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Show I THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH , ! Anniversary of Sound Movies Recalls Early Panic of Stars .,,,. ' l LmKaiB9Hs!Si gjfl B fintjsr4tgH HBfs iVBBI Wm " : 'HBPiisinl EARLY IN CAREER . . . Douglas Fairbanks, acclaimed by millions as Idol of the screen, Is shown with his first camera staff while mak-ing one of his early pictures. Actress Bessie Love played opposite the star in above picture, title unknown. Public, Press Unenthused at Talkie' Advent Sound came to motion pictures just 20 years ago yet most of the excitement over the invention that today makes movies one of Amer-ica's chief industries didn't come from the press or public, but from stars who were panicked by the realization that their voices might not be pitched for recording. Despite an unenthusiastic public, and skeptical producers of the first talkies, "The Jazz Singer" starring May McAvoy and Al Jolson, was released in 1927. From then on a star's voice was recordable or he was through. John Barrymore and Conrad Nagel made the transition from silence to sound without a hitch. Nagel, who was under contract to MGM at the time and receiving $2,500, was loaned to every other company in Hollywood and in the first two years of talkies, he made 31 films. Westerns Take Lead. Recording sound for Westerns at first seemed impossible but Fox now total more box office receipts than any other type of picture. Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo both thought someone was playing a Joke on them made "In Old Arizona" with War-ner Baxter as the star and such film greats as William Boyd, now Hopalong Cassidy, and the late Bill Hart rose to their fame. Westerns by substituting men's voices when they first heard record-ings of their own voices. Wal-lace Beery made a talkie for Paramount his first promptly was fired and went to MGM. He's been there ever since. Zazu Pitts of silent days was con-sidered a great dramatic actress. Her voice on the sound track ruined it all and she wisely switched to comedy and made her fortune as a funny girl. Charlie Chaplin, silent and sound comedian of the early days, even now is planning a comeback after six years' of absence. Started In 1927. Picture and sound recorded and synchronized on the same piece of film caused little excitement when it first was shown to the public in Schenectady, N. Y., in 1927. So the late Charles A. Hoxie of Schen-ectady, who developed it in the laboratories of General Electric, carted his Kinemagraphone, as he called it, back to the plant. It wasn't until a year or so later that the president of the company took it with him to Europe to intro-duce an educational film. There it was received with such enthusiasm that company officials believed the talking movie was perhaps best suited to educational purposes. Be-fore more educational movies had been produced, however, the mnvip hhh9Hbhhhb '"'j liiii Hl KAHfJWI fl ESflP '.'JMflSHK BIbT SSH WSSSSfgL .sssBsssMmsW NSf!pSmi 3fiii9l HjV KIi I HH9H fif3i HISTORICAL STARS . . . Among the most famous stars in early days of silent films were Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, shown here in a scene from "The Kid." industry put into general use the Hoxie machine. Today it is used by practically every movie com-pany in the country. Truman Purge Aimed at Restoring Party Machinery By BAUKHAGE Veld Analyst and Commpntiitnr. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street.N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C Before the Paris Peace conference even got underway we learned that the rules committee, which heard so much heated or- - the development of the breech-loadin- g firearm, and the perfection of rifling the making of spiralled grooves Inside the barrel which gave the bullet or projectile a twisting movement, and kept it from tumbling "head over heels." This increased range and accu-racy. The emphasis was still on the rifleman rather than the artillery, and such statistics as we have indicate that the infantry in the Franco - Prussian war of 1870 wounded 10 times as many men as the artillery did. Undoubtedly the bayonet claimed many. By 1914-1- however, artillery produced one-ha- lf the wounded, showing the rapid advance which, in part, made experts forget the atory, was as powerful as the powerful rules committee of the house of repre-sentatives. It wasn't until after the pri-mary returns were in, and Representative (Truman - hater) Slaughter of Mi-ssouri, a mem-ber of the rules Artillery, according to the old def-inition, is "group-serve- mounted firearms of caliber greater than that of small arms." This definition could easily be made to include the firearms, shells, or bombs car-ried by planes, or contained in the war-hea- d of a rocket. committee, was defeated, that most laymen real-ized the importance of that battle, and why the President stuck his neck out as far as he did in help-ing to beat him. I can see the President now as he looked up with that pert, bird-like Klance he has iust enough of smile to make you try to listen sympathetically and say that if Slaughter was right, he (the Presi-dent) was wrong. Think what Slaughter could have laid if he had