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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
Differed but Little from February a Year Ago So Far as Temper
 ature Goes.
MORE SNOW ON GROUND
Old Timers Report That They Do Not Recall So Much Snow as Seen
 This Year.

The Weather Bureaus meteorolo- gical summary for the month of February, issued today, shows that the month just closed differed but little from February of last year, so far as the average temperature and total precipitation are concerned. Last year February had mean tenn perature of PIP degrees and total precipitation (rain and melted snow) of 5.91 inches, while this year these values were PA degrees and 5.79 inches, respectively.
 The normal temperature for the month or the average of past years records, is 300, which leaves an av- craze daily deficiency for the last month of 26 degrees. The warmest February on record was that of 1912, when the mean was 373 degrees, and the coldest, that of 1890, with a mean of PA With a maximum of 37 on the 18th and a minimum of 2 on the 18th, the month was devoid of unusual extremes-in this respect in marked contrast with February of last year when a minimum of 15 be low zero was recorded.
 While the amount of rain and melt ed snow was practically the same this February as last, the depth Of snow was much greater than year ago, the totals being 594 and 13.7 inches, respectively. This high total, following an aggregate of 36.3 inches for January, S11 inches for Decem- Der, 23.0 inches for November, and I1.5 inches for October, brings the seasons snowfall up to 201.2 inches, with March and April yet to be heard from It is to be regretted that the Bureau had no complete records of snowfall prior to 1917, so that com parisons might be made with prev ious winters. Old-timers, however, who have been in these parts for 20 years or more, state that they do not recall a winter with so much snowfall as the preesnt one.
 From February 18th to 18th in elusive, there was a period Of de lightfully pleasant winter weather, with bright sunshine and generally clear skies, and recalling similar period last year from the 18th to the 27th. There was 40 per cent. of the possible amount of sunshine, as com pared with 59 per cent. last year.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
RETURN GAME
 OF BASKETBALL
 WITH DOUGLAS

A return game of basketball will oe played this evening in the High School Auditorium and the high school rooters will be out in full force. The game will be between he Douglas Juniors and the team representing the Junior High of Ju- aeau
 In the first game played a few weeks ago at Douglas the Juneau Juniors were defeated and now they lave an opportunity to even affairs oy winning tonight The Douglas 5oys will come over on the 8:30 ferry accompanied by Prof Greene md a good-sized crowd of rooters.
 The Junior team will be picked rom the following local lads; Con- Ter. Peltret, Launer, Alexander, Os- well, Haley and James Bussey who compose the Juneau squad. The game will be called at 745.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
NEW CuPOLA OF FOUNDRY
 GIVEN TRIAL

At the Enterprise foundry the new ,upola was given a fire and heat rial yesterday that proved very successful. The cupalo was designed 5y G. w. Gustafson, the master pat ern maker for the Alaska Gastineau, who designed most of the other new equipment used in the foundry The cupalo is of the continuous .ype of the most up-to-date design with several special features; 1t was built at the Thane Shops and has an inside diameter of forty-two in ches.
 The big cupalo adorns the center )f the new foundry building and is bigger than any stack in Juneau.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
We'll Known Anchorage Resident Gets into Trouble in Seward,
 Alaska.
HE SENT A TELEGRAM
The Cable Censor Was Not Up on Bible Quotations and They Looked
 Suspicious.

Arrested and held at Seward as a German spy was the predicament in which Charles L. Mason, of Anchor age, secretary to William c. Edes chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, found himself, accord ing to a fanciful story in the news papers of MT Masons home town Denver, Colo Because the young man filed at the Seward cable office message in which reference was made by numbers to the chapter and the verse of book in the Bible convey information by secret code to the Germans After having been taken into custody. he could not regain his liberty for several days, as according to the Denver journals 1t took that long for the officials of Seward to find a Bible there as an explanation could be made to them of the innocent nature of the scriptural reference in the cable mes sage.
 otOTy lH OcnVeT FaFeTS
 The story as printed in the Den yer newspapers follows:
 Charles l.. Mason, former super intendent of the Sunday School class es at South Broadway Christian church, Denver. narrowly escaped arrest in connection with spy plot because censors of cable dispatches to and from the United States are not well versed in the Bible.
 Marvin k. Gantz, who succeeded Mason as superintendent of the Sun day school, tells of the embarrass ing predicament his predecessor dis covered himself when government censors in Alaska failed to under stand the import of a congratulatory message containing Bible excerpt
 Greeting and Good Cheer
 Mason is now employed in Alaska and recently attempted to send a message of greeting and good cheer to the Sunday School class during it's annual festival in this city. Tn an effort to save tolls and prevent congestion on the already heavily. burdened cable, Mason conceived the idea of abbreviating Bible text.
 At Seward. Alaska, Mason filed this message to Gantz. Denver:
 Congratulations, Colossians. 2-5
 "'What's the code?' asked an of. ficial in charge at the cable station.
 "Tts a Biblical excerpt, confided Mason
 "Maybe,' retorted the officer. sar. castically, and ordered Mason de. tained as a suspicious person until the code message could be investi- gated.
 After several days search a mis sionary with a Bible was found and apologies from the government off. cers were profuse when the code message was translated thus:
 Congratulations For though ab. sent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, toying and beholding your order and the stcadfastness of your faith in Christ"
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
 BARK SLIDES
 INTO WAVES

