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Let's Eat! Community Kitchen in Atlanta Feeds Poor at 2 Cents a Meal; Every Worthy Person Eligible.

BY RALPH SANDERS United Prris Staff t'orrespondrnt Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25.— a charity movement of great social significance began operations foday when a community kitchen crved food to the needy poor at •he cost of 2 cents a meal. The plan, originated by J. R. Nix, president of the Atlanta Restaurant Owners Association, provided steaming hot meals, complete In vitamins and calories, to be carried out of the kitchen in the purchasers pails and buckets and to be consumed in the privacy of home. The “bucket” cafeteria is expected to prevent the kitchen from becoming a meeting place of vagrants and undesirables. At the same time it provides a square meal for every “worthy” person in Atlanta, since, as Nix told the United Press, “any person who is too lazy to come down here and get it deserves to go to •bed hungry.” a a a TICKETS for meals are sold at 2 cents each and the citizenry is clamoring for them intrigued by the idea of feeding five persons lor 10 cents a day. Mr. Citizen even is arming himself with tickets to appease the persons who stop him on the •street asking for the price of a cup of coffee. So great has been the response of public benefactors that President Nix started a second kitchen for Negroes. The Restaurant Owners’ Association, which conceived the idea partly to eliminate the necessity of giving free meals over their restaurant counters, have organized the entire movement without a cent of expense. No individual concern has been canvassed and all the contributions have been voluntary. tt tt tt IN the beginning the scheme was announced in the newspapers. A banker came first with offer of a large showroom free of rent. The co-operatives in “Produce row” brought offers of all the vegetables the kitchen can use. A bakery offered abundance of bread and cake. A dairy promised plenty of milk. The power company offered free electricity. The gas company offered free gas. The phone company a free telephone. A decorating company painted the place free. A sign painter painted signs all over the kitchen without charge. A plumbing company fixed the plumbing. A woman's club manned the kitchen with cooks and assistants working without pay and also provided bookkeepers and clerks. A furniture store provided chairs and tables. The wholesale grocers promised all requested canned goods. An equipment house gave refrigerators and stoves, pans and kettles. The street car company sent down several hundred street car tickets for the use of workers in the kitchen. A printing company printed meal tickets free of charge. a a a AND still they come, all anxious to help. Many have offered their cars and chauffeurs to take food to invalids who can not come to the kitchen. The retail grocers asked to help and were advised to buy $5 worth of tickets and seek out the persons needing help. Nix thought of the plan as he sat in his apartment one night after a meeting of the association. The restaurant owners had been complaining about the number of free meals they were forced to give each day. One had reported feeding twenty-one persons without charge in a few' hours. THOMAS H. ADAMS' FUNERAL IS HELD Crusading Editor of Vincennes Is Buried With Simple Rites. Hu Times special VINCENNES. Ind.. Nov. 25.—The body of Thomas H. Adams, militant editor, was laid to rest this morning in Fairview cemetery after services. marked with simplicity, at the Adams residence. From all parts of the state, friends of the late political crusader came to pay their last respects at the grave. The Rev. Charles Whitman, pastor of the Vincennes First Methodist church, conducted the services. DOX WILL HOP FOR ISLAND OFF BRAZIL Next Stop of Great Plane Will Be Decided After Flight West. Rh l Kited rrcss CORUNNA. Spain. Nov. 25.—Dr. Cladius Dornier announced today that the flying boat DOX would continue to Lisbon and Cadiz, where it will prepare for a trans-Atlantic flight. The flight will be to Las Palms. Cape Verde and Fernando Noronha. off the northeast corner of Brazil >. he said, after which the officers of the ship will decide on the next stop. Markham’s Body to Chicago Hp L nited Press ALTADENA, Cal.. Nov. 25.—The body of Charles Markham. 69 chairman of the board of the Illinois Central railroad, who died in bis winter home here Monday, was on Its way to Chicago today, where funeral sendees will be conducted Friday.