been elected! But he was defeated and the day after the primary, the real sig-nificance of the battle became clear. Never In American history has my administration been up against the situation which developed when Ihe Roosevelt honeymoon ended. I m not arguing how or why that lituation came about. But the fact Is we have had a situation where party lines meant little, and the ige-ol- d principle of majority rule, the theory on which congress, as a working body, is organized, has Been violated. Outstanding example was the rules committee. There were five loutherners Democrats on that committee, and vith Slaughter's help, they could tie up the vote and tie up any legis-lation Truman asked for. Now maybe the fact that the ad-ministration couldn't get its legis-lation before congress, or couldn't fet it passed when it did, was a ood thing. I am not discussing that. I merely say that what hap-pened is not a Eood tiling for the "artillery" in the latter sense, not to belittle the doughboy who Is really the "ultimo ratio," but be-cause the projectile, either carried in a plane or by propulsion In rocket, is what might be called the definitive weapon. The point is we did not develop the rocket in the Civil war because we felt we had something better (breech-loadin- g rifled artillery and small arms). And again the rocket was set aside by a decision arrived at before we engaged actively in World War II when our experts, both in the army and out of it, including the great indus-trialists who could gauge our pro-duction capacity, felt the airplane was a superior weapon. We did not entirely neglect study anu experimentation on the rock-et during the war, however, and now v,e are probably farther ad-vanced in this type of "artillery" than any other nation. We also have learned to project our "artil-lery" by means of the "drone" ipilotlcss airplane). On August 7, the doi.es droned their way from Honolulu to California. One of them dropped a bomb. The rest landed successfully. A plane with no pilot can bomb a nation that far distant without risking human life. . . Is This the Army, Mr. Jones? In World War I when YMCA two-part- y system. And as the situ-itio- n grew more acute, congress sasn't a working body. Let's take the testimony of a Ihoroughly loyal Republican mem-e-r of the committee and acting minority leader, Representative Hichener of Michigan. If the Dem-ocrats retain control of the house, Wichener said, the absence of Slaughter will permit he rules committee to function the vay it was intended to function; lamely, the legislation of the jarty in power will be sent to the loor. That didn't mean Michencr want-f-d the rival party's legislation passed. It simply meant he knew iiat Slaughter, teaming up with lie Democrats nd the Republicans, was able to ae the vote and stymie action. And that isn't two-part- y govern-ren- t. and Red Cross canteens were established right up into the zone of the advance, and even nearer the front, some of the "old timers" of those days wrote to the editors insisting that the Civil war was won on "salt horse and likker" (I recall that phrase in one of the letters) and we were just softening the boys. Well, it didn't soften them too soft for Chateau Thierry and the Argonne. Then came World War II, and some of the veterans of the earlier war raised their eyebrows at the USO, turkey dinners at the front on Thanksgiving, ice cream (in-stead of beans, salmon, corn willy or nothing i But, soldier, you ain't heard nut tin! When they say "This is the armv. Mr. Jones," to you future O.Li, you'll hardly believe it. Did you hear what Field Marshal (blood, sand, and green for the Normandy hedges) Montgomery had to say? He believes enlisted men in the British army ought to live like other folks. Bedrooms, not barracks. "You had your breakfast in bed Air-Pow- er Big Killer in War This has been an aviation year. The first peacetime year that America has been acknowledged is mistress of the air as well as of the sea and the land. It has jeen a time of reminiscence, of ecapitulation, as well as forecast ind foreshadowing. I remember the interview I had vith a certain army official dur-n-the war. His impatience, imashing the ordinary rules of had revealed the secret )f the bazooka kept "confidential" ong after it was in use, and the letails of which Germans had long lince learned to their sorrow. (The sazooka functions on the rocket principle.) The officer pointed to an old print on his wall. It was a picture )f American soldiers discharging l rocket projectile in the War of 1812. Why, then, if the rocket princi-ple was known to us in those early lays, did we not develop it as the Germans did, I asked. The reason the rocket was neglected in the Civil war period, I was told, was because ordnance experts were concentrating on . o - "but naming puijg, you won't have it there any more." Maybe not. But if Monty has his way, British soldiers can read in bed. And what about those tricky uni-forms American soldiers are going to wear? Blue! like the boys in blue who said good-by- e to Blue Belli. And perhaps two-note- with a light- er shade for the trousers! And overcoats AND CAPES! You aren't in the army now, Mr. Jones. You're in grand opera! And