A PACIFIC PORT. March 2.-A four-masted barkentine, the first in many years to be built on the Pa. cific coast, slid down the ways and will take its part in cargo carrying hat will "help to win the war" If q name counts for anything, the one given the vessel augers well.
 q christen thee "Conquerer" cried Mrs. James Rolph Jr, wife of San Francisco's mayor who made the jour ney up here on special train.
 "The Conquerer," which is 250 feet in length with a beam of 45 feet, will be able to carry a load of 1850, 900 feet of lumber, or 2,200 tons dead weight.
 Two sister barkentines still are in the course of construction here as we'll as three steamers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
THRIFT STAMP ! !. BL0TTER IS ].
 TELLING STORY

LOS ANGELES, March, 2,.r- The thrift stamp and it's relation to stiS, tory in the war, have displseS3 n part the usual display and bulletin advertising of some ofr a,the~ lcctl business firms, which have given tp their space to help the cambaisA Recently local business hdus3 con, tributed several thousand BlottstS, the printed matter .adorninx them being entirely devoted tQ adyapciAE the thrift movement. Then the man who wrote the blot. ter, and who showed real surprise when asked permission to quote hls words, idealized the thrift stamp ~ follows: hs 1t;, rs,, " "I am symbol of faith. ss ...s4
 "T represent the deinocfacy oftts least and greatest. q am the will of man agaihst thS domination of autocrats. yi'lids, V q. am the ammunition Of a Just cause. x ye. q am the widows rite. ' q represent the eager labor cf it1 tie children. e,& [ "I am the staunch unfailing bull. wark of the Nation. sf ,s "I stand for the glory of the flas.
 q speak the love of my country.T
 "I am economy ''tfrs7 s "---seh respect, J "--Patriotism sr '.
 q AM A THRIFT STAMP."s. '
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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
INDOOR BASEBALL MAY BE TRIED IF
 WINTER HANGS ON

Now that the basketball season is nearing a close the athletes of the city are seeking for further sports in which they may develop and dis play skill Indoor baseball has been suggested by several and is a very practical game especially considering the fact that outdoor baseball will not be possible for some little time owing to the amount of snow that covers Mother Earth in the vicinity of the ball park.
 Coach V. c. Genn of the High School basketball team has express ed himself as being much in favor of an organization of an indoor base ball league wherein a series of games might be played between local and other Channel towns.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02

LONDON: That Germany's big gest submarine drive of the war may be expected in April is de- clared by a naval authority. Ger many is said to have been active the past few months in re-fitting and overhauling her submarine fleet. building bigger boats and mounting powerful long-range guns. British naval officials calmly await any sub marine offensive.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02

[ February g. aFll River, Mass. ~ s Pvt. kinsley c. Hendricks, lnfan- try, pneumonia, February '. Beaver ton, Ore. ..y Sergt. Charles H. Chatterton. h. fantry, pneumonia, January 2S. St, Paul, Minn.
 Civilian Contractor Edward Sim. acys, heart disease, January 2S. Prisoners in Germany fs
 The War Department has received from the Commanding General Of the Expeditionary Forces a cable gram stating that he has been ad- vised by the Red Cross that the fol- lowing men, previously reported as missing after the action of November 1 30, last, are prisoners in Germany Corpl Frank Upton, Engineers, | New York City
 Pvt. Myron D. Van De Mark, Ep- gineers. New Platz, N. Y. , 2 Pvt Charles A. Goeghegan, Engip- eersfi New York City. ,t" fVt marry J. MdSou, E1hSihCOt Ss Jersey City, N. J. .~ 't
 Pvt John Lally. Engineers. Vest chester County, N. Y. "S.H Pvt. Ulrich N. Nancy, Engineers. New York City. -s' <. Pvt. Frank Brooks. Engineers. Bronx, N. r. v ss
 Pvt. Herbert F. Ueltz,, Engineers, Newark, N. J. t',..
 Pvt. Peter J. Tingo, Enstneefs. New York, N. Y.
 Pvt. George H. Seaman Jr.. En. gineers, Woodhaven, N. Y. . 4
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
DISPoSING OF SNOW

