Dinesh Jois http://hindi-movies-songs.com/sirc/TRN-20111-O.pdfPg 50-> The printed logs are in Tamil, Sinhalese, English and Telugu, not Kannada. If I am reading it correctly, it says, "Jermaivil cheyabaTTinadi".

Balaji Murthy Dinesh, yes, Telugu, not Kannada, I had noticed it too. The words appear to me as " " - germanilo chEyabaDinadi. Tamil words, I believe are " " - germaniyil chEyapaTTadu.

Sreenivas Paruchuri Dinesh Jois good catch! early Odeon records also prominently stressed their "made in Germany" status on discs and in print advertisements of early 1930s. Apropos reading disc lables I have great fun deciphering the song titles, esp. Carnatic classical compositions . BTW, this Made in Germany had originally very negative connotation, introduced by Brits in 1880s to fight cheap, imitation products from Germany. But I am digressing ...