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Evening star., 1939-11-16
Mems Undershorts and
undershirts, 49,
E for %lIO

800 poirs weII-toiIored, fuIIycut undershorts in
attractive cotton striped prints Snap fasteners
or button yoke fronts. Sizes 80 to AZ.
500 undershirts Of sturdy conbed cotton The
popular ribbed sNIe-nen Iike-swss or panel.
Sizes "a to A.
Stock up at this pre-hodoy savings.
Down STAIRS STORE.
Evening star., 1939-11-16
Boys Corduroy Jackets, 81

Would regularly be $3.95
10 in Juniors and youths sizes. RoeIon sleeve
style with zip" front and zip" top pocket
Warm royon Iinirr knitted cuffs. In brown,
groy and green. S les to l8.
Down STAIRS SroRE.
Evening star., 1939-11-16
Women's Shoes
$3.50 We're IS

IS pairs suede shoes, medium
and high heels in dressy
styles. Black, brown and
wine. Not all sizes.
ia pairs Bellaire Shoes in OK
fords and step-ins, walking heels.
Black, brown. Broken sizes. Were
IS. Now ---$2.50
Down STAIRS STORE.
Evening star., 1939-11-16
Gloves, ~
Misses and Women's
Dresses, $50

We're SIO95 and $I395
SO in rayon crepes. Black and colors. All from ou
regular Fall stock Not all sizes in all styles.
IS Misses and Womens Dresses in crepes Color
and blacks. Originally $7s5 and $l095. Now-------$
Down STAINS STORE, DRESSES
Evening star., 1939-11-16
Turbans, So

OITXJUNFED VI ana 1I.TC
35 in wool felt and rayon
crepe. Assorted colors and
headsizeS.
rs Wool Felt Brimmed Hats in
assorted colors and headsizes.
Originally 81 and shes. Now, Soc
rs Fur Felt Hats, assorted styles,
colors and headsizes. Originally
$2.95 and $3.95. Now
Down STAIRS STORE.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Dividends Announced
tReported by Smith, Barney g. Coz

NEW YORK. Oct 4-Dvidends de-
A elared. Prepared by Fitch publishing Co.:
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Commonwealth Southern
Plans Macon Plant
BY the Associated Press.

ATLANTA. Oct. 4.-The Georgia
Power Co. will start immediate con-
struction of $4,000 900 steam -elec-
trio generating plant at Macon
the largest single construction activ-
ity it has undertaken in 10 years.
President Preston S. Arkwright an
nounced yesterday.
The construction will provide a
labor pay roll of approximately ST.
100000. Mr.. cartwright said, spread
over the ensuing 18 to % months.
Completion is expected by June,
1941.
Our decision to go ahead and
build now was. Influenced by the
change in relationships between the
Tennessee Valley Authority and
private utility companies in the
Southeast" the power executive
said
The new steam-operated plant at
Macon will have an initial installa-
ton consisting of a 35 ,O0O- -kilowatt
turbo generator and the building
will be capable of accommodating
two additional units of the same
capacity.
The new plant is part of a S22,-
100000 expansion program of Com
monwealth & Southern, increasing
its generating capacity by 10000
kilowatts, and including plants at
Bay City, Mich, and additions at
Peoria, Ill; Toronto, Ohio, together
with transmission line improvements
at various places.
The Macon construction and a
new plant at Mobile, Ala, recently
announced, were said to be the first
major utility developments in the
South since the beginning of Ten
nessee Valley Authority electric op-
erations.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Oct. 4 GP,.-Hos prices turned
upward toaay for the first time tins week,
gaining 10 to 25 cents and topping at
babe Tas sbssn prces generally were strong
standstill, with bids about % cents lower
and sellers holding lor steady prices.
Salable hog receipts were but 1000 head.
1000 less than expected, and packers re-
ceiyed only l,5O0 in direct shipments.
Reduced receipts also was a stimulating
factor in the cattle market. where arrivals
totaied only $500, in the open market,
steers and all grades, of yearlinss were
strong TO % cents higher. Strictly prime
d:s, 1;239-pound pound builocks topped at Sl1.40
Other killing classes were steady to strong
Stock SsOfse1s rs and feeders were weak and rs
lUnited States Department of Agricul-
Tuesdays average; top. 7.l5; bulk, sood
o0Iss Bounds oS s5o-$seopoand
sSSsS @ss esod
salahle cattle, 1900; salable calves,
1000: choice to prime steers and, all grades
mand broader; reduced receipts stimulating
steers; slow and steady: such kinds selling selling
pound bullocks, lao; 11.5O bid on prime
p9und steers oo 2G ,,s;v several loads turning
latter price scaling 1.437 pounds Light
mixed yearlingS. UP to IL .00 heifers, UP to
1920: all grades heifers very scarce; other
killing classes steady to strong; cutter cows.
400 90: weighty sausage bulls to TAO;
selected vealers. to 11.50; stockers and
Salable sheep. 1000; total, $500; late
Tuesday: Fat lambs, 1915 lower: sheep
and yearlings around steady; best natives
and range lambs 9.65; bulk rangers,
sorted. .9.5O-75: todays trading at stand
still: bidding around 25 lower On prac-
tically all classes; holding mostly steady.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
New Utility and Rail
Equipment Orders
Speed Industries
Turbine Generators
Booked; Repair PIons
Of Illinois Central
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. New orders
for utility and railroad equipment
kept the industrial pot boiling today.
General Electric Co. has $4,000
kilowatt turbine generator on its
books for Public Service Electric Co.
for use in Jersey City. Foster
Wheeler Corp. has received a con-
tract to provide fuel pulverizers,
heaters and evaporators for this
project.
New construction planned by Com
monwealth & Southern Corp. sub
sidiaries has resulted in a Sl,50O,O 900
order for Westinghouse Electric g.
Manufacturing Co. for two 35.OOO-
kilowatt turbo-generators. Turbines
will be built at South philadelphia
and the generators at East Pitts
burgh.
Reports current in the carrier field
indicated Great Northern is plan
ming to build about 5000 cars in its
own shops over a period of more
than year.
ILLINOIS Central is believed to have
car-repair pla on its program
costing about s4,00OOO0 and involv-
ing more than 10000 cars. The same
road will repair about so locomotives
at a rough cost of $1,000 900.
Another report in rail circles said
New oYrk Central might enlarge it's
present car-building program by
purchasing about 1000 cars from
private builders.
In Chicago Federal court au.
thorized the trustee of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railway to
spend s3,775,000 gor new equipment
and repair work. New rolling stock
will consist of 1000 all-steel, semi
lightweight box cars costing s2,.
100000, 10 Diesel-electric switch en-.
gines of 60O-horsepower costing
S625 900 and 10 Diesel-electric
sWitchers of 360-horsepower.
Rock Island would issue $4,000
OF equipment trust certificates to
defray part of the cost.
Evening star., 1939-10-04

