Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1929 — Page 3

ItALKIE' vogue HAS SEOIIEL IN FILM EXPORTS jound Pictures Lead To Complications In European Market By Joseph H. Baird .l-nitPd Press Staff Correspondent) Washington. May <-(UP)- ComL llfatiO ns in the European marKet for mari.an moving pictures has been rought about during the last year by Suction of the "talkies- and inXsingly restrictive measures passed v foreign governments to protect h eir own cinema industries, the ( orn- ' r( . t . department has been advised " its representatives on the contin"Europe, though it has laughed at the antics of American comedians and smiled and wept its way through long Matures is completely stumped when hese celluloid heroes become vocal. Not' onlv does Europe lack theatres wired for sound reproduction, but the audiences, except in England, are unahle to understand the language in which the dramas are prduced. American prdoucers, it is understood will confine two-thirds of their 1929 production to sound films. These, generally speaking, can be used only as silent reels in Europe. As such, they will appear "slowed up" in comparison with foreign films, it was stated Foreign Studios This situation has resulted in an unprecedented activity among the foreign studios during the past year. Their studios turned out more than 500 featre films costing $24,000,000 which is a record both for the number of pictures completed and for total production costs. At present, the Commerce ( Department stated. Germany, France, and Great Britain ate the foremost producing countries in Europe, accounting for fully 80 per cent- of all European films, it was said. Last year German studios made 221 feature films, while France and Great Britian each produced about half that number. Protective laws designed to limit the yearly quota of foreign films have been passed both by England and France. In both of these countries imports of American films in 1928 declined as compared with 1927. Only in Germany, of the three, did imports of America's celluloid drama increase. Pictures from the United States accounted for 40 per cent of the feature films shown in Germany during 1928, 54 per cent of those shown in France gnd 71 per cent of those shown in Great Britain. o DECATUR H. S. NOTES —by— ROBERT HELLER Thursday morning, Rev. Miller of Lawrence, Pennsylvania, spoke on the "Art of Being Happy." He said in part, “I am convinced that, being happy, buoyant, and triumphant constitutes one of the duties of man. No one ever told me when I was a boy that I should be happy. There is a Pagan philosophy in life still prevail ent that if one is happy something is wrnk—that life is lacking in piety. I am confident that God's scheme of things is to be happy, and that if we are not happy we are failures. Happiness is the symphony of life, and three ways to achieve happiness are: to be honest with ourselves and others; to believe that we are from the Co<Ls; to be masters of our work." Mr. Worth man explained the new state laws in regards to education, Friday morning. In the future to get an acedemic diploma two majors of three years in each subject and t,wo minors consisting of two years in each subject will be required. Among the electives one year of health is a new regulation. Mr. Worthman also said that colleges were making it a policy not to admit any one who had an average less than 85% providing no school was missed through sickness or necessity to work. He also urged that any one wishing to go to a certain college sould send for their catalogue several years in advance as each school has requirements peculiar to itself. At a senior class meeting held during the first of the week, committees *ere chosen to prepare for the senior teceptiori. Plans were also announced by Miss McCrory, 'fclass guardian, or the baccalaureate service. The ‘lass will meet at. the home jjf Dr. and Mrs. Roy Archbold and from jnere will march in a body to the ethodist church where the sermon "'ill be preached. The hoys and girls glee clubs will Slve a benefit show next Thursday and Friday to raise money for the Kme club party which will be held on ednesday of commencement week, e show is "Moran of the Marines” eaturing Richard Dix and it will be ven a *- the Adams theater. Tickets mj be secured from any member of K ' e<? club, and the party will den“ upon the success of the show. , i un 't>rs have completed plans h r le Junior-senior reception. It will . lnan f ed from tile Proceeds of the !Or play, “White Elephant."

Aids Robbers Unwillingly V:? W 11 ■.□ MR. Mfe ."FWIKI aX.it • w •r 1 Ab..*,. ■ t j■Tv y i , — k -7 W . IF \ W ™BL • - B X el i ** .4 W" kJ | %•*——test®' .—. Dolores Bannon (top), who was taken by bandits in Chicago along with a new car belonging to Clayton (’. Sherman (bottom, left) and forced to accompany them on a round of holdups. Martha Hanson (bottom, right) was one of the victims.

Chicago, May 4. —Two bandits seized a new car, with a girl in it, Wednesday night, a few blocks from the home of Mayor William H. Thompson in Chicago, and proceeded on a night of hpldups. Dolores Bannison, 22, of Evanston, was the victim of the kidnaping. She had lieen riding with Clayton C. Sherman, president of the H. P. Smith Paper Company, when his hat blew off. He stopped his car and got out to chase the hat. When he did so the bandiLs stepped in on each side. Miss Bannison, with a gun pressed into her ribs, was told to keep quiet. At the same time the abductors in-