Workmen are today engaged in disposing of the snow that has blocked the entrance to the Juneau Cold Storage dock. In several plac es the snow drifted higher than the top of the adjoining buildings and entrance to the fish dock float was very difficult
 All about town people are bus removing snow from the roofs. The rain last night combined with the snow added much weight to the roofs that many feared that the roofs would collapse if the snow were not removed.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02

WASH. Secretary Lansing says q partial agreement has been reach ed between this country and Mex leo, under which the United States will receive metals from Mexico.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
Amsterdam dispatc

LONDON: Amsterdam dispatch says remarkable boom occurred on Vienna and Budapest stock ex- changes, as result of news of peace with Ukraine. Leading securities rose between 20 and 40 kronen.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
cHicHAGoFF IN PORT

The mine tender Chichagoff is in port, having arrived with several passengers who are enroute south. The Chichagoff will return with sup. plies for the mine tomorrow.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02
Special "Yictor1 Ere,

Special Victory Bread" :, We are making Victory. Breadss wheat. rye. barley. oat meal and rice plant. Special on Sunday. Mon day and Wednesday. -5t,pf
 SAN FRANCISCO BAKERv. :,
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02

For the best fresh killed chicken, go to the Arcade.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02

Today's News Today-tn Empire.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02

Good Home Cooking. 36 cents [ meal. Circle City Cafe.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02

Famous Augustine ( ,Keyer, eof,, fee at the Arcade f~.. |.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-02

Dine st the Gastineau. Concert every evening
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
ICE SHORTAGE GROWS
IN SUBURBAN TOWNS
Doylestown, Lansdale and
Other Places Suffer-One
Plant Suspends

Lack of help and the intense hot
weather Of the last two weeks has caused
n serious shortage Ct ice in many sub
urban towns. especially Doylestown,
Newtown and Lansdale.
All purchasers are warned to stretch
their supply to the limit. and in some
cases edalers take recor of each sale.
SO one person may not obtain more
than a fair share.
Many ice plants are unable to main.
tain their daily production because of
defective machinery Delays are en-
countered in making repairs because
help is scarce.
No ice is being manufactured in
Doylestown because of the breaking
down of the plant of Harry S. Funk. A
small amount Of creek ice is available.
This has been stored in small quanti-
ties by few individual residents and
is sold at the regular market price
There was not enough of this to meet
the demand today and it was necessary
for many families to send to nearby
places for supply. The manufacture
may be resumed tomorrow.
There is also a serious shortage in
Lansdale. Dealers there are limitins
purchases.
Residents OF Newtown and other com.
munities have been forced in many in
stances to cool milk and other food with
running water.
Last nights storm added to the suf
fering crippling the telephone service
1t was impossible to order from nearby
places.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
\ TODAY'S MARRIAGE LICENSES