With the recent completion of
a line to Mosul, Iraq is now con-
nected by railway with Turkey and
Syria.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-Early losses OF
9. cent bushel in wheat were wiped
oat late today as the market turned
upward and scored net gains rang
ing to IA cent.
Renewed strength at Winnipeg,
wnere prices gained more than a
cent after Sagging fractionally, and
continued reports Of drought in the
domestic grain belts aided the up
turn here The Canadian market
was aided by export sales estimated
at 100000 bushels. Export inquiries
for American corn also were re-
ported.
Wheat closed 81 cent higher, De-
cember 81as-5s, May 81& -5s; corn
1s-ss up, December 4914-as, May
52l4 oats l45s higher.
Although the trade in United
States Governments was light, the
price trend in this type of securi-
ties was upward, with the average
2 advance about 5-32 point.
BY far the greatest interest was
shown in the utilities. which recently
had been more or less neglected. AS
a result, many of these issues gained
more than a point.
Advancing prices were recorded
for Commonwealth Edison 31as,
Consolidated Edison 312s, Montana
Power 334s, Bethlehem Steel 312s,
American Telephone 3i4s of 66, Ar
, mour of Delaware 4s of SIS, Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube As, United States
Steel 34s, Portland General Electric
412s and Penn Dixie Cement IS.
Although American rails slipped,
advances of l to points were regis
tered for Canadian Pacific and
Canadian National Railways issues.
Canadian government dollar loans
also topped the foreign list, with
gains of around points. Latin
American, Norwegian and Italian
obligations were among the few
other advancing foreign issues.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Portugal Orders
28 Rail Coaches
From II. S. Firm
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct. 4-The Wall
Street Journal said today it under
stood $500 900 order by Portugal
for American railroad coaches had
been placed with the Edward G..
Budd Manufacturing Co.
1t was understood the company
would fill the order with % stainless
steel coaches to be constructed in
its Philadelphia plant, shipped in
sections to Portugal, and there
assembled by Budd engineers.
The equipment order was made
under a $5,0O0,000 credit set up in
the Export-Import Bank in WASH
ington to develop United States
trade with Portugal. An Associated
Press dispatch from Lisbon Monday
indicated Portugal hoped to expand
her shipments of such products as
cork, olive oil and port wine to the
United States as a result.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Copper Producer Raises
Price Half a Cent
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. "A leading
producer of copper today raised the
selling price Y cent a pound to 1919
cents, delivered Connecticut Valley.
Other producers and sellers were
understood to be giving considera-
ton to following the advance but
took no immediate action following
the posting of the higher quotation.
The new 121a cent level duplicated
an action taken on September S
when the price was hoisted from IL
to 1912 cents by one interest but not
concurred in by others. Subse-
quently the advance was Cancelled
and in recent weeks all interests
have been selling on a uniform 12-
cent scale.
Todays boost had been forecast in
metal circles for a week due to the
persistent strength of the out
side and scrap metal markets.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Erie Railroad Opposes
Reorganization Plan
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, Oct. 4.-Erie Rail-
road Co., in its exceptions to an
Interstate Commerce Commission
examiners report on how the line
should be reorganized, argued yes
terday that the examiner proposed
too low a capitalization for the
new company.
The Chesapeake g. Ohio Railway,
parent of Erie when the latter went
into reorganization, made the same
argument in its exception. Any in
crease of capitalization over the
examiners proposed s342 ,465 ,009
would likewise increase C. g. O.'s
common stock holdings in Erie. The
examiner would give C. & o. nearly
10 per cent control, against its better
than so per cent interest before the
road went into reorganization.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Loft, Inc., Meeting Dated