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CITY OFFICIALS IN INDEPENDENT JOBS RELIEF Unemployment Aid to Be Paid From Donations by Municipal Employes. 100 ARE TO GET WORK Project to Be Carried on Without Help of Any Civic Organization. City officials and municipal emoloyes today opened an independent move to give relief to the unemployed during the winter. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will be asked to act on the suggestion of the safety board that every city | employe who is able to contribute 1 I per cent of each month’s wages for at least the next three months for • relief. This money would be handled through Harry E. Voshell, fire ! chief, and the Firemen’s Relief I Fund for the Unemployed. Simultaneously, the sanitary board announced $5,000 will be obtained in • fund transfers to place about 100 men at work Dec. 15 on clearing Pleasant run of pollution. 54,000 to Go for Pay Manual labor, only, will be used i in this work and the sanitary department will pay workers at least 130 or 35 cents an hour. The city | council will be asked to authorize ; the fund transfer at its next session. P. J. T. Jeup, board president, said $4,000 of the money will be used to pay laborers; S6OO for materials, and S4OO for tools. This will carry the work until Jan. 1, after which additional funds will be obtained. Officials of the board said the work would be distributed by the city and without the aid of any civic or charitable organization. The firemen’s move was brought before the safety board by Voshell today and received full indorsement. No Delay Is “Expected” According to Francis Coleman, deputy city controller, there are about 1,250 persons on the city pay roll who make sufficient wages to be able to aid the program. Sullivan, who has been attempting to work out some solution of the problem, is expected to indorse the proprwai immediately. No delay will be tolerated in the relief program, board members declared. As soon as the mayor gives his approval of the plan it will be put into immediate operation, they said. Majority of the funds derived from this plan will be used for food, clothing and fuel for the needy. Many reports of destitute conditions i have reached firemen and policemen, some of whom personally have : contributed furds. Investigations of conditions will be made by firej men and policemen in various distiicts of the city. Co-Operation Pledged Details of the “made work” plan for financing jobs for the city’s un- | employed were being perfected today and will be put in operation within a few days, it was announced. Co-operation of the heads of all city, county and school city departments has been pledged the commission for stabilization of employment in creating jobs, wholly outside the governmental units’ budgets, but on projects which have been regarded as desirable, and have been eliminated because of budget reductions. The plan, therefore. will cause no displacement of regular employes. "The money placed in the hands of the committee will be used enj tirely as wages on such public work,” declared G. M. Williams, chairman of the stabilization of employment commission. “While the committee plans a little later to take steps to stimulate private employment. all jobs created by private employers will be paid for by the employers themselves.” The Indianapolis Community : fund and the township trustees of . Center and Wayne townships are co-operating with the committee in making their resources available to be used also as wages to men who will receive employment on the ; "made” jobs. PAIR BEATEN BY MOB # * Two Men Are in Hospital—All for Playing Radio Too Loud. Bernard Snow. 31. of 845 Grove street, and his brother Robert. 25, of Vincennes, are in city hospital today after they were attacked by a mob of persons who claimed Snow played the radio in his restaurant too loud. Police Monday night found a throng armed with beer bottles, bricks and brass knuckles had given both men a sound beating.

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BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Nov. 25.—A1l of Soviet Russia united today in a vast demonstration demanding the death penalty for eight engineers who went on trial here charged with plotting an interventionist war against the Communist government. The eight defendants were led to the improvised courtroom irt a former noble’s ballroom, millions of men, women and children in the industrial cities of Russia marched in great parades, singing wildly and shouting demands for infliction of the death sentence on the counter-revolutionaries. They also raised cries against

All-Stars The football season is drawing to a close and experts all over the nation are picking their annual all-star teams. The Times again steps to the fore with two important selections this week. On Friday, Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame football coach, will select for The Times his all-Big Ten teams, and on Saturday, Dick Miller, one of the best known officials and writers In Indiana, will present The Times’ tenth annual allstate college teams. Don’t miss these important features by Rockne and Miller on Friday and Saturday!

