The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1925, Page 1

| WEATHER FoREcAsT | FORECAST For Bismarek and vicinity: Part- ly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1$ THE BISMAROK TRIBUNE [fan 25 PRICE FIVE CENTS 1TTKNOWN DEADIN ALABAMA TORNADO -REASSESSMENT REVEALS” $40,000 NOT ON ON BOOKS VALUATION OF BISMARCK IS GIVEN BOOST Gross Inequalities in Original | Assessment Have Been Disclosed MANY CHANGES MADE County Commissioners Will Meet November 4 to Hear All Grievances The reassessment of the cit Bismarck, which was ordered severa weeks ago by State Tax Commission- er T. H. H. Thoresen, has been com- pleted and the record of the assess- ment was certified to County Audi- tor Frank J. Johnson of Burleigh county today. The county comm sioners will meet in special session the court house on Wednesday, 0 vember 4, immediately following their} regular November meeting, to equal- ze the property re: hear all. grievance * in regard to the rea | complaints se: commissioners and this was publish- ed_today. a The special assessment was made without any expense whatever to. the city of Bismarck, according to Tax Commissioner Thoresen, and was made with but one object in view, that of securing’an equitable assess- ment in the city and the laying of proper foundation for equitable: sessments in the future. While it is believed that there are sim) equalities in the assessments of man other cities and villages of the sti Bismarck was selected for the ré sessment because the officials of the state tax department were here sand reassessment, Mr. Tho! was made by entirely disinterested ties and by men who are thor- * oughly miliar with work of — this kind, since they devote their entire time to it. The assessors are also ex- perienced lumber men and contrac- tors and were therefore able to dete e the true value of all buildings : building in the city has be ured and minutely examined nstruction and finish, the com- tates, thus giving the a: knowleage of their exact; value and worth. The Methods Followed “The special assessor, in valuing business and residence’ structures,” | transportation a statement issued by Tax Com- joner Thoresen, “has followed mi a number of the larger cities of the country. Structures were class according to the type and materials of construction, and all structures of the same class were valued at the same rate per cubic foot, the valu: ation being based on the average e perience as to the cost of constru tion of such type of building per cubie foot of contents. In determin- ing present values it was, of course, necessary to take into account the age of the structure and the deprec value of the same. “The total valuation of the city, as reassessed, has been increased slightly. Approximately . $40,000 of property which had escaped taxation has been added to the assessment roll, In making the reassessment it was found that the original assess- | ment was made at considerably less” Gov, Ed J ceed the late ssessed and to! sment. County | Auditor Johnson has prepared aj notice of the special meeting of the} lis eh [to the governors at the conference | tificates and interest at ‘that we get actively behind the pro-| per annum upon the subsequent} inot only to North Dakota but to th entire territory. Our problems are the system of valuation in effect in! ied | ‘ricultural development. but wel by the county jshould have an indust Vi ted cost us too much to get our manu-| at six per c New SENATOR EMMONS OOURT SM REVERSED ON on Back Taxes Only at Rate of 6 Per Cent BIG LO."5) TO COUNTIE A linquent Taxes Will Save Thousands of Dollars Reversing a decision by the E mons' county district court the su TAX QUESTION! Counties Can Collect Interest! Hostilities Reported Still in Property Cwrers With De-; preme court today held that ¢ are entitled to receive inte back taxes prior to 1923 only rate of six per cent a y time the taxes became due. The question wi court in the case of the State N on behalf of Arth inistrator of the R. Robinson, above, Indian- lawyer, has been appointed b: son of Indiana to suc- amuel niston in the Senate. ate | Jof Mary Cole vs. the board of coun- | ty commissioners, treasurer and au | ditor of mmons county. It was of far-reaching importance as it will affect. payment of thous- ands of dollars in back taxes which | have been held up pending the su- i | Preme court's decision. The questi sue was the con- stitutionality of law passed — in ' i the act, which will expire Cheaper Transportation IS tation on November 1, 1925, hack | akota’s gt {taxes bought in by counties may be! North Dakota’s Greatest paid with interest at the rate of six | Need, Sorlie Says per cent instead of a five per cent penalty and a maximum 12 per cent interest. which Emmons county at- on in making the; tempted to collect in the case pre- awrence waterway sented to the court. will