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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
TED LEWIS SEEKING BOUT WITH LEONARD
 FOR BENNY'S TITLE

Ncw York. Aug. 11.---Chariey liar ~ey. manager of Tcd CFSid) Lewis. rhe former welterweieht champion, is anxious 10 hook up his battlcr with Benny Leonard. the lightweight title holder. IL seems that Billy Gibson, manager of Leonard. has challenged Mike ODowd. the middieweSst- king. and this has caused Harvey to bust out with the following stntcment:
 Why does Leonard want to fight O'Dowd7 I>st him fight Lowfs first. Lewis hes already beaten O'I5owd ara also shaded Leonard in their eight-round bout in Newark. I have a proposition to make Cybeon. Let Leonard and Lewis meet first and then the winner can fight the middle weight champion.
 Ever since Lewis outpointed Ieon- ard. 8ibson has been duckins a match wi:h my lighter. l have three clubs that arc anxious to put these men on. and if uNbson thinks his champion can boat Lewis I'll make the match on a wfnnsr-taks- t,usis,
 Leonard fights Irish Patsy Cline in Philadelphia tonight, Lewis will be at ths rinsstde to chadiehsa the win ne While I believe Benny will win, Cline can have the fish' with Lewis if he is returned the winner"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
LOCAL BOY THOUGHT UMPIRE OUGHT TO
 GIVE HIM CHANGE

Wild Bill Donovan, who pilots the Jersey City team, in the Interna tiona1 circuit. always has a couple of good baseball stories under his belt. Dono- van is having his troubles with his team this year, injuries and poor pitching handicapping him in his at- tempt to get out out of the cellar.
 Donovan had a big lad name d Murphy playing first base. Tom De- neville, the regular first sacker was laid up with a bad leg and Murphy was signed to take his place. Mur- phy, weighing more than POO pounds and reaching higher than six feet, couldn't seem to hit lick and Don
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
EBBETS BUYS NEW PLAYER TO BOLSTER
 UP BROOKLYN CLUB

Now York, AHg. Il 11---Charies II, E.bbets, president of the Brooklyn Baseball Club, yesterday announced he had purchased the reieesn of La fayette HeHion, a right hand pitcher, from the Moose Jaw club of the Western Canadian League, While the Dodgers recently were in the West, Jeff FHfeffer took a flying trip to Can ada to look over Henion, and his fla vorabie report resulted in Jobets closing the deal
 Henioa also is highly recomm end ed by Charles Aoii, manager of the Winnipeg club, Henion is a steoky chap, standing feet. 10 1-3 inches in his socks and tipping tho beam at 175 pounds. Moii writes that Eenlen is . smart player, of excellent habits and has a roseate baseball future,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
Cravath and Iris Speaker Are Only
 Playing Managers
(sPORTNG NEwS.o

Iris Speaker and Gavvy Cravath are outfieIdsrs, wonderful battsrs and mana gers. They being the only playing managers in the big leagues today. their cases are quite similar, The one glaring difference is in the stand ing of their respective clubs.
 When Speaker was manager in mid-season the club was in their place and was recognized as a pen nant contender, while Cravath's club, the PhiIIies. was far down the list of the National Lea sue with no chance for a flag
 Baseball fans are keen1y interest ed in these two managers. Both are Tery popular with the fans. Hard hitters in baseball always were pobu- lar even on the playing field of the enemy, This pair, moreover, are men of personality that appeals to the public, They are steady, loyal per formers, do not presume to have tenn perament just because they are two stars.
 There have been outfieid managers before in the big leagues and when calling attention to this point one first thinks of Fred Clark of the Worlds Champion Pittsburgh Pirates of ten seasons ago. There have been few better managers in the big lea gues. Fielder Jones was another of the famous eutfieid managers. Jones always said he preferred to manage the club from the outfield as 1t was the one point of vantage for a man. ager to watch the working of the whole team,
 Ball players naturally look up to their manager. If he is man who can think better than they, he gains their respect. In the case of the past and present outfieid managers each had something on his teammates in think- ing ability and in playing ability.
 Cravath foF yeafs has been ths foremost batting figuFs in the bfa-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
LABOR CONTEMPT ATES GOVT. CONTROL,
 OF BANKS AS WE'LL AS R. R. PROPERTIES