HOOVER DENIES. PLAN FOR U. S. DRIVE ON GANGS Suggestion Reflection on States’ Sovereignty. Says President. ISy United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Suggestions that the federal government should begin a campaign to curb local racketeering were frowned upon today by President Hoover. In a statement made to the semiweekly press conference the President described such suggestions as “a reflection on the sovereignty and stamina of state governments.” President Hoover also said that the United States does not intend to enter into any trade conflicts with Russia or with any other nation. He was commenting upon the recent notice given by the treasury department that it would bar con-vict-made goods from this country under the new customs law. Revision of the immigration law to provide more “selectivity and flexibility” is favored by the President, he anonunced. Mr. Hoover said the recent restrictive measures he placed in effect against entry of immigrants who might become public charges were working out effectively. Two things are needed now to diminish criminal activities in several large localities, Mr. Hoover said, referring to the racketeering problem. The first is an awakening of civic governments which have failed to protect citizens against crime. The Second is a support for those organizations endeavoring to suppress racketeering. There is no intention on the part of the federal government of sponsoring any general laws to assume the responsibility of local enforcement officials in places where enforcement is lax, the President said. “The report that I am proposing to congress any extension of the federal criminal laws to cover racketeering is untrue,” Mr. Hoover said. “Every single state has amply laws that cover such criminality. “What is needed is the enforcement of those laws and not more laws.

Jobless Win

The unemployed win, no matter who loses, in the Shortridge-Cathedral encounter in Butler s bowl Thanksgiving mofnmg,” declared Tiliiam H. Trimble, chairman of the Indianapolis Legion, sponsoring the benefit contest, today. More than 8,000 tickets had been sold today for the contest, meaning SB,OOO for wages for the city’s unemployed as soon as the made-w T ork program is launched. “Fifty thousand attendance is the goal,” Trimble reiterated. “Every cent of the proceeds will go into wages."

BOY, 13, RUNS AWAY TO PAY VISIT TO CAPONES

By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—Thirteen-year-old Harold Green, who spent a day with Scarface A1 Capone’s family, was disconsolate at juvenile detention home today, awaiting the arrival of his father by airplane to take him back home to Cleveland. Harold, a runaway, arrived in Chicago Monday, looked up the Capone address, boarded a street car and, eventually, presented himself at 7244 Prairie avenue. Scarface Al's younger sister. Mafalda, answered the bell. “He isn’t home,” she said when Harold asked for Mr. Scarface Al. Harold went away, became cold and hungry, and m a few hours was back again. Mafalda cooked Harold some bacon and eggs and entertained

LLIONS STAGE VAST DEMONSTRATION AS WAR PLOT TRIAL OPENS

France, Britain and other European countries accused of plotting a co-operative war against the Soviet, and they demanded preparedness for “a defensive war.’’ nas THE Soviet press also renewed its bombardment of European capitalist nations, and Maxim Gorky, noted Russian author, addressed a message to workers and peasants throughout the world, asking them to prevent "attacks on the Soviet.” "Especially you workers of France and England should demand th3t your government expell Russian emigres and capitalists who are trying to sell the *