then there is that terminal leave pay bill passed by congress, I suppose, to pacify the fellows who got out of the army without knowing what they were going to miss. Almost three billion dollars dumped into G.I. pockets to even them up with what the officers re-ceived for furloughs they hadn't taken. CLASSlF and Osed i."H IbH ?jggg fcwWTEIItt'J Ofllc. runufur?Sij tog Marhmos, Safes JSflI O'SULUmk Get O'Sullivan SOUS v Heels next tint ytu hcM shoes repaired. I EASY DOES IT I UP HILL ij or down: BIG PROFITS POPCORN MM All Stainless Stetl IMMEDIATE DELHI From San FrtociM Viking De Ufl 5 Year Guonmf HYBRID POPC0I! POPCORN SEASM CompfateSvppJi ARTHUR UNCUS 105 Coldtn Gate Ate. Sf in iapridiI rSORETONB "rt $1.00 I"" H Detank rfdrisB sudden changrtuiyg HisALtLfL!sii WNU--W M A YOU fj much during ""TOW you're pale, "',-- , of Bo try Lydis E. 5225H -o- ne of JSSsW build up red gtm Plnkham-- s Table" ww best blood-iro- n Editor's Note: While Wln-che-ll Is on vacation, Jack Lait Is acting as guest columnist. Unshackled in a Garden of Eden Best American Divorce, and fastest, Is the decree issued by Federal Judge Moore in St. Thom-as, Virgin Islands, U. S. A. . . . It takes eight hours to get to St. Thomas from New York via plane, flying the new nonstop route. . . . By a new regulation, after six weeks' residence, the decree is signed, eliminating long periods of publication and other delays perti-nent to Reno or Miami divorces. . . . The Virgin islands are a prac-tically unknown paradise few tourists, best Scotch on earth at $2.50 a fifth, cigarets 50 cents a carton, shopping for native woven products at prewar prices and your buck worth 100 cents. . . . Two American hotels Hotel 829 and the government - run Bluebeard's Castle total accommodations 60 people! . . . The Virgin islands divorce decree is the only one in the country signed by a federal judge, who is appointed by the President. ... No V. I. divorce has yet been contested by any state. Lawyers feel that the federal char-acter of the decree puts it above protest. ... In this tropical Capri, the American finds new world comforts along with authentic old world atmosphere like the South Sea islands once had. . . . Natives live in tiny huts, the beaches are blue and coral, the water crystal clear, with vast acres wild, awaiting settlement. . . . The government local and national is eager to sell at ridiculously low fig-ures. ... At Caneel bay, on St. John (one of the U. S. Virgin group), the most breath-takin- g beach on earth rests its spreading white arms in cool tropical splen-dor with an average of three bathers a day! Cabanas, furnished by the U. S., are usually empty. Atlantic City shut up tighter than ever. . . . The cops just sent the sad word around, and the wheels stopped rolling. . . . Jack Lynch, who lost his historic club on Philly's Walton hotel roof when j sudden fire regulations closed it, is hunting a new street-floo- r spot there; meanwhile, he wants to take over the now dark Rainbow room, in Radio City but the Rockefel-lers don't seem to need the money. When George White, whose "Scandals" rivaled Ziegfeld's "Follies," ran into trouble in San Diego, the sup-posedly hard - hearted Broad- - way boys called a meeting and chipped in for a defense fund. . . . Buddy de Sylva was the leader. ... The kitty went to $50,000! Faye (Mrs. Roosevelt) Emerson returns to the stage at Cape Cod, Mass., August 12, in "Here Today." a warmed-ove- r Ruth Gordon star-rer of 1934. . . . ifs official-Jo- an Crawford's next is "Possessed" with Van Heflin, based on a Cos-mopolitan magazine novelette, "One Man's Secret," by Rita Weiman. . Civil aeronautics bureau may not know this: When it approved an around - the - world route for TWA linked with Northwest Air-Lin- Howard Hughes, who owns TWA, had an option on control of North-west. ... TWA is to fly N Y to Shanghai, via Europe; North-we- st is to pick up there, flving to Alaska and Seattle. . . Hughes-optio-was to become effective if as and when lM,,riv,,.. l ' ment permission...tmo cji kui govern- fly the Pacific. . So it appears Hughes, who broke the around-the-worl- d air rec- ord has in hand the around-the-worl-route he laid out on that famous four-da- y zoom. with . And announcement of the globe-c.rchn- g license, plus the approval of he ConS,ellat,,ns with changes, TV A stck leaped so ; ho' ldings have been rising at a rate about $1,000,000 a he J-- and listens to his r!b. kn Jack Dempsey and Jake Amron 'Hollywood restaurant boss.' Lustra r " SSy 0fTer fr HenrV "use Harry Oshrin doesn't d v0$35oPayday ,John Ba'ton wS a2a starring as jeet- - " t0Ur next which son, w at th e7S ""I 3 rUgh ide of hillbilly performers i cue, nigMgab,tVrNeWYrk PeneiS,? "ave Pegged steep tor's 'nT' rn with - CUEVSII t0 lay H hot dog. ' buy a I OLD WESTERN STYLE Farmers Pack Guns to Curb Rustlers MADISON. WIS. Defying mod- - ern methods of criminal detection, Wood county farmers have band-ed together in the old-tim- e vigi-lante system to curb a recent out-break of cattle rustling here. An SOS over a rural party tele-phone line prompted the first con-certed manhunt, when 50 farmers, packing guns in old vigilante style, set out on a quest for rustler's. They beat a wooded sector