be asked by! Sorliie at the meeting of | project Gov. A. G. Saving For Property Owners 'governors of the middle and north-' In the opinion, which was written western states at Sioux Falls, Chief Justice Christianson, it was} .D., this week, . ed that “the precise point in the “What we in North Dakota need dispute between the parties is wheth- more than anything else to reach er Emmons county is entitled to re ‘the place which we should occupy cover only interest at the rate of s per transportation which enable us to get to the rkets of certificates and subsequent taxes or the world on a comp: “ia five per cent penalty and interest said the governor. “Cheap water] at the rate of 12 per cent per annum tes will do it and IT will suggest, upon the amount of its sale cer- 2 per cent it| @ court's decision means a loss sands of dollars in revenue te lly every coun counties had bought in posal to connect the Great awrence and push s rapidly as we are able. “It will be a big economic help! tax certi much the same as the problems of|tion of collecting the higher rate of neighboring states and cheaper] interest on taxes due. At the : is one of the things! time it means a saving of thousavds which concerns us all alike, of dollars to property owners whose More Industries Needed taxe delinquent for 1923 and} “If we were sufficiently close to] prior $. the world markets we could look The Statute forward to an industrial develop-| The statute which was upheld ment in North Dakota which would] reads in part as follows: “Realj be of great value. We have by nojestate sold the county for taxes of means reached the limit of our ag-!1923 or any prior ye: d still held t the time this act i develop-| takes effect may be redeemed on ment which would go hand iin hand} payment of the amount for which it ‘with progress in agriculture. De-| was sold at tax sale together with ins {spite our natural resources of lig-| terest thereon at six per cent per |nite, clay and other materials we} annum from the date of sale plus the are not an industrial state because] amount of all subsequent taxes held it is too far to market and it would} hy the county with interest thereon nt per annum from the factured products to the consumer. | date on which such subsequent taxes “Diversified farming is meeting] became due. No penalty shall, in the need for year-round occupation] such s: be charged, either upon for our people to some extent but} the amount for which the land was not nearly enough. For too many] sold at tax sale nor upon such sub- of our people the winter is a period] sequent taxes. It shall not be re- when no \profitable occupation is| quired that the 1924 taxes be paid open to them, If we had indus-| at the time of making such redemp- tries wherein the farmers could} tion but, in order to be entitled to than the true and full value of find work in. the winter it would] redeem at the low rate specified the property assessed. In view of the , fact that the equalization of all other | }25j,0 cities had been completed for the, year 1925, no attempt was made to increase the total assessment above the average rate of valuation found toj have been used in the o: sessment. As compared sessment of Bismarck as left by the 1925 State Board of Equalization, the By NEA Service. village of Lawford 1s ruled ent ly by women. This pretty little Essex hamlet has a woman in every reassessment shows the following available official post. ut the entire state on a better herein, such redemption must be made not later than November 1, 1925.” Es i Law Providing e- Sterilization of _ Inmates Invalid ENGLISH TOWN i RULED BY London, Oct. 26.—The Engli The men are so used to the wom-| North Dakota's sterilization law, “ he Residence, structures have been en's rule that they think it] insofar as it. permits of the steriliza- decreased $134,575.00. increased $368,475.00. s ‘strange that anyone should question] tion of imbeciles, habitual criminals “Business structures have been their authority. and other inmates of state institu- The rector, who with the under-| tions without their consent is invalid, “Stocks of goods and merchandise, taker and the digger of graves. are Attorney General George Shafer held and other items of personal property the only- men to hold important the reassessment order positions, says of the hamlet, “Most! istration here. of the men ie the village work Pe Request for the opinion was made ee three oe, away ing in the vil.