continues. At the same time 1t Is imperative in the interest of economy
 and efficiency and as means of de-
 creasing the inflated cost of living, that the returns to the owners of the capital invested in the transportation industry shall not exceed the amount actually necessary to secure their in vestment, and shall not be paid upon | fictitious capitalization. Treatment of the railroads as instruments for finan- cial exploitation must cease. Public
 service, not private profit, should be the animating motive of railroad ad-
 ministra tion.''
 | The committees which are to be ap- pointed to report at the conference will be composed. of three groups. The first will be engineering and tech nical experts, who will take up the plans in regard to their economy and efficiency. The second will be com
 posed of legal authorities, to report on the legal and constitutional ques- tions involved, and the last will be composed of economic and financial experts to consider the Soundness of the various plans from a financial standpoint.
 While plans for railroad manage ment are being discussed the situation in regard to the imm ediate strike of railroad employees for higher wa ges seems to have cleared considerably. Bert M. Jewell, acting president of
 the employees, said today that he had received word from 65 different points in the country that approxi- mately 475, 900 out of 500,000 mem bers of the organiza tions were work ing. In a telegram sent from the
 organization headquarters Jewell in sisted that men still out return to work at once.
 That the holdouts on the stri6e may finally be brought in by the i'm formation that they will receive none of the benefits of the proposed new wage scale, Is the belief of the acting president. The union would have to go along without them, he said, since they refused to stand by the organiza- : ton laws.
 'The men who finally don't go back to work won't participate in the | things granted,'' he declared.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11

Chief Justice Clark of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, whom Will liam Jennings Bryan named 0 few years ago as a satisfactory candidate for President of the United States. has been adopted as the leader and spokesman of the new cult. His first act was to blow the horn for all the radicals of the Nation to assemble here the first week of October to i'm press upon Congress the force behind the demand for the Plumb plan.
 A striking feature Of the present camp meeting is the speed with which the radicals and professional friends of the people came together after they heard of the Plumb plan. Every state in the nation sent it's coterie of agitators. Many serious minded ad- vocates of government ownership of public utilities came here to press for action, but they were soon out numbered by the Populists.
 A canvass of the Republican lead CTS of Congress indicates that they will have nothing to do with the Plumb plan. Government ownership and employees operation of the rail- roads is too risky an experiment to make in the present time of unsettled affairs with the biggest industry in the world, in the opinion of Chair man Esch of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee MT. Esch also stated it should not be con- fused with industrial democracy" as instituted by some plants, providing for a. government patterned after that of the United States. with representa- ton for employees.
 "I do not see any resemblance to industrial democracy in the Plumb plan" said Mir. Esch. The latter simply provides that the Governm ent shall own the railroads and that they be operated by directorate of fifteen members, ten of whom represent the employees, and the employees share the profits
 MT. Esch does not believe the Plumb plan is the Russian Soviet plan of running industry. The Plumb plan corresponds to that only in so far" he said, "as labor Is called in to operate the roads. ownership being in the roads. In Russia prop
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11

Washington. Aug. 10-The plan of organized labor to nationalize the railroads of this country extends not only to other great industries. but contemplates the inclusion of banking. According to information reaching Senators the present movement for Soviet control of transportation is only the beginning in a comprehensive plan to develop this arrange eunept in sequence. favored by opportune con ditions.
 The first general warning of the program said to have been adopted Sor widespread standardization was given by Senator King. He received his Information from labor leaders of prominence in his own state of Utah. Similar advtoes subsequently, came to Senator Borah and others. Ono Sen ator already has been approached or the subject. It is indicated that q general dri"c may soon be in pro gress along well defined lines that have been approved heretofore by la Dor leaders throughout the country.
 T. IS iEtcnscd. according to thc pro gram az related to Senator KirE and sorne Of hts associates. tha; any tia-up of tr1r17 rrtation. possibly followed by suffering and hardships of ali kinds, Wi result in Government ownershfp Of tho r7ilronds. If some method of joint domination by the Governm ont, tho employees and the public is not rnnde operative.
 When winter comes on the nation allzHtic1 of ail local mines will he de- Tnanded. presumably heraldc'.s by proposed strike of miners. A suS- gcstion will he offered that the Gov
 7mcnt es-uno full control of the mines. This proposition differs tri- f1e from that connected with the rail-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
SENATORS TOLD OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO TAKE OVER ALL UTILITIES AND FORGE ACTION IN GOAL hAINES

roads in that 1t is contended that the management and operation of coal mines must Ne left to these most fla miliar with such work. This mean that the taxing out If coal would be supervised by the United Wine Work CTS of America.
 The third step would come in the spring. It is intended then to insist that the Government take over all the banking facilities of the country and manage them for the people and in their interests. The idea is that all the profits HOW coming to the bankers would fell to the government, thereby lessenins the cost of living and more equitably distributing all the various benefits that come from enjoyment of the privileges extended by the banks.
 The fourth step in the chain of na- tionalizatiou has not been indicated It merely is explained in connection with the three pending propositions indicated that the standardization Of land would not be taken up until other matters have been adjusted. It is inferred by Senators that the al lotment of land is not abandoned as workable idea, but inSistence upon that feature is postponed to some more favorable opportunity, after the three matters at issue have been sat isfactorily arranged.
 The Plumb plan to have the Gov ernment buy the railroads and turn them over to the workers promises to become a national political issue. A call for a mass meeting of the advo- cates of the proposition in October has been issued. Realizing that they have struck 2 snag in Congress the Plumb bites will retreat from the capi- tai and return with larger army in the fall.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
THOTH, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
 GOD OF LITERATURE

