Professor Fonzer was of German extraction, ex-traction, university authorities said, and at one time he was declared to have expressed ex-pressed opinions favorahle to the German cause before the United States declared w :i r on Germany. His wife sa i d today that he had been disconsolate over defeats de-feats inflicted upon the central powers. Professor Ponzer was n graduate of the University of Illinois, where he had been an instructor prior to assuming a position posi-tion at Stanford in If"?. |