from mid-night until dawn but the rustlers had disappeared. Bernard Kroening, who lives in nearby Rock, saw a car slip up to a woods on his farm, two occu-pants emerging and entering the woods. He fired three shots, chas-ing the men deeper into the woods. Meanwhile, his wife got busy on the party line to round up the gang of 50 farmers. Before their arrival, however, the mysterious car raced off down the road. Kroening gave chase in his car but lost the quarry. Kroen-ing told the vigilantes he believed the two strangers still were in the woods and that the car had been driven by a third party, who had remained in it. Although hampered by fog, the farmers beat through bushes and thickets for hours without finding the rustlers. Two Marshfield traf-fic officers and several deputies helped them. An electric wire which charged a fence on the Kroening farm had been turned off by the thieves, and the farmers theorized that the men had made careful prepara-tions for herding the animals through the fence when a truck arrived later. In a previous rustling incident mysterious strangers fired on a farmer who came upon them un-expectedly on his farm near Wis-Town Opens Secession Move consin Rapids. WENDOVER, UTAH-NEVAD-Reminiscent of the Civil war con-troversy is the move sponsored by 2,000 residents of the Utah part of this little Bonneville salt flats town of 2.500 to secede from Utah so they can join their other 500 towns-folk as residents of Nevada, where a man can do anything he wants well, almost anything. "Utah doesn't even seem to know we're in the state and apparently doesn't even care if we're in the Union," bewailed Lester Giffen, spokesman for the secessionists. Main complaint against Utah is the fact that the Beehive state's laws are too strict. "A tourist, coming from the East, stops in my place and looks for the slot machines." explained a cafe owner on the Utah side. "I have to tell him we can't have them, so he says 'to heck with I you' and drives across the border to Nevada." While this same innkeeper can sell only 3.2 beer, his fellow bar-keepers across the state line have some of the best-stocke- d bars in the West. "In Nevada, if a man wants a drink, he orders one or two. then he's happy and satisfied." Giffen said. "In Utah, he has to get a permit, go to the state-owne- d store and buy a quart. Then he feels he has to drink the whole quart. So he doesn't show up for work the next day." Petitions will be presented to the Utah legislature and. if ap-proved there, must be accepted by the Nevada legislature. Then con-gress will be asked to alter the Utah-Nevad- a boundary to include all of Westover in Nevada. Texas High School Boy Presents Own Program on Radio MESQU1TE. TEXAS. - Although only 17 years old. Dale Berry Mts-quit-high school senior, has been booked on a sustaining program over radio station WRR with his own cowboy band. Berry, who secured his own sponsor for the prorim formerly played with Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers and was on 'the Grand Ole Opry program over a Nashville station. Berry plays the guitar and other members of the band are Robert Jenkins. Cleo Landolt. Benny Will banks and Matt McGlothern Instruction in piano and a feu, guitar lessons represent Berrv'-onl-musical training. He is a ,on of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Btr-- v Mesquite. House --Hunters Covet Mansion Built to Appease GlWic SAN JOSE, CALIF. Covetous glances from myriad house-hunter- s during the current housing short-age are being attracted by a man-sion here which originally was built to appease ghosts. Started 37 years before her death by Mrs. Sarah Winchester, wife of the inventor of the Winchester rifle of Civil war fame, the sprawling "crazy quilt" structure soon be-came an architectural horror. Constant construction and reno vation forced many of the hun-dreds of windows in the house to open on solid walls. Some of the doors on upper floors open direct-ly on the outside with no stair-ways provided. though more than 40 stairways, each with 13 steps, are scatttered through the interior. Many of them, like the windows and doors, have no util-ity value except for ghosts lurking in the maze of secret passages, hidden panels and trap doors Following the death of her hi., band, Mrs. Winchester came conscience-stricke- n role the Ipth,. of , rifle in Zr d and built additions to the bouVe peac to pacify and entertain the of gun victims." She mnf u bui.dmg additions each providing a new monsJo," J Ever, night for 37 years, ants prepared and served lav sh banquet spreads as Mr, ter chatted with he ll"- " BARBS ... fry Baukhage ' Roy G. Ownes, said to be an en-gineer economist, offers me (and you) this suggestion: Only by sup-plying the mouse with cheese to the point of can the mouse be taught to abstain from stealing. He says man is much advanced beyond this point. Remember that onto each race-track a little rain must fall. J It seems to me White Russia and Ukraine have as much right to a separate vote in the UN "as do California and Maine, not to mention the District of Columbia, ' which ought to have a vote some- - where. Automobiles soon will be sold through army post exchanges Neither jeep nor cheap |