Ancient Egypt was the light of the world. The first of the month, Thoth, in the moveable Egyptian year, dedt- cated to the great god of Letters, of the Egyptian Pantheon, corresponds, as Pliny intimates, with this day of the month of August in our Julian calendar. August II. It would seem from the records that the entire month of August was under the pro- lection and patronage of this most
 benef1cent and solemn d1ety in the lofty worship of the Ancient Egypt
 ia ms in their temples on "God-intoxi- cated Nile" Thoth was not only the Inventor of Letters, and the means of communication between gods and men: he was not only the god who first discovered numbers and the science of reckoning-geometry and astronomy-also the games chess and checkers, but he was the solemn scribe who registered the action and life of man while on earth. and the actions of the departed in the mys- terious realms of the Dead. He pre- sented these to Osiris greatest of all the Egyptian dieties and Judge of the Quick and the Dead Thoth was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis holding a tablet and a palm branch in his hands. In one of his characters he
 corresponded to the moon and wore its disk upon his head. He was wor- shiped at Hermopholis and with spec ial rites August II as the diefica-
 ton of the intellect. On the famous Rosetta stone In the British Museum, London, whose discovery in Egypt in
 the early nineteenth century furnish ed the first and sole key to the inter pretation of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. Thoth, the God of Letter Is
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11

erty Is condemned for the whole peo- pie, and land in the same way"
 Other members of Congress believe the Plumb plan goes further than So- cialiSm, because it provides that the Government shall buy the properties and turn them over to a certain class of operatives, virtually setting them up in business. It's supporters, in c1uding officials of the American Fed eration of Labor, eventually would take over other industries
 Representative Small Democrat, North Carolina) declared today he did not believe the rank and file of railroad employees are truly represent ed by their leaders. AS American citizens he said, they must realize that mutuality of interest must ac- tuate all of us in our relations with one another and with the Govern ment. No organization of men in any vocation can set themselves up above all the people or their Government In my opinion Congress will never again be coerced into legislation by a threat from the railroad employees and I hope the President will take a sim liar position"
 Investigation will probably be made by members of the House Interstate Commerce Committee of reports that radicals constitute the working forces in the Plumb Plan League.
 In a statement issued yesterday af- ternoon, Judge Clark announced that all the plans submitted to Congress by representative of railroad security owners property owning groups and the plan of the railroad employees would be tested and analysed at the proposed conference. Three funda- mental principles for the operation of the roads in the future are laid down by Judge Clark. They are:
 First---The providing of transport ation at actual cost.
 Second---The provision for a share by the workers in the management and in the profits arising from in creased efficiency.
 Third---Protection of private prop erty actually invested.
 The rights of private property ac- tually invested in the provision of transportation service for the public must be protected" the statement
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
WHO SAID N. Y. COPS" WERE POOR;
 FIFTY OWN CARS

Nsw York, Aug, S-At least fifty New York policemen own their own autom obiles it was learned today, whom in response to @. request from the police department that members of the force who own ears lend them for emergency use in the case of strike disorders in Brooklyn, half a
 hundred motor ears were forthcom- ing, The owners can operate their own cars if desired and in addition to supplying them with oil and gas- olins the department will pay them ST.5o a day for ths hire Of the ma chimes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11

ovan was forced to part company with him.
 In game at Rochester, Murphy had made hit and was sliding into second base. It looked as though he had the bag, but the umpire ruled him out.
 Walking up to the umps, Murphy looked down on him and whispered in a Low voice:
 Why don't you give me a chance; I'm only a local boy trying to get along"
 Tommy Corcoran was the umpire and he nearly tumbled over when Murphy reproached him in such g strong manner for calling him out
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11

called '"T~ice-Great'' and ''the estHb- fisher of millions of years' viz, the Immortality of Great Lftreature Ancient Egypt was the light of the world. She first gave to the world the idea of and positive belief in the immortality of Great Literature the world its architecture, explorer and ruler and advisor of Kings-the New Woman in Ancient Egypt- Queen Hatasu, who dug the first Suez Canal, antedating de Lessups by 4.oOO years.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
GERMAN GOVT
 FINDS PLAN FOR
 GENERAL STRIKE