| bY the state board as the result of a ories. There is nothing recent proposal to make the law ef- included have been increased $32,220.00. Inequalities Disclosed an opinion to the board of admin- “The reassessment disclosed a|lage good enough for them, and] fottive,” Since its passage in 1913 it number of instances of gross in- equality in the original assessment. The primary object of the reassess- ment was to do away with or remedy . this condition. The reassessment dis- closed the fact that in a great majority of instances the cheaper types of residence structures, struc- tures without modern improve- ments, were overvalued as com- pared with the average modern resi- dence. The assessment of moder- ately priced, modern residences on the whole was on a fairly equitable basis. The assessment of the better or higher priced, large modern resi- dences was bad. Many instances of gross inequality and gross under- valuation were disclosed. The re- assessment disclosed that the assess- ment of business structures was at a smaller percentage of true and full value than the assessment of _ resi- dence structures. The assessment of business structures was increased « $368,475. Most of this increase was made on account of vrevious low val- uation of some of the large business structures. The valuation of one bi iness structure was increased from $30,000 to $65.000. Another frofn 0) $2,500 to $15,000. Still another fri $14,000 to $30,000. It was: found a number of such cases” that on a most conservative valuation basis large increases were mnecessary to (Continued on page, fares) ly cloudy tonight aad Tuesday. Colder tonight, County auditor's, state’s _attor- tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight.| asked by the state nadian Provinces while a low pre ure area, accompanied by moderate] In a form letter the railroad tempe: sissippi Valley and Great Lakes re-| for the names of all townshiip gion. Rain occurred in the Great|clerks in order that they might be Lakes region while snow fell at most| informed of the railroad board’s. Pieces in_the upper Missis: le; and northern Rocky Mountain region. | perous crossings. ‘The response has Generally fair weather prevails f throughout the South and in the ex-| board member, said and promises to treme West. do thuch to. reduce the number of there. rece sane left to fill] nas been a dead letter on the statute books. At a recent conference of the directing heads of state institutions e the governor was asked to appoint a \] committee to suggest changes in the | Weather Report 1 ome: emit Steins but no steps to that and have yet Temperature at Ta. m.......++ Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation to 7 a. m. . Highest wind velocity . been taken by the executive. Officials Asked | WEATHER FORECAST For Assistance in For Bismarck and vicinity: _Part- Crossing Marking For North Dakota: Partly cloudy neys and township clerks have been ilroad board Weather Conditions to cooperate in designating stop A high pressure area, accompanied} crossings at dangerous intersec- by cold weather extends from the|tions of highways with railroads kotas northwestward over the Ca-|and in seeing that motorists obey the signs when they are erected. ures covers the upper Mis-| board asked the state’s attorneys sippi Val-| plans and help in educating the nd in the middle! Public ‘to obey the stop signs dan- the Dakota en good, Fay Harding, railroad ORRIS W. ROBERTS, | grade cro: ‘ing accidents in North OBicial in Charge. Dakota, inties| on! at the} ar from the! presented to the | 1925 which the district court had! declared void. Under the terms of! by limi-| feounetts to cease will per cent per annum upon the tax! |of the troubled dis | Bulga in the state | riping utes with the anticipa-| LEAGUE MEETS Scandal Harsh Price To Pay for F ‘reedo — TO KEEP PEACE’ IN EUROPE Progress Between Greece and Bulgaria GREECE WANTS APOLOGY , Balkan States W That War Moves Are Now Out of Fashion Wid, wiTHDpRaw, London, Oct. Exchange Telegraph's dikcnpene respondent reports that the Grecks and Bulgarians, acting at the instance of Rumania, withdraw their troops beh their respective frontiers. RST SE: ON BRIEF . Oct. —The first sitting of the League of Nations council, called to consider the Greece-Bulgarian crisis, was ex- tremely brief. The members as- xembled at 6 p. m,, and adjourned 35_minutes later. The ‘council adopted a resolu- tion giving Greece and Bulgaria 24 hours in which to inform the council that orders have been given for the withdrawal of troops inside their frontiers, and 60 hours to inform it whether the evacuation has actually been carried out. The council meeting was dramatic and closed with the Greek and Bul- representatives in open con- tion as to the facts of the con- lict and the present state of affairs tional border. Foreign Minister Briand, who had —t ; recovered from his indisposition suf- He ntly to preside, asked both sides whether their governments had obey- ed his request, as president of the hostilities and with- behind their respec- aw their tro} frontier: Oct. (AP) At last ac Feounts hostilities were in progress jalong the Macedonian frontier be (tween the reeks and i The Greeks were reported throwing shells into various pai ans from points of vantage