Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1924, Page 5

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1924 "AOJUSTMENT I PROSPECT FOR “L.$. WAR CLAM Deferred: Payments on German Bill Would Ease Situation Biiee Le: By LUDWELL DENNY. (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—For the first t! since the deadlock oc- ‘curred bet! the United States and Great tain over the right to A Select) approximately $250,000 000 \American war claims from German reparations payments, the dispute Areried on the way to settlement to- night. ‘This government has indicated to London informally that it might ac- cept a deferred payment plan which would entail no greater immediate érain on the reparations fund than already provided for in the Wads worth agreement covering in annual payments the separate American claim of $256,000,000 for the United States army of occupat'on. Such plan ft {s proposed here, wil! permit Great Britain to withdraw from her objection of American col lection of claims without sacrificing her content‘on that no greater load "\should be put on the reparations fund at present. Informal negotia- tions will continue along this line in “an attempt to reach an agreement before the postponed conference of allied finance ministers meets in Paris January sixth. That confer- pence provided for by the Dawes f) agreement will allocate the repara- “{ tions payments. Britain however, has not given f..the idea of dealing with interme- diate debts at the conference with «the intention of forcing joint contd- ‘eration of German reparations allo- * cation and partial collection of all “debts. France and Italy also favor such a decision. ~~ Col. James A, Logan and the ~ other American representatives of \ithe conference will be instructed to _- keep allied debts off the agency at “any cost. This government, will not ‘and can not under the law, discuss j reduction of allied debts to America. “ If the United States can limit the conference to reparations the sup- 4port by the other allies of America's claim will force Great Britain to agree to this country sharing in re: parations under the deferred pay- “iment plan. Great Britain has op- , posed collection of Americans claims out of the Dawes fund because this country and not a party to the Ver- sailles treaty and has not reimburs- “ed itself for war losses by perma- wnently retaining seized aliens prop- erty. PMS. GOMPERS ; ESTATE SMALL (Continued from Page One.) a .,Neuschler of New York, in h.when he was 71 years old, y* Gompers’ age was given as 38. Gompers left bequests of $100 each “to six organizations with instructions that the money should be used by each to purchase an American flag, ‘and for no other purposes. The organizations are the A. F. of L., ~the Cigar Makers’ international “cunion of which Gompers was a member, Cigar Makers’ local num- “ber 144, at New York, Dawson Lodge yot Masons, in Washington, the lo- pascal lodge of Elks and a New York lodge of Elks. f+ Samuel Gompers Jr. was named executor, Attorneys will not be faready to make appraisal of the es- “tate for some days. Gompers was not reputed wealthy. His ralary was Feonly $10,000 a year. 1921, Mrs. EF «JINGLE | BELLS | CAPE MAY, N. J.—If the pres- ent weather continues, Fred Ben- ypett will be able to pick enough Strawberries in his garden to;sup- ply his*neighbors’ Christmas din- }) ner dessert. H LONDON—The Prince of Wales has sent nearly 100 Christmas presents to friends in America. Most of the gifts are in the form of Jewelry. NEW YORK — The famous Christmas: carol, "Silent Knight, Holy Knight,” will be 100 years old this Christmas. It was writ- “ten in 1824 by an Austrian priest. PHILADELPHIA —Georgo El- list “Papa” gave him his Christ: mas present a week ahead of time. It was a flivver and cost $65. While driving tt George hit another car and caused $100 dam- age. CHICAGO—Henry Kapulski 1s about to break a Christmas habit ‘of ten years’ standing—he is going to give his wife a Christmas pres- Fent. Brought before Judge San- ‘dusky on a charge of non-sup- port, {It developed out of the oresentiess Christmas, Henry was on his to Wife and give he Thured. * ‘oled promise t hi next CHICAGO—Christmas is going be unwet'for a lot of Chicago- 8, ‘Federal dry officials today ized, $60,000 cargo of Christ a8 Mouer that wafshipped from Loulsiana, to Christmas By ARNOLD LARSON. It was the night before Christmas and the cowhands and sheepherders came down from the ranges, bearded, crusted and rarin’ to go. On Wolcott street across from where the postoffice now stands, the dance hall run by the nose-less and nctorious Lou Polk, invited all comers, Its doors cracked with the crowding of revelers, and swinging to and fro disclosed in the smoky Ught and mad swirl of Lou's lurid ladies and the ‘ boys,” let out a g-impse of a bar lined with real stuff that was flooding the house. Outside in the cold pight shaggy cayuses half-hitched nz @ rail, bent pnder their saddles and drew their heads down, restlessly waiting with frosting hair for the Christmas Eye “party” to end. Then, as the wild celebration was hitting the high places with spurs on, along the frozen ruts of Wolcott street staggered a belated but pre- pared “customer.” With, meticulous care he was bearing a clump of sage- brush, traveling with studied yet un- steady dignity toward the Polk pa’- ace of “wine, women and song.” Crashing into the doors and leay- ing them wide open, he reeled through the reeling riot to where the lady “they call Lou” was leaning against the bar, her glinting eyes giving a hard-boiled double O to her party, the hideous reminder of the nose that vengeful Dogoe Lee knit- ed off, sniffing the powder and the paint and the liquor in the air of her den. ‘Christmas comes but onct’ a year boys,” gleefully how-ed the stranger as he hoisted the withered bunch of sagebrush above Lou's head, “Step up, I say, an’ have a kiss on the hous And right then there was hurled out into the frigid night a wild west- ern gallant no longer having to de- pend upon legs for locomotion, still clutching his prairie mistletoe. That happened—so they say—in Casper three decades and more ago. It was the night before Christ- mas and down from the bleak ranges came the cowhands and sheepherd- ers. The wind—the same old wind that today sweeps just as fiercely down the valley of the North Platte and through the ctly as it ever did— whistled across the shacks bravely huddled together in the semblance of a town and whipped stinging crystals of snow along Center street. Lou Polk's place was no more, In its stead nine saloons fronted the gutters, all running full blast, swing- ing doors at every step. Tom anti Jerry gatherings swarmed from ene to the other, making the Christ- mas rounds, lurching and slipping. Qutside the saloon windows were glazed with ice, inside they dripped with the stagnant vapors of beer and hot breaths. Fiery stoves fumed with a stench caused by spouts of tobacco juice impinging against the red plates from every side. But at the same time out of Judea came the age-old Star of Bethlehem to-shine on Casper, letting its small bright rays fall on the little Episco- pal church at the corner of Wo'cott and Second streets, where the six story Midwest building now looms up. In that religious haven of Natrona county pioneers devout families, so- berly and with saintly satisfaction, joined in singing “Holy Night,” saw again the hallowed cradle of «he Christ Child, and were happy. There around the Christmas tree that had been cut from Casper mountain, in the twinkling halos of a score of tapers, children heard the stories of St. Nicholas’ doings and were de- ‘ighted, anticipating a call from him before morning. Last-minute shoppers packed the Pioneer Drug store on Center street, watching with fever the ancient Seth Thomas ticker deal out the fleeting seconds as they made a last and final attempt to keep faith with Santa Claus. Besieged, W. 8. Kimball, who is now owner of two large drug stores here, desperately attended to the wants of the frantic crowd—and out of his establishment came a pleased throng of customers, nearly every- | one of them bearing away at least | one package that concealed a per- fectly wonderful p'ush album. That bulky repotory of the family por- traits was a,great favorite in those days. Well-to-do flockmasters were other patrons. They went in for jewelry and thelr wives still wear Kimball diamonds that are now worth much more, in monetary value, than they were then. a After’ midnight the Pioneer gave Ciera we ml Be Bela! Celebration In Pioneer Casper Held Attraction All Its Own he Casver Sunday Cribune Such was a night before Christ- mas in Casper in the early 90's. Lou's dance hall, the nine salcons, that first Episcopal church and the Pioneer drug store are places of the past. Many men and women of those days still live here. They recall the antics of more than one cowboy Kris Kringle come in from the wilds in chaps. They see again the sights of the early-day celebraticn of the Yuletide. They, have witnersed changes in Christmas styles, but they have come down the years with @ realizatfon of experience that the true spirit of the Natal Day is just as it was 1925 years ago. eee its services to the “cleanout” boys. The prcprietors of the nine saloons, done for the day and their cet bulging with receipts, canfe ihe tse store to buy the p-ace out. The nine were b'essings for Mr. Kimball. ‘They carried off all gift articles in sight, and the ones that were left for them were the most expensive and the hardest to get rid of—until they turned up. Y BERLIN: Mo: | wa ATTRACTIVE PRESENTS at | a modest prices—in | Gift Suggestions” columns of the Classified Sectior ‘Bloody mutiny” troops favoring Leon and “conditions ke c'vil ewhere throughout reported in Odessa the “Christmas| relayed here by the Bucharest cor. respondent of the Be: TIRANA—The released from by | ately. Trotsky in Russia, dispatche: Libertia, that F gotiations for ner Amit-| agreement over AROUND THE WORLD ON THE NEWS WIRE (With United Press) MUNICH—Monarchists are plan- ning an elaborate festive reception for Adolph Hitler when the noted agitator, who was prison yesterday arrives here. Albian govern- ment today asked the soviet lega- tion, including Minister Krakoviet- ski and six members of his staft all of whom arr ved here Wednes- day, to leave the country. sians departed for Moscow immedi. PARIS.—Following a statement in ‘ance-German ne- a commercial treaty had been broken off following a dis- cotton, both The Rus- the ministry of commerce issued denials that this was so. STOCKHOLM — Swedish _ textile manufacturers today declared a lockout effect ve January 2 in conse quence of a breakdown in wage ne- gotiations. Thirty thousand apera- tives are affected. SANTIAGO, Chile.—The funeral tomorrow at 10 a. m. of Luis Roca barren, former communists deputy, will be the occasion of one of the greatest workers demonstrations in the history of Chile. Rocabarren’s body was found yesterilay. Police are convinced he shot himself. ROME.—Minister of F'nance de Stefan! announced tn the chambers today that the $10,000,000 loan float- ed in the United States would be jerman embassy and the French PAGE FIVE ROME.—Premier Muscili today ordered tho chambers to meet Janu- ary 3 to discuss the proposed new electoral law, under which general elections will be held !n March. -_— Minneapolis clubwomen have an- nounced the purchase of a site for a clubhouse to be erected at a cost of $250,000. oo MAKE IT a big day for the. littlo tots. Read the “Gifts for Children” columns in the Classified Section anJ fin! just what they want. DON’T FORGET THE BERKSHIRE FOR SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST. E. R. 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