Luther Lawrence. 1929 Catharine st. and
rhSmas MrsT F. Wsms MaFas sss sGs rhomn.sn
Kozmer P, Kolwihsky. s4sa =. ID st.. and
Arden f. Houston. Chicago. nj. and Rosina
7. Amey; :210 Hope st.
John Pinsliey. Baltimore. Md. and Bertha
william j. Neiii aa4S +. Boston ave. and
TlGregss r,,r S,s,,.: n Gsses, Sst5 agate
Alssagdsr bsyis paws :Sss so!s Mourtgin ST. and
James !. poughertw; 282s W. wishart at.
land and sti Ksthrym ANN n Finn 81 y Robinson st
F Bernstein. soi7 y. sad ST. ST., anu FUNNY
JohI k,,ssr Grahsi sio 42s n 9th st. and Lucy h.
RqSsr, + watts y 1,sss n ;', Ss,a st. and Ann.
wats R.sisid R.sss ss AdSas" 5sGSar% 81 st. and
Ashfors isaa aS aadsSn GSSd ST. st. and Maggie
%inii5sd pssi, ss%mTH fSn.nG 2iHi y cIaSio" :
o.%ond ? P4stS %%ss: $aa - M = Erankrn st. and
NJ Farley SIS s. Broad st.
apstays J, Trartmsn Y. ,ss,, $ A., ssso sasS \
Charles Tefsore 2si1 W. Cumberland st.
ana sara I7Ip
Charles w. Dearborn. Chicago. Ill, and
Jean ]. Allen. Camden. n, J.
Adolf Henrickson. 22a5 8. Lee St, and
Anna wehrman. 1112 s. Front St
Joseph r, Furey 43I N. 33d St. and Eliza
beth p. Iaushlin, .s71o Brown st,
Carl J. Hench. Reading. Pa. and Agnes r.
Andrews. ShicksburR. Pa
David Rothstein. S0+ n. 18th St, and Mary
Proper. 31S4 Euclid ave.
Smolin. 500 s. I'D St
william Watt. s3ls LanSaster ave, and
iza hat
William Locket. Y. S. A. sol American ST.
and Jerona b. Perry. 224 Fairmount TIE.
Sam Kieman, si5p suffolk ave. and Sara
Lubin. 261l s. Darien st.
Henry W. Lanman, U. s. N. League Island,
and Anna I. Rueblinser. 5s44 Pemberton
Nathan Levin: all $, I'd ST.. and Edith
Faerstein 1912 =. 4th st.
Max Morganstein. 1929 Cayuga St, and Rose
Turan. 241T $. Sheridan st. ,,oo
CcrnSFt v McNPmee. U. s. NJ, lBoS
wi VIM and Mary A Fell Whining
Frank G. Jefrords eaaS Garrett St. and
Rosemarie Foster. 2a33 Garrett st.
William Kicks. 1105 n, Hancock st. and
Anna Maloney. 11O5 n. Hancock st.
May Demburg 1908 n. Franklin St. ana
Lena Gelmon, 900 Oxford ST.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
DISABLED POLICE TO GO
Mills Summons Forty for Trial to
Purge PAYROLL

Forty city patrolmen today We're or
dered to appear before the police trial
board on charges Of disability.
Assistant Superintendent Mills made
this announcement Immediately after
having been formally detailed by Pub
lie Safety Director Wilson as acting
superintendent. pending the return of
Superintendent Robinson, who has been
commissioned a captain in the army.
In summoning the patrolmen for trial.
Mills declared he was acting to protect
the taxpayers and the Police Pension
Fund.
He said many of the men, after hav-
ing served the city only few years.
became disabled and had been on the
city payroll since-some for fifteen
years
added. prevented appointment Of other
men to their places. thus causing a
shortage Of patrolmen in some districts
The acting superintendent has order
ed patrolmen not to purchase spring
dress coats, the cost Of which Is now
S26.35. He suggested that the men wear
sweaters in the fall. when the weather
Is too cool for summer coats but too hot
Tor AVinter ones.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
ALIEN CRIMINALS
ATTEMPT ESCAPE
100 Men, Including An
archists and I. W. WIS,
Fight Gloucester Guards
DELIVERY FRUSTRATED

Nearly 100 aliens. most of them Grim.
inais. anarchists and I. w. W. members.
held in the Gloucester Immigrant Sta
ton. today tried to escape.
The aliens, arrested in various sec
tions of the country, were taken to
Gloucester recently from Ellis Island and
were awaiting deportation. An unrest
had been apparent for a week or more
and today it developed that a concerted
effort to escape had been conceived and
partly carried out.
According to the plan one OF the
prisoners was to jump from second
story window to create a disturbance
and thus mask the main attempt al
escape. The man made the jump, after
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
CHAPLAIN SHOUTS
FOR SUNDAY BALL
Dickins Tells Engineers
+, He'll Defend 1t, ''by
Lord Harry
MEN NEED RELAXATION
Recreation Necessary, He De.
: clares, After Six Days
Crueling Work
MEN NEED RELAXATION