were declared to be carrying out excited rush of the frenzi lace in the war-torn ar their es! as to make bullets. the Bulgarians’ were rushing up re- nforcements with which to counter- act the Greek invasion of Bulgarian territory. Greece Demands Reparations Greee her troops have taken from the Bul- gars until full satisfaction has been and apology from Bulgaria. The fact that Rumania, Czecha-Sla- via apparently will remain neut in the conflict has created a feeling of satisfaction here. Czecho-Slov- akia and Rumania already have an- nounced their neutrality and the Belgrade government has ordered that an invasion of ugo Slavia by the belligerents be prevented. One new feature of the situation which is causing some misgivings is a report that Agrarian leaders op- posed to the Bulgarian government have arrived at the frontier at Zari- brod, with the purpose of harassing the government while it has its hands full in dealing with the Greeks. Wars Are Unfashionable With scarcely breathing time af- ter their Locarno security pact la- bors, Aristide Briand, president of the council of the League of Nations, and Austen Chamberlain, the Britis! foreign secretary, again are ready to aid in putting Europe’s house in order and keeping it peaceful. In the famous clock hall of the French foreign offices it is their purpose diplomatically, though unequivocai- ly, to make it plain to the Balkan states though the League of Na- tions that war moves already are out of fashion in the new European at- mosphere of conciliation and recon- struction which the Locarno deli- berations brought about. GREEKS PLAN LONG STAY IN BULGARIA Vienna, Australia, Oct. 26.—()— Advices from Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, declare that ‘the Greek troops at all points are digging in and strengthening their positions, appar- ently for a long stay on Bulgarian 80 arly this morning they are report- ed to have occupied a new position south of Petrich, which hitherto had been in the hands of Bulgarian troops. A number of persons were killed or wounded in the Greek bom- bardment of Pipernitza and Petrovo, about 15 miles north of Demirhissar. A heavy rainfall is making the plight of the refugees pitiable, as many of them are forced to camp in the open without the slightest shel- ter. The Sofia authorities again give categoric denial that there is a single Bulgarian soldier on the Greek soil. LABEL LIVE WHALES London.—Live whales are being la- belled to determine their migratory habits. The label is placed in a bot- tle. ‘The bottle, attached to a barb, is fired at the whale and the barb penetrates the thick or protective covering. slaveri to li after love is gone rather than pay the price exacted by convention Pastor Stokes, the London who married a millionaire but who Be Told j hn relate “We had such profound differences » while the | operations against the | Greeks. There still continued the ied popu- | * e from the shells and thej the council of the League} jof Nations was gathering to inves-j jtigate the situation and try to bring about harmony, reports had it that |" is id, still adheres to} her threat fe hold all the positions! accorded in the way of reparations |ttibuted as follow: must pay the resident pupils who goes to some other district to take high school work, year jects to complete the grade work. The pupil should not be penalized by being compelled either to pay its own tuition, or spend a whole year in its local district to complete two subjects,” BY GENE COHN NEA Service Writer New York, Qet. 26.--Se dividual must price th ciety for freedom can leag only to soni bankruptey And soul pauperdom leads to an vement far worse than most. together in indecent wedloc’ This is the warning of Mrs, Rose slum girl went on fighting the battles of the and the radical and the It rises from her recent xperiences when, under the New York divorce laws, her husband had no affair ot course but to allege a love in the eves of the world. “But the real scandal is a divorce law which brings such a situation to pass.” Mrs, Stokes points out. “The mantle of shame seems to fall u the defendant, but it should be p ed upon the shoulders of th ¢ it properly belongs.” ‘Thus is raised again the old, old yn which ig more scandalous: quest the husband and wife who continue to live together when love has d or the man and woman who live love outside of wedlock? “Mr. Stokes and IT had been ue more than friends dur portion of ony marriage of opinion that noth ot us suttered from the domestic and personal sit- s that develop, T wanted to ven when lL lived under the same roof. | begged him to give me my freedom.” The whole lif been a fig saw it. of Mrs. Stokes has for freedom as she ‘DEATH TOLL FROM AUTOS DECREASING : Fewer Fatalities Result of Lighter Travel With Win- ter’s Approach Chicago, Oct —(P)—With the approach of winter the automobile