Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1931, Page 6

DREISER AND GROUP END STRIKE PROBE Coal Field Investigating Com- mittee to Report of Findings. By the Associated Pres: PINEVILLE, Ky. November 9.— Laden with information of conditions in the Harlan and Bell Counties coal fields of Eastern Kentrv-ky, Theodore Dreiser, novelist. and his bcoudmumbeg separated into two groups today ane Srvled their visit during which they held | mass meetings and interviewed miners throughout the mountains. One group, headed by Dreiser, planned to return to New York and prepare a report which they said will be made public within 10 days. Copies of the report will be given to Gov. Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky, the Kentucky | Bar Association, the press d Senator Norris, who recently was asked by Dreiser to investigate the labor situa- tion in the coal fields. The second group planned to go to Mount Sterling and Winchester to in- terview miners awaiting trial on charges growing out of labor disorders. 'The Cases were transterred from Harlan County on change of venue. Reports Expected. Meanwhile, a separate investigation vas under way by Judge Smith Hays winchester and A. A. Bablitz of Lexington, appointed by Gov. Sampson to visit the coal fields and report di- rectly to him. Two cfficers of the Ken- tucky National Guard, who served as observers during the visit of Dreiser's committee, also were expected to make a report to the Governor. Dreiser's committee of writers con- cluded its inquiry vesterday with a mass meeting at Wallins Creek. a small min- ing community. The author ate and conversed with a group of children in a miners' soup kitchen prior to the meet- ing. During the several days the commit- tee was In session’it heard accounts of conditions from striking miners, a Har- lan County official and others interested in the labor situation. The accounts ranged from denunciations of the offi- clals by miners to accusations of the miners by Commonwealth Attorney W. A. Brock. Mass meetings held during the in- vestigation were marked by bitter verbal attacks by speakers against county offi- cials and coal mine operators. When the committee arrived here 'ast week a group of local residents proposed formation of an opposition committee to investigate the shooting of children by gangsters in New York, and sent telegrams to that effect to several prom- inent New York citizens, including Mayor James J. Walker. The purpose of the committee's visit, as outlined by Dreiser, was to investi- gate what he termed a “reign of terror” in the coal fields. FLEET READY TO CARRY COAST FRUIT ABROAD Scores of Ships Chartered to Take Crop to Ports on Seven Beas. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, November 9.—Scores of ships have been' chartered to carry the juicy prizes of Pacific Northwest or- chards across the seven seas. Much of the fruit will arrive on South American, European and Oriental mar- kets for the Christmas trade. Fifty-six refrigerator ships are scheduled to sail from Seattle during the remainder of this month and December. In all, 66 refrigerator ships loaded 934,680 boxes of apples and pears up to October 31, an increase of 277,603 boxes over the same period of 1930. Shippers said, however, the total ap- ple output from Seattle this year will be at least 25 per cent lower than last season’s Tecord shipping of 5,519,813 boxes, and that the pear output also ‘was expected to be lower, RECITAL BY LINDSAY AND DAMROSCH BILLED Community Institute Announces Noted Poet and Musician Will Be Heard Here. Recitals by Vachel Lindsay and Wal- ter Damrosch will be presented in Washington during the next month un- der the sponsorship of the Community Institute, it was announced today. Lirdsay will appear at the Central Community Center auditorium on No- vember 17 to read a group of his well known contemporary poems, while Dam- rosch will come here December 7. Dam- Tosch will give one of his most-famous dramatic piano recitals, Wagner's “Par-~ sifal” The programs are a part of the edu- cational_activities of the Community Center Department, co-operating with the Public Library, in direction of the Community Institute Special Train to PIMLICO RACES Nov. 2 to 14 BALTIMORE (Weekdays) L. Washington Ar. Baltimore . Week-end round-trip $q.50 Dally Round Trip Fare. tickets on sale Saturday and Sunday. Paralyzed Victim’s Life De- spaired of When Found Buried Among Corpses. Australian Troops Took Suf-| ferer to Hospital, Where | | He Recovered. | German artillery was thundering a tattoo on Paschendaele. | Gunfire, blood-red, splashed the dusk | of a cold, wet Fall day. For hours the Canadian tide had surged onward in a grim struggle for| precious inches of ground. =~ Enemy | positions had been taken, dead marked | the path of the advance. Still the Dominion troops pressed on. Yielding desperately, the Germans intensified their fire. Attackers sought momentary shelter wherever it could be be found. Four men threw themselves in a shallow trench in the lee of an THE EV STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, '“DEAD” WORLD WAR SOLDIER IS VETERANS' BUREAU CLERK s 7 < DELPHOS HARDY. abandoried enemy pill-box. Then there was a terrible roar—an oblivion. Paschendaeie did not fall until the NOVi.)iBER g, 1931. following day, but that blast ended the battle for Deiphos Hardy, now a clerk in the Veterans' Bureau, but then & scout in the 50th Canadian Battalion of_Infantry. Incidentaily, it provided 'im with & collection of obituaries—his own Late that night—it was Octcber 22. | 1917—Canadian stretcher bearers found | with three dead companions, | virtually buried where a shell which | struck a half dozer feet away had' churned up the earth all around them. He was more dead than alive, and thinking the end was but a matter of a little while they placed him on & stretcher and put the burden in a| trench further back, first removing the identification disc Hardy wore. might be turned in to company he quarters with a report of his “death.” Then they turned their labors to oth- ers who seemed to need them more. Found Paralyzed. Twenty-four hours later, Australians coming by found Hardy conscious, but paralyzed, his body broken as though on a rack. Eventually he reached a hospital, but while he was convalescing, his fam- ily already had been advised that he has been killed, and papers in Ohio, Hardy's native State, carried accounts of his death. He finally convinced everybody he was very much alive, and recovered once more, was jusi about to complete a_transfer into the American Army when the armistice interrupted proceed- gs. Hardy, now 40, was working as a| tourist guide at Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies when he enlisted in gg,s: having gone there from Goshen, 0. Wounded Twice. He was wounded on the Somme in 1916 and at Vimy Ridge in 1917, but only slightly. ‘The “show” at Vimy Ridge he recalls was staged on April 8-9, just a couple of days after this country had gone into the war, and scores of Americans in the Canadian forces brought out American flags which they had car- ried as keepsakes, and planted them at conspicous points about their positions. Hardy has been here a year residing with his sister, Miss May Hardy, in the Sherman Apartments, Fifteenth and L streets. He has been attending the Columbia School of Drafting and En- gineering and two months ago got a temporary post at the Veterans' Bureau which has a month to go. Grounded Ship Refloated. LONDON, November 9 (#).—A Lloyd's | report from Dover last night said the American steamer Hybert, which went aground on the Goodwin Sands Friday, had been refloated and was proceeding to Dover. Some of the cargo was transferred to lighters, but much of it was dumped into the sea to enable tugs to pull the ship off the sands. HEART DISEASE FATAL TO SAMUEL A. CLARK Descendant of Samuel Adams De- signed Club House at Saratoga. By the Associated Press. NEW ¥ORK, November 9.—Samuel Adams Clark, 56, architect, died of heart disease yesterday in his room at the Book Club, His body was found by his valet. Mr. Clark, who was a direct descend- ant of Samuel Adams, was a& partner Columbia “Tech” in the firm of Warren and Clark. One of his best known architectural works was the club house at the Saratoga race track. A well known sportsman, | he always was seen at important race meetings. 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