I'VE have Sunday baseball at the
training replacement camps of the
navy" Chaplain Dickins. of the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard. declared in address
Ing luncheon of the Engineers Club
today. and, by the Lord Harry. as long
as I have anything to do with it mill
tary men are going to continue having
sunday ball as long as they need tt
-. Applause swept the dining room. Chap
lain Dickins did not stand up to speak.
but sat with his arm across the back
Oh his chair and made the gathering
wholly informal. His topic was "Ath-
letic Training for Enlisted Men"
Enlisted men undergoing intensive
training, six days a week. with stretches
sometimes of thirty-six hours without
let-up. reed Sunday ball to relax and
give their interior little training
Drills are all right for arms and legs
but God Almighty has given us more
than arms and legs and the gray matter
of the enlisted man has got to be con-
sidered along with mechanical develop
ment.
81 have umpired some of the Sunday
games played by enlisted men. and
will do it again
The chaplain said it was foolish to
question the need of athletics for en-.
listed men.
Declares Need Great
Intensive training sometimes covers
periods of from twenty-four to thirty
six hours straight work without a min.
ute's rest. After such drilling athletic
relaxation of the kind to make mer
think they are playing, not always work.
Ing, is needed.
ut is the athletic training and moth.
Ing else that has made the men ir
France fight with the sturdiness and
untiring energy that has characterized
their glorious work here.
Another important factor in the
building of the fighting material over.
seas lis the heaAh OF the Americans
But this health has been largely due
too. to the physical development af
forded in athletics while in the training
! and replacement camps"
Mayor Sees No Harm
Declaring he personally could see nc
harm in enlisted men playing Sunday
baseball. Mayor Smith today said his
stand against the leasing of Shibe Parl
by the Government for that purpose was
taken because OF the old Blue Laws"
"The war camp community service
he said. sounded me three months age
OH the project, and l said that per.
sonally l could see no harm in the
Government providing a place for sol
diers and sailors to amuse themselves
with, Sunday baseball, not charging any
admission. But, as Mayor, it is my
duty to see the laws are enforced.
Because of the Blue Laws / did moi
officially approve the plan. However. il
the Government chooses to come here
and take the park for that purpose
leasing it and holding it as Government
property. that is another story. because
] do not believe the Blue Laws are ap.
plcable to Federal ground"
Plans were begun last January b,
o. F.. Mccormick, of the War Cam
Community Service, to provide the Sun
day games.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
DRAFT BOARD MEN
CAN'T RESIGN JOBS
State Headquarters Announces
Compensation Soon for
Local Divisions

Members Of local draft boards who
may seek to leave the national draft
service prior to the registration pro-
posed in the bills pending in Congress.
will not be allowed to do so. according
to a notice issued today by State draft
headquarters A number of designations
have already been received and the draft
officers have issued this caution:
Board members are advised that no
designations can be accepted before
the new registration unless the health
NJ tho man requires it or unless he has
entered the military service"
The headquarters has also issued
notice that in short time new regu-
lations will be issued which VIII pro-
,.jde compensation for local board mem
hers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
BOY ON OUTING BROWNS
Williah Genthert Lost Swimming
at RillingspOrt. n, J..

William Genthert. ten years old. son
of Edward J. Genthert, an undertaken
at 416 West Girard avenue. was drowned
Yesterday while swimming at Billings,
port, n. j., according to word received
here today.
The Genthert family was spending the
summer at Billingsport. The boy is sup
posed to have been seized with cramps
and drowned before aid could reach him.
John Taylor. another cottager, dragged
unsuccessfully for the body all last
night 1t had not been recovered late
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
Elkton Marriage Licenses

EIkton. Nd, Aug. 13.-The following
licenses were issued here this morning:
George Gentner and Mary Lyons. Jacob
Martin and Marie Folk. Charles King
and Ethel and Howard w. Tressler and
MARY Hand, Philadelphia: VILLAIN L.
Smith. Philadelphia, and Lilly z. Fore
acre, Chester, Pa. ; Charles s. Basley,
Columbia. o. and Lillian C. Becker.
Philadelphia Archibald Summeryille.
Atlantic City, and Anna NJ. Kelley.
Philadelphia Horace Dougherty and
Catherine johnson, Camden: William
Handy and Lillian Riley, Wilmington,
Del George H. Reinbald and Irma l..
Miller Allentown. Pa; Edward Jones
and Olive A. johnson, Port Deposit, Md. :
William E. OLeary, Vincentown. n. j..
and Elizabeth Magee, Roxborougn, Pa.
and George F.. Jack Baltimore, and
Fannie l.. CARRIER, Brunswick, Md.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13

slight hesitation, but not before the
soldiers guarding the house had become
aware of the scheme
only one of the aliens reached the
Delaware River from the wharf and he
was covered Immediately by a soldiers
rlne and soon surrendered. The rest
OF the prisoners became frightened and
into the building
once inside, ill-temper at their fail
ure. overcame them and a hand-to-hand
struggle with the soldiers ensued in
which nine of the supposed leaders were
arrested and put in cells. one alien
struck guard with heavy bar and
mad to be subdued by forSe.