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1930

19.6 DEGREES LOW MARK AS WINTERCOMES Light Snow Tonight and Colder Wednesday Is City Forecast. BLIZZARD SWEEPS EAST Temperatures Westward to 1 Rockies From Chicago Are Near Zero. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a. m 20 10 a. m..... 23 7a. m 20 11 a. m 25 Ba. m 21 12 N00n.... 26 . 9 a. m 22 1 p. m 26 Indiana felt the first real nip of winter today as a blizzard whipped toward the eastern seaboard, leav- ; ing the far west covered with deep drifts of snow and the middle west ! shivering in freezing temperatures. The mercury’s drop here found Sits bottom at 6:15 this morning—--19.6 degrees. It was the lowest temperature recorded thus far this winter. “Unsettled with probably light snow late tonight or Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight; lowest temperature 25 to 30 degrees; colder Wednesday afternoon” was the bill j of fare served by the weather bureau i here today. The weather bureau here warned shippers that in a radius of 200 miles of Indianapolis, temperatures of from 22 to 30 degrees may be exj pected west, north and east, and j from 25 to 35 degrees south, during j the next thirty-six hours. Sixteen Above at Chicago ; Chicago this morning reported as | its lowest temperature 16 degrees; Ft. Wayne, 20; Terre Haute, 22; i Cincinnati and Louisville, 26; Ev- | ansville, 26, and St. Louis, 24. Temperatures westward front j Chicago to the Rockies ranged i from a few degrees below freezing down to nearly zero. Sleet and blus- ! tering snow falls were carried over I most of the regions by chilling ! winds. The cold wave reached into Ohio today and weather forecasters predicted it Would be felt Wednesday in Pennsylvania and New York. I Indications were, forecasters said, {that the entire northern half of the ! nation would be shivering under low ! temperatures by Thanksgiving. High winds whipped great waves ; across the Great Lakes and shipping j was delayed. The freighter William | S. Steifel, loaded with 10,000 tons of I coal, was aground on a sandbar in Lake Michigan, outside the harbor at Green Bay. Wis. Coast guard officials said the ship was in no immediate danger. T. A. T. Plane Forced Down Automobile traffic was delayed and [ trains tied up in Nebraska by bliz- • zards which arose after several ; inches of snow had fallen. Snow ! flurries also were reported from j Kansas, and temperatures in the • two states averaged 20 above. Eight passengers and crew j escaped injury late Monday when ; the eastbound T. A. T.-Maddux j plane en route here nosed over in ; making a forced landing in a cornfield near Greencastle. Propeller of the ship was bent ! when Pilot Hall made the landing : after running a snowstorm and pe- ! culiar formation of low-hanging i clouds. Passengers were taken to a Greencastle hotel in taxis and the mail placed on an eastbound ; train. The. plane was to have landed here en route to Columbus, O. Promote City Printing Products A drive to promote purchase of j Indianapolis printing products was begun Monday night 'by the Indianapolis Typothetae at a meeting in the Lincoln.

him until Matthew Capone, a brother of the gang leader, came home. Matthew told him it is true some gangsters are millionaires, have fine estates and automobiles. Then he took him to a movie. While they were gone Mafalda put in a long distance call to Theodore Green, a fruit dealer in Cleveland. who is Harold’s father. Alarmed over their son's new friends, the Greens promptly notified Chicago police. When he and Matthew returned from the movie, Harold found two policemen waiting to take him to the detention home. “I don't want to go home. Send me back to the Capones,” Harold sobbed today. “I bet I don’t even get an airplane ride back to Cleveland.”

workers and peasants of the Soviet Union to your capitalist,” Gorky wrote. Within the court room, which reeked of the faded grandeur of the old aristocracy, the prosecutor, Nicholis Krilenko, and the presiding judge. Vishinsky. opened the trial which Josef V. Stalin has said “would prove convincingly the ( seriousness of interventionist schemes.” Members of the diplomatic corps were present. nan THE eight defendants at the trial were pale but stoic, as they walked into the prisoners.’ box, knowing that the public be-

Bandits Rule Town

Sj/ United Press EATON, 0., Nov. 25.—Six robbers blew’ open the safe of the Gratis State bank at Gratis, near here early today and escaped with $5,000, while a fear-stricken populace remained indoors, unable to communicate with surrounding tow’ns, because telephone wires had been severed. The robbery was in progress when Mr. and Mrs. William Umple, who occupy a flat above the bank, were aroused. Three men were posted in front of the bank they said. Inside the bank the robbers touched off a nitro-glycerin charge. It failed to open the vault and five other charges set off in rapid order. The entire village w’as aroused by the first blast, but efforts of the Umples, w r ho are the village telephone operators, to call