death toll is deere due to lighter travel, particularly long distance movements, Automo- a d 89 deaths in nine tern states last than 100 for the 1 Few automobile mist ps were re- ported over the week end, the most ng at Milton, Penn., Purdue University were killed and three injured when an automobile in| iving to a dance! |which they were driv at Lafayette, Ind., overturned. The death for the week were dis- Ohio 24; Indiana 19; Illinois Michigan and souri 8 each; Tex: Minnesota 7; sas one each. MINNESOTA HAS Seu AUTO DEATHS . Paul, Oct, 26. Lye —Automobile lents in Minnesota last week jclaimed seven victims, bringing the states toll of dead from this source during October to 39 as compared with 30 for the entire month of Sep- tember. The toll for last week, ending at} midnight Sunday, was one more than | for the week previous, while for the week ending October 11 the death list mounted to 15. The number of automobile de indicate that last week's comparat ly low figure was brought about through heavy snows which made roads poor, thereby reducing the number of ‘drivers on the highways. School Without H. S. Facilities Must Pay Tuition School districts whi fer cilit dren living. within they elect to attend high school in neighboring districts, Attorney General Shafer held in an opinion to C, L. Robertson, superintendent of schools at Jamestown. The text of the opinion follows: “We have your favor of the 19th inst. asking for our opinion relative to the right of a high school dis- trict having a standardized high school to collect tuition from the district from whence comes a student who takes two subjects in the high school and two grade sub- jects, the two grade subjects being taken for the purpose of complet- ing the grade work. “We believe it the theory of the law as embedded both in the Con- stitution and in the statutes, that the children within a certain age shall have free public schools and, therefore, that if a district is not hool facilities it furnishing high ion of one of its even though during its first does take some grade sub- It causes men and women | kK side of wedlock. This, as | she points out, constitutes scandal | a girl, Chicago Has Two Bombings Last Night bomb- | troubles, caused here last night. Reeder International Tailoring comp. thorities that y [the bomb was bel a bakery next door. asing, apparently | ‘DOUGLAS MAN Sean ne blinded by snow a dded from a treacherous ro and overturned. His neck was broken. Southern Minnesota again received Louis G. Drummater, Jeweler and Merchant, Found Dead | the brunt in Minneapolis Hotel | Two students of | Louis G. . Da business: | from a bullet! ad in his room at al i He left a note} ted that he Minneapolis, Oct Drummater, Doug] man, was found dea wound in the | hotel here yester is wife which indi has taken his W. Wallerstrom, deputy cor- oner, filed a verdict of suicide ane communicated Douglas who expre that Mr. Drumm mental breakdown Sain suffered a| s the result of ill He was proprietor and general store a WILL DISC MOVEMENT OF N. W. GRAIN CROP) °"" “! aay Thorpe Named to Appear For State in Highway Case John Thorpe, first assistant attor- today was appointed by George Shafer to nt the state highway commis- the} sion in the case i i Sullivan, Bismarck taxpayer, is chal- lenging the validity of the contract Construction Fargo, to pave | trail from Bismarck east to the state penitentiary. Estelle Taylor Back in Movies Oct. 26—A)— of a jewelry| —P) > move-} n crop are | Problems. conn ment of the northw expected to he tak west regional railway ad meeting to be held here Holding of grain car I at sampling points, car supp do not of- to chil- s limits must pay the tuition of such children if! ident of the Great Northern tis L. Mosher of federal reserve bank and J. F president of the Bpreau of Federation. North Dakota Small Grains Being Shipped .to Orient North ing ship- according to H. Da- Farm Fargo, N. Dal Dakota small grain ped to the Orient, kota Agricultural Just recently the Honorable Han isi of Industries for the Sui-Yan District of China,| Babbitt, has been furnished with samples of Ceres wheat and Li flax seed ict. This part of China which the seeds have been sent to is a cold, dry farming country having a 34 to 44 degrees altitude of from 3000 or more feet tude of from annual a nfall about 17 inches. is de- husbandry, erowing such crops as’ millet, linseed, sorghum, potatoes ‘and wheat. pressive and more mobile, says Stein, oats, intere riage, at | then the without th to lt au: Southern Part of S Brunt of Storm—Montana ke | e be rs inches of heavy snow | ported there S | the ground was | inches of slush at Albert Les. ! coating of slush, roads were reported softening tod and few places were able to report ‘good” roads this morning. southern part of the sti and telegraph companies disrupt their iN sudden Sidney exert iterat to New work, millionaire, humanitarian ed | work. The Bat Mrs freedow struggle went on then in labor pacifists a jp She had and sanction the experiencin elements most worth pres eee GOPHER STATE HAS SNOW, RAIN /SLEET igus h of one man, prehension in! pberton was the and sleet re- With the panies were laboring under difficul- ties to maintain their sc Helena, Mont., Oct. 26.