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 R.-Loft,
Inc, stockholders were notified to-
day of special meeting to be held
October "a in Wilmington, Del. to
act on a plan of readjustment which
would segregate the Loft candy busi-
ness from its 1857 per cent holdings
in the Pepsi-Cola Co. and create the
Loft Candy Corp.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Debentures Offered

NEW YORK, Oct. lP).-Lord,
Albeit & Co., Inc, announced today
the public offering of new issue
of $6,250,OOO in per cent 10-year
secured convertible debentures of
Affiliated Fund, Inc, an investing
company The debentures will ma
ture January l. 1949, and are offered
at par and accrued interest.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Oct. 4 lP,-Eggs. 22.057
irreaular. Mixed colors Fancy to extra
fancy. 23h-2sh; standards. 1923; nrsts
II; seconds. ,17-1s; mediums, 10; dirties
frigerator. fancy heavyweights, 1922;
standards. 17h; frsts. II; seconds, 1874
Whites: Resale of premium marks. 31R-
"a: exchange specials: 81: exchange stand
mediums, 1927 Nearby and Midwestern
exchange mediums: 21is-22; pullets, 1871
and Midwestern standards. 24-242; nrsts
23-2212
Browns; Nearby. extra fancy. 2S1a: near
BY By, and Midwestern. exchange specials
27Ha-22: exchange standards. "a: nearby
mediums. 21; pullets 10
Duck eggs. nearby, 1926
Butter 123 406 irregular. Creamery.
higher than extra. 2aM-3O: extra t92
score). 2Ss4-29: frsts (ss-9D. 24a-27h;
seconds t84-S7), 22h-24
Cheese. 234.77s. quiet. Prices un-
Pacific Coast whites. Jumbo and prem
iuns. 36-37; specials 32-35Ea; standards
30h-31; mediums, 23h-24.
Evening star., 1939-10-04

WW-Wlth warrants. xw-Without wal
rants. New. st (Stp)-Stamped.
sNegotiability impaired by maturity.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
New York Metals.

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (P).-Copper
firm, electrolytic spot, 1200a12 SO;
export unquoted. Tin steady, spot
and nearby, 5000; forward, 47oo.
Lead steady, spot, New York, 55Oa
5.55; East st. Louis, 535. Zinc
steady, East st. Louis, spot and for
ward, $50. Pig iron, aluminium,
antimony, quicksilver, platinum
Chinese Wolframite and domestic
scheelite unchanged.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
New York Bank Stocks
NEW YORK. Oct. 4 DR.

NEW YORK. Oct. 1 R,.-By Investment
Bankers Conference. Inc.
Evening star., 1939-10-04

In bankruptcy or rcceivershir or beine
reorsanized under Bankruptcy Act or
securities assumed By such companies
Rates OF dividends in the FOREGOING table
are annual disbursements based on the last
quarterly or semi-annuaI declara tion un-
less otherwise noted. special or extra divf-
denis are not included
xJ EI dividend xr Ex rights q Also
extra or extras Paid last year fPay-
able IN stock eDeciared or oaid so far
this wear Cash or stock Accumu-
lated dividend paid or declared this year
VI Under rule WV With warrants ~
Evening star., 1939-10-04