FARM BUREAU SEEKS LIFTING OF TAX BURDEN Over 100 Resolutions Are Presented to Committee for Consideration. Recommendations for every type of tax, all directed toward lifting the burden from real estate, were being considered today by the resolutions committee of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, meeting here in twelfth annual convention. More than ” resolutions, most of them on taxa .on, have been presented to the committee for consideration and submission to delegates for their action. Taxes on incomes, malt, excise sales, amusements, cigars, cigarets and tobaccos, jewelry and professional sport events are proposed in the resolutions. Such a sweeping program of taxation in order to relieve real property is expected to bring protests from every industry affected but proponnents of the special taxes are concurring in declaring that the farmer must be relieved if he is to be kept from ruination. Work lo Be Completed Work of the resolutions committee is expected to be completed late this afternoon when the delegates will act. These recommendations then will be included in the 1931 legislative program. One resolution is expected to call for either revision of the present tariff act, or a special act to place a duty upon agricultural products which are in direct competition with those grown by the American farmer?. Members of the resolution committee are: Claude Wickard, Camden. chairman; W. E. Wamock, Portland; Frank Plass, Vincennes: Enzla E. Trafford, Posey county; Charles R. Stoner, Columbia City; F. W. Frank. Crown Point: Fred Prieble, Crawfordsville; Harlan Overleese, Rushville; E. H. Vehslage, Seymour, and Karl Nottingham, Eaton. “Farm Troubles World-Wide” “Farm troubles are not confined only to the United States, but they are world-wide,” declared D. O. Brubaker of St. Paul, dairy expert of the federal farm board. “The average farmer can go to town and run the other man’s business better than the average business man can run the farm,” Brubaker said in pointing out that farming is a specialized industry. Progress of agricultural co-opera-tive marketing was described by the speaker who declared that “a cooperative can be made as financially sound and reliable as other business enterprises.” Social and educational activities of the Farm Bureau were discussed by Mrs. C. W. Sewell of Otterbein, second vice-president and director of that department. Williams Addresses Banquet Recommendation that a minimum of 40,000,000 acres of United States farm land be reforested in order to reduce the over-farmed territory was made by Carl Williams, Federal farm board member, in an address at the annual banquet Monday night. William H. Settle was re-elected dent Lewis Taylor and L. L. Needier, secretary-treasurer, were elected directors to represent Indiana irt th national association. Screams Rout Bandits By United Press FAIRVIEW, Ind., Nov. 25. Screams of Miss Lena Benson, 50, proprietor of a grocery here attracted neighbors whose arrival frightened away two bandits. One of the men choked her in an effort to silence her screams.

lieved them already convicted and doomed. Except for the defendants’ drawn faces, the scene was almas'; festive. The stage entirely was draped in red, except the prisoners’ box, which was covered wi.h material as gray as the faces of the men seated there. Radio microphones and movie cameras were placed at advantageous ppints under huge arc lights which sharply outlined the stage. a a a THE prosecutor appeared clad in khaki, his closely shaven

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the sheriff or near towns, were unavailing. The exchange telephone wires had been cut. The robbers scooped up all the money in the vault and sped away in a blue sedan while the villagers, fearing they would be shot, looked on through closed windows.

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MOTHER JONES IS NEAR DEATH ‘Only Her Heart Is Really Alive,’ Says Doctor. tty United Preis SILVER SPRING, Md„ Nov. 25. Mother Jones, the century old veteran of a score of labor battles, is believed to be dying today in a farm house here, where for almost a year she has been bedridden. “Only her heart is really alive,” said Dr. H. H. Howlett, her attending physician. “Her body is just about dead. But her heart holds on.” “Am I going to die?” she inquired this morning of Mrs. Walter Burgess, at whose home she has been for more than a year. She contemplated an evasive answer to her question for a moment and then turned to Mrs. Burgess, saying: “God will be good to you as he has been to me.” It has been two weeks since Mother Jones has been able to take any nourishment. She swallows with extreme difficulty occasional spoonfuls of water .requiring two minutes for the process. For more than ten days she has not changed position in her bed. Even to touch her caused her extreme pain. LEVINE IS RELEASED Bailed From Vienna Jail on Counterfeiting Charge. VIENNA, Nov. 25.—Charles A. Levine, who had been held here hi connection with charges of plans for counterfeiting coins, was released today on $7,000 bail. Levine left secretly through the civil courtrooms adjoining the jail, thus escaping a crowd of several hundred spectators at the outer doors of the jail.

