The stock exchange commissioner Varkonyi, a lifelong friend of Wilhelm Vaszonyi, Hungarian Jewish statesman who died on Saturday, committed suicide, jumping from a window on the third floor. The reason for his act was given as grief for the death of his friend Vaszonyi.
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