—()— ards in some parts companied a cold | snow to most of the northern Rocky | that brought Mountain region and cury down below fr 3 Blizzards were reported at Butte and Anaconda, with the latter town e inches of snow. ent the mer- ney general, and| Attorney G: and the grain situation at| repre Y., will be among points considered. Speakers will include: G Sorlie of North Da-| held by company, Hollywood, Calif., elle Taylor, wife of the heay: weight champion, Jack Dempsey, ‘is returning to the screen as Lucretia Borgia. She is cast in that role in a new picture swinging into production here today. AUSTRALIA HEARS -Australia may adopt the suggestion of Ellwood G. Babbitt and make the kangaroo its trade emblem. is a member Trade Commission to Australia, sees & great opportunity trade in the use of the trade mark on Australian exports. RECOMMENDS FLIRTING ‘an| Chieago—Nine out of 10 eyes need ing, and flirting is about the for Australian best exercise there is, according to all Dr. T. L. Stein, here. To prove his theory Dr. Stein ask: a flirty flapper wearing eyeglasses?” Flirting makes TWISTER HITS 8 COUNTIES- DAMAGE HEAVY Hundreds Rendered Homeless By Terrible Wind Storm. —Wires Down RELIEF WORK STARTED Wind Comes After Period of Intense Heat—Electrical Storm Follows Troy, Ala., Oct. 26.—(AP) —Residents of many portions of Pike, Barbour, and Cren- shaw counties today were en- deavoring to bring order out of chaos that resulted from a tornado which claimed a known toll of 17 lives, in- jured many, rendered home- less hundreds and left thou- | sands of dollars damage in its wake. The tornado seemed to have its origin in Crenshaw county, where it swept down with tremendous force, tear- ing its way acros the breadth of Pike county and on eastward into Barbour, where it appears to have spent itself. Near Luverne, county seat of Crenshaw, two were killed, both of them aged and one { past 100 years of age. The death list could not bc completed as to names, owing to the widely scattered dis- tricts, some of them remote from telephone and telegraph communication, and the gen- eral impairment to wires by, | the tornado. Many Are Injured In addition to two dead fii Crenshaw county there were eight dead in Pike county and seven in Barbour. Of the eight who lost their lives in Pike, four were children of {the same family, while their father and mother were seri- ously injured and are not ex- pected to live. Two other persons of the same famiiy named, Knight, were also in- jured. Iu Barbour county six negroes were killed. Residents near the path of the tornado were aroused by the roar of the twister and the cries of the injured. They rushed into the stricken area in a deluge of rain, working for hours in a search for the dead and giving aid to the injured. The tornado came at the conelusion of a period of in- tense heat and threatening weather of Saturday. It was followed by a severe electri storm. NORTH ATL, ANTIC s S$ HAVE STORM New York Oct 35 trous Sunday gale swept the middle and north Atlantic states. An 85-mile-an-hour — rain-bearing wind caused seven deaths and much property damage in fiv tes. At Woburn, Mass., 500 $s were shattered and troops were called out. Seventeen navy seaplanes were strewn on the bi at Baltimore, with seven demolished. and coastal shipping was demoralized. The New York City: Expectant moth- er dragged from fifth story window by wind whipped clothes line. Moth- er and child died after Caesarian operation, Two fishermen drowned in « capsized motorboat off Rock- away Point. Baltimore: Child killed by falling tree. Patterson, N. J.: Child killed by falling. brick walls. Woburn, Mass.: National guards- man killed by falling tree while re- paring his automobile. = Towns In Darkness Several towns were in darkness last night and others were cut off from wire communication. With 500 houses unroofed or with walls caved in at Woburn and the streets a mass of tangled wires and wreckage, looting began in that city, a residential and manufacturing sub- urb of Boston, and national guard company was called out to keep ord- er. Two women are in a hospital, one seriously injured, by the falling spire of Unitarian church. Sea-faring men in New York said it was the worst storm known in years. PREDICTS STIFF WINTER Paris.—A severe winter is predict- ed for 1925. Father Gabriel, the as- tronomer-priest of France, ‘declares that this winter will be unusually cold. He basis his predictions on the lunar-solar cycle of weather condi- tions,