Berlin. Friday, Aug. s.---fBy A. P) 1.-The government announces the dfs- covery of an extensive secret strike movement, which, if successful, will lead to a general railroad strike in Central, and perhaps all, of Germany on September 1. Sparticist and Com- munist agitaters are charged with be- inr the leaders of the movement, which the government is using every means to suDDrsas.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
HOW ID GET RID OF RHEljNAT|SM ''iIuit-a-F|vgssss' EGIst the Way
 fO Qlhek Relief

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 When I had given up hope of ever being well s.:.a;sa, g friend recom- -aended Fruit tives' Ger F,-n1t Li0e,- I6dEe&sl to me and after using the first box felt SD much better that continued to take them and TOW am enjoying the best of health.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11

tional League. He is slow on his feet but manages to field his position ere ditably. Speaker is both a star at bat and in the field. Their playing will be an inspira ton to the other men on the team.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11

Games Today. Bridgeport ct New Haven. Waterbury at Providence. Worcester at Springfield. Pfttsfcid at Hartford.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
BASEBALL
 Slgs..a1,ssH
EASTERN LEAGUE. XnC4n-,IaU rnznIfa

Yesterdays Results. Worcester 3-2, Bridgeport Is. Providence l, Springfield 0. Fittsfield ', New Haven 4. Hartford 9, Waterbury 6.
 Saturdays Results. Bridgeport 6-2, Providence 5-1- Pittsfeld 5, Worcester l. Springfield 7-11. Hartford 2-3. Waterbury 4-3, New Haven 2-4.
 Sfnndin1 of Teams
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11

Games Today, Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. No other teams scheduled.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterdays Results.

Chicago 2, New York 0. Cincinnati 3, Philadelphia 2. Pittsburgh 5. Brooklyn 3. Boston 6. St. Louis l.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterdays Results.

New York II, Cleveland 1. Chicago ]. Washington 0.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
CORRECT
 TIME

A watch that won't keep correct time is worse than no watch at all.
 To the busy man of today a reliable time piece is most essential.
 Cur watches are perfect time keep CTS and our prices the lowest.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-15
WILMA AND WARSAW PROTEST

London. Aug. 6.-(By !. J. p. b.
The Jewish community at Gina made
public a protest against the search
that was made at the house Of Rabbi
Rubenstein under the pretense that
they had fired upon soldiers from the
Rabbits house. In the protest il is
denied that they had fired from Rabbi
Rubenstein's house and it is stated
that to search in the Rabbits house for
ammunition is an insult to the whole
community.
In many circles in Warsaw it is de-
manded that the government make an
investigation Of the whole matter and
that the guilty ones should be punish
ed for insulting the rabbi OF wilma.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-15

out by troops Of General Gregorieff,
Russian Bolshevik leader, which
are occupying that city, is reported in
advices received by semi-official Pol
ish sources. The Jewish quarter was
surrounded by the troops it is declar-
ed, and a massacre was begun from
which no one escaped. The entire
quarter was for three days and nights
in the hands Of the Russian soldiers,
the adviceS assert.
The Jews of the Ukraine and Bes-
Sarabia, il was added, have proclaim.
ed mourning period Of fourteen days.
General Gregorcff entered Odessa
early in July after severe fighting,
and at the time was quoted as saying
that he was ready to join the Allies
in a combined attack on the Bolshe-
wiki, if the latter began an offensive
on the DnieSter River
Cecil b. llarmsworth, British Under
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said in
the House Of Commons on July s that
General Gregorieff was stated to be
strongly anti-JcwIsh in his sympa.
thies.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-15
l2O. 900 REPORTED KILLED IN
UKRAINE.

One hundred and twenty thousand
people are reported to have been kill
ed as the result Of pogromS in Ukraine
during the month Of June. These are
the figures given in cablegram re-
ceiyed by Louis Marshall from Leo
Motzkin secretary Of the Jewish dele
gatts at the peace conference The
cablegram stated:
"Zuckerman arrived and confirms
former communications. He reports
new and terrible pogroms which oc-
CURED during June at kaminetz, Pod
DISK, Kitaigorod, Ourinine, etc. The
latest news is certified by three rab-
bis and by other Jewish representa-
tiveS Of khotine. | know these meh
who are from the Ukraint.
They state that altogether 10000
have been killed. In Proskurof alone
1864 inhabitants and numerous pass.
ing people have betn killed and 1000
were wounded.
Among the killed were 500 school
children
Mr. Marshall said he had learned
that the French Government had sent
a commission into the Ukraine to in
vestigate conditions, and that the Jews
would probably do likewise.