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Show Bing Aids Polio Drive Latest of American celebrities to undertake un-dertake the leadership of a nation-wide drive asainst disease is Ring Crosby, newly appointed ffm chairman of the y-X I S5,000,000 Eliza-" Eliza-" Vs oetn Kenny Insti- '"'e campaign to N " i begin in October. -t " 'M ,.Croone,r- cye- J 3 dian and produc- ' i J ' j er but above all ' ?. -,1 lather of four chil $ V dren, Crosby's de- ' ris'on ' lead the f $ drive to raise 3 funds for promot- t ing the new system of infantile paral- Binf Crosby yslJ treulment was prompted by a tour of hospitals, where he saw withered little victims of polio. "No little child on earth should be asked to suffer pain,- humiliating deformities de-formities and complications unnecessarily," unneces-sarily," he said. Tentative plans call for both movie and radio appeals for funds by Bing, and close state-wide organization of collections. col-lections. States will retain half of the proceeds for establishing local clinics and combatting communal epidemics, with the remainder remitted to national headquarters for new facilities at the Elizabeth Kenny Institute at Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, Minn., and increased patient capacity. PROBE CRASH: $500,000 Damage With 13 dead, 24 injured and property prop-erty damage estimated at $500,000, the army undertook an investigation of the crash of an 8-ton Billy Mitchell B-25 bomber into the 78th and 79th floor levels of the Empire State building in New York, tallest structure in the world. Piloted by Lt. Col. W. F. Smith, 27, of Watertown, Mass., the B-25, with its three occupants, smashed plumb into the north side- of the building in the foggy atmosphere after the officer had determined to make the run to Newark, N. J., despite de-spite advice to land in New York because of the murky weather prevailing pre-vailing in the. area. Before crashing into the building build-ing where office employes were busy at work at the time and either killed by the hurtling plane or burned to death by the fires touched off by gasoline, the B-25 was seen roaring through sky-scrapered Manhattan Man-hattan at a 38-story level. Completed Complet-ed in 1931 and valued at $52,000,000, the Empire State building's vaulted tower stands about a quarter of a miles above the street. FARM LAND: Farm real estate values continued to rise during the four months ended end-ed July 1, 1945, with an increase for the country as a whole of about 3 per cent for a total of 57 per cent above the 1935-39 average and less than one-fourth below the 1920. The volume of voluntary sales decreased de-creased 8 per cent during the year ended March, 1945, after having increased in-creased for six consecutive years, reaching a peak almost 15 per cent above that for the "boom" year 1919. |