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By Joseph H. Baird (United Press Aviation Editor) Washington — (UP) Is Colonel Lindbergh, American idol pai-excel-lence, doomed to follow the via dolor osa of Admiral Dewey and other heroes? Will the monotonous adulation he has received for two years finally turn his head, cool so long, and betray him into actions which will convert popular worsnip to disdain’’ These are questions which Washington aviation circles and newspapers have been debating as the result of that famous mud-splashing episode here. Washington News printed a first page editrial under the caption, ‘Colonel Lindbergh splashes mud on himself.” Lindbergh's brothers of the air have no fault to find with his conduct They believe he has been hounded ceaselessly by a public intent on seeing the colonel for the same reason it would go to an exhibition. As with most questions, there are two sides to the matter.*One would expect Lindbergh to be grateful for the eminence in which popular worship has placed him. But too much sweet adulation soon becomes cloying to the taste of a modest hero. At all events, it would be strange should America's fixation on its aviation idol continue indefinitely. All of England is proud of its new air way from London to India, one of the longest in the world, the Commerce Department's attache there has reported. There are three distinct stages m the long joruney from Picadilly Square to the land of the Shalimar, Taj Mahal and Ganges Eacli is made in a different type of plane. From Loudon to Basle, on travels in a large land plane. From Basle to Genoa one goes in a sleeping car. Next morning, aboard a seaplane, the journey to Alexandria begins. There passengers are taken by car to Aboukir airport and the journey to

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• formed her that the gun had been - stolen from an Evanston policeman. 1 This fact was later verified. 1 They drove around and came upon a parked car. They held up a couple in the car, taking $4 from them. Lat- , er they stopped two women on the ■ stieet, but the intended victims fled . with screams. i Finally the bandit pair drove to the r North Side of the city and allowed t Miss Bannison to take the car and >'go home. She said they held her so the police would not stop them. I ' The victim in the one holdup . i which was successful was Miss -1 Martha Hanson.

Karachi is completed by tri-motored “Bristol" planes. Plans for the establishment of air passenger, mail and freight service between Cape Town and Johannesburg, Africa, were completed recently, the Commerce Department has been informed by its representative at the latter place. A new record for speed on the transcontinental air mail route is reported to have been made by a plane of the Boeing System recently. According to the pilots log, the journey from San Francisco to Lake Michigan was made in 12 hours and 43 minutes actual flying timg. Airplanes provided a link between the isolated islands of Denmark when all other methods of transportation failed during February when unusually cold weather locked the Kingdom in a vice of snow and ice, the American vice counsel in Copenhagen has reported. Every available plane in the country —those qf the army, navy and flying companies—was pressed into service. Emergency calls for additional planes brought Dutch, German and Swedish ships to Denmark, which were utilized mainly in maintaining communications with Germany and Sweden. Ice bound vessels, islands and forts were kept supplied with food and medicine. During this entire period of emergency winter flying, when probably 50 or 60 ait planes were in use under all kinds of difficult conditions, there was not a single accident, it is reported.

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GENEVA WOMAN EXPIRES TODAY Mrs. John Whiteman Dies At Her Home In Geneva This Morning Geneva. Ind., May 4.— (Special)— Mrs. Elenora Williams Whiteman, (16, wife of John Whiteman, died at 9:30 o'clock this morning, at her home here. Death was caused by cancer of the stomach. Mrs. Whiteman submitted to an operation last January and since that, time her condition has been serious. Mrs. Whiteman was born December 25, 1862 near Weschester, Indi-

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I ,s__ I City Clean-Up Week g TUESDAY MONDAY Jg I May 7to May 13 I Get ready for the annual dean-up. City trucks will start out next Tuesday to gather up the tin cans, rubbish, etc., but will not haul away Wh. the winter’s supply of ashes and we ask all citizens to cooperate. Cans an-! other rubbish should be placed in containers, boxes, baskets 'wy or barrels. This rubbish will be hauled away free if placed in said containers in the alley or in front of your house so it can be picked up by z if you wish container back, tell driver or paste notice on it. ' j MhP’ Only one trip will be made through your district. If truck misses your place, call phone 839 at noon or after 6 o’clock p. m. j® Help us do a good job m an d make Decatur Look ® I SPIC and SPAN I I City Street Department | AMOS FISHER, Street Commissioner. O CLEAN-UP PAINT-UP SPRUCE-UP JO J® ■

anti. For the past twenty years, together with her husband, she litis been a resident of Geneva. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church here. Surviving besides the husband lire three children: Hershull W. of Elkhart; Kenneth, of Elkhart, and Mrs. Harry Steed, of Geneva. One daughter Is deceased. Funeral services will be held at two o’clock Tuesday afternoon at. the M. E. church here, the Rev. Lutey, former pastor of the church officiating, assisted by Rev. Barton. Burial will be made in the Riverside cemetery. — -.. ——o — American Legion Notice Adams Post No. 43, of thr* American Legion, will hold a regular meeting in Legion hall, Monday evening, May 6. at 7:30 o’clock. 107-2tx Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

Won’t Pay Rent For Ghost Home Galway, Ireland, May 4 —(UP) B<cause bls cottage wus haunted by shecogues and fiirles" n cottager In the Arran Islands has refused to pay his lent. This at least is the story told by Patrick Flaherty, rent collector for the Allan Islands, when haul ed before the Galway Health Board to explain mysterious movings ami un-

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paid rent Items on the part of the Islanders. 1 "It stiikes me," said the secretary of the board, "that fairies make an easy < xcuse for moving about from one ■ cottage to another. I was under the Im- , pression that the days of sheeoguea . and fairies had passed forever, but I guess I overlooked the Arran Islands.” Edwards Collegians — colored ,'bond from Cincinnati at Sunset Sunday. 10f>-2t