JOE ROBINSON DEMANDS CONGRESS AID IN CRISIS

By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic floor leader, today called on congress for enactment of emergency relief legislation during the short session to cope with economic and business distress, which he said was appalling in many parts of the country. “I regard as indispensible to the public welfare,” he continued, “that all co-operate in the passage of measures for relief in the drought stricken areas. The unemployment situation is acute and demands consideration.” Robinson- declined to comment on possibilities of a special session, but said he would prefer to avoid one.

head glowing like a polished bullet under the bright lights. It was Krilenko who, in the same great room, prosecuted the famous Skakhty trial of fifty Russians and three Germans charged with counter-revolutionary activities. The room was well filled with spectators, about seventy-five Russian and foreign newspaper men, and members of the diplomatic corp in a loge at the rear. There were thousands of spectators. Only two of the defendants— Xenephon Sitnin and Serge Kuprianov—had counsel. All others waived the right of defense.

! JEALOUSY-CRAZED HUSBAND MURDERS HIS WIFE IN STORE AND THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF

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Jealousy and adversity were the discordant notes that climaxed a musical romance with tragedy today when Herbert R. Kaster, 29. of 1339 Bellefontaine street, pictured at the marimbaphones, fatally shot his wife Helen, 22. pictured at the piano, and then turned his revolver on himself. The top photo pictures the duo in the musical act by which they made their living until reverses put their instruments in pawnshops. Recent snapshot photos of the two are reproduced below.

FLOODS KILL SCORES High Water, Storms Rage Throughout Europe. By United Press PARIS, foov. 25.—A vast region of France. Belgium and central Europe, washed by flood water and torn by violent gales, saw slight hope today for cessation of the storms which have done incalculable damage and taken about two score lives in two days. . The threat of Paris t floods, brought to a crisis as the Seine rose almost twenty feet above normal, was renewed with continuing of rain. In Belgium, some 500,000 acres of low-land was estimated underwater in the Antwerp-Termonde region. In Holland, a harbor wall was destroyed at Bergen-Op-Zoom and city streets were flooded. Veteran’s Widow Dies LAFAYETTE. Ind., Nov. 25.—Mrs. Alexander Duncan, 74, widow of a Civil war veteran, died in the hospital at the State Soldiers’ home here. The body was sent to Plainfield for burial.

Regarding prohibiton, Robinson said; “I do not think the Democratic party will declare for repeal. I don’t favor repeal, and I don’t think there will be any repeal in the early future.” He does not believe the federal farm board is providing adequate farm relief, and said he would favor enactment of the export debenture now advocated principally by a group under leadership of Senator William Borah <Rep., Idaho;. While Robinson favors disposition of the Muscle Shoals power and fertilizer project, he said be does not know whether that would be possible under present conditions this winter.

\ S the clerk of the court began r*- reading the indictment, the trial obviously was, in every sense, a revolutionary tribunal, rather than a court of justice. It resembled the tribunals of the French revolution more closely than any other ordinary court. Meanwhile, outside the courtroom, vast crowds of working men and women from hundreds of factories and thousands of offices paraded the snow-covered streets of Moscow in a great demonstration against the prisoners and the foreign statesmen who have been accused of plotting with them for an interventionist war against the Soviet,

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Young Woman Had Left Him to ‘Have a Good Time/ HAD TIRED OF POVERTY i *1 Hope He Dies. He’ll Kill Himself If He Don’t.’ Says Mother. • It's a terrible thing for a mother to say of her only son. but I hope he dies. She drove him crazy. He'll kill himself if he gets well.” That was the prayer of Mrs. Lee ! Raster. 49. broken by grief in her i room at 188 East Vermont street, ! today alter her son, Herbert R. Kasi ter, 29, of 415 North Delaware street, J shot and killed his wife Helen, 22, I clerk in the Merchants Outlet Com- • pany, 338-40 East Washington S street. After wounding his wife fatally ; Kaster turned a .38 caliber revolver | on himself, firing three bullets into i bis forehead. City hospital phy- | sicians say his conidtion is cirtical. i Crazed with jealousy, sleepless- ! ness and hunger, Kaster went to the I store where his wife and mother ! worked, and in the presence of four I other employes shot her through the ; throat after handing her a pair of | silver slippers. Grew Weary of Poverty Tire slippers, memento of their i days as musicians on vaudeville I stages, she had asked him to bring ; to her following their separation ; Thursday night, when she grew | weary of poverty and set out to j “have a good time." | She died in city hospital half an j hour after she was admitted, never ! regaining consciousness after she j slumped behind a counter as her | husband shot her. j To the slippers Raster's mother this morning added another glit- • tering remembrance of the days j when her son and daughter-in-law trouped before the footlights playing marimbas, drums and a piano. It was a silver evening gown, with rosettes at the shoulder straps. “Bury her in this,” she asked the ! undertaker. “Herbert would want her to be laid away in this’ gown and the slippers.” Jobless Since July Kaster has not worked since July. Mrs. Kaster got her daughter-in-law a job in the store, but she could not iridure poverty. Thursday the strain became too much. "I’m tired of living on nothing. I want to run around a week; go to dances, .and have a good time. Then if I don’t like it. I’ll come back to you,” she told her husband, j She went to a rooming house at • 1618 North Meridian street. “I warned her—l warned her.” the mother said. “I told her if Herbert caught her with another man he’d kill her.” ! “‘I don’t care. I’m going to have ; a good time,’ she said.” ‘Hello, Honey,’ Shoots “I told Herbert to cut her out. There are lots of pretty girls in | the world,” Mrs. Kaster said after . the shooting. “He told me there | may be plenty of good looking girls, •! but only one Helen. I wanted him ; to go away with me Saturday.” Walking into the store this morning Kaster approached his wife, with the slippers, smiling. 4 “Hello honey,” he said. She did not answer. Standing eight feet from her he drew a cheap .33-caliber revolver and fired. She j slumped to the floor. Pressing the • gun against his temple, Kaster | fired three -times, and then another shot hit the ceiling as he half sat and half leaned on a showcase and chair. * Came Here 6 Years Ago • “She left me,” he murmured ax ! the mother and clerks rushed to the front of the store. When the shooting occurred, D. R. Gillespie, manager, and Miss Wilma Welsh, clerk, were working with their backs to the Rasters. Richard Whitwort was talking on a phone, and John Richardson, a porter, was in the office. The mother was more j than fifteen feet away. From her family the daughter inherited a small escate more than a year ago. the mother-in-law said. They purchased an expensive automobile, but were unable to keep up payments on it. “Face Always Before Me” Monday Kaster went to Louisville, in search of work. Early today he I returned to his mother's room. “I can’t sleep. I can't eat,” he complained. “Her face is always bej fore me.” The mother and son came here six years ago from Nashville, Tenn., and he was married three years ago. The daughter-in-law’s family, who Mrs. Kaster Said was named Isenhauer, lived near Whitcstown. Ind., she declared. ENDS HIS LIFE IN POOL Man, 71, Ties 200-Pound Lawnmower to Legs; Leap*- Into Water. | By United Press LA CANADA. Cal.. Nov. James G. Gavin, 71, in ill health, • tied a 200-pound lawnmower about his legs and leaped into a private swimming pool at the home of his sen-in-law, Eddie Schmidt, the sheriff’s office reported today. His body was found in seven feet of water.