Daydreams In traffic soon turn 70
nightmares.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

connected with them in some way.
This conveniently accounts for the
fact that nobody living, it would
seem upon investigation, has seen
a menehune. Nor were they ever
seen by the medicine men" or
witch doctors"-I do not know for
a fact that there were any, but there
were assuredly wise men" who were
called "kahunas," and indeed some
elder Hawaiians of today who are
deeply versed in the native tradi-
tions are given that title.
There are three native Hawaiian
concepts of the menehunes. One is
that they were the original inhabi-
tants of the islands, who gradually
gave way to the heavier bodied an
cestors of the present race. Others
consider that the history of the race
has been forgotten through the
lapse of the ages and that the meme
hunes may have been actual beings
who existed during one of those
dark" periods. According to one au-
thority the more intelligent and bet
ter HaWaiians look upon the meme
hunes as a mythical class of gnomes
or dwarfs and regard the accounts
of their exploits as having been
handed down by tradition for social
entertainment, as other peoples tell
fairy stories.
But whether the scientific hy-
pothesis may be, it is certain that
there are some things in Hawaii that
cannot be satisfactorily explained by
NATURAL laws. And possibly the
menehunes themselves, if they ever
existed, were the best explanation.
If that be a paradox, let it be so.
Certainly the menehune stories on
Kauai are paradoxical.
Faith in Present Existence.
But there is no doubt that a great
many of the HaWaiians of today
nobody can really ascertain how
many-believe implicitly in the
menehunes. They believe not only
that once upon a time there were
such little people" who did prodigi-
Gus things, but that there are some
of them in Hawaii today. Perhaps
not as many as in the long past, per-
haps not as enterprising, maybe de-
generated into mischievious spirits
bent upon prankish and harmful
tricks. This is probably due to the
fact that the primitive Hawaiian
and he is present still in the islands
to surprising extent. despite school,
ing and association with more ad-
vanced people-refuseS to accept
Evening star., 1939-03-02
HowoHIs S Vague Menehunes
Did Prodieious Little People, Live?
Science and Tradition Differ

of today attributed to the mene-
hunes. 1t Is only one of numerous
works of the same character in
Kauai and indeed in othe., islands
Of the group that are by the older
people believed to be the work of
the menehunes. Many paths and
roads on the hillsides and the cliffs
of Kauai, which are so steep that it
would be difficult, if not impossible,
to get workmen to labor on them,
are believed to be of menehune
origin. These passageways are now
generally called "ke-ala- -pii-a -ka-
menehune," which means trails OF
the menehune."
No cliff, the legend of the mene-
huneS runs, was too steep for them
to climb. No task was too arduous
for them to undertake and to ac-
complish. There are no evidences
in Kauai of unfinished works. Some
of the structures attributed to the
menehunes have been partially
demolished in the course of CEN
turies of exposure to the weather,
but the fragments are to be found
in the immediate vicinity, indicating
that the structures were once COM
plete.
Menehune tradition assumes quite
specific form in the folk lore of the
islands, especially in Kauai, which
seems to have been the chief home
of the little people" For example,
it has been asserted that the average
height of the menehune was from
2la to 3 feet; that they lived in
caves and hollow logs.
Scientific investigators of the
menehune tradition-or belief, ac-
cording to taste--are willing to ac-
cept as a fact the existence of a
dwarf race, not possessed in any
degree of supernatural powers, but
capable on account of their tre-
mendous strength and their remark
able energy and their great num-
bers to accomplish wonderful things.
So numerous were they, it would
seem from an examination of the
literature of the menehunes, which
is quite extensive, that In building
walls and heiaus-Which means al
tars or temples-they formed in two
lines and passed stones along from
Evening star., 1939-03-02

strange phenomena as the accom-
plishment Of modern enterprise and
skill and science, but attributes them
to the supernatural forces in which
his grandfather believed. Such a
state of faith is not unknown In the
mainland of America.
The Hawaiians of today do not re-
gard themselves as descendants of
menehunes. They believe that the
"little people," If they existed, were
beings apart. The elders of today
hold che menehunes of tradition in
very high regard. They quietly ex-
toll their virtues, as examples for the
younger generation, who are some
what disposed to pursue the prim-
rose path of dalliance. I have no
doubt that many a patriarchal Ha-
waiian of this period seeks to re-
Evening star., 1939-03-02

hand to hand. Thus two mene-
hunes handled each stone and the
transport required very little time
If, as claimed, the menehune ditch
dam at Waimea was constructed OF
stones that were brought from the
only place where such materials
are now to be found, on the other
side of the island-a distance of
at least 25 miles, across the widest
and most mountainous section of
the island-many thousands of the
little people would have been needed
for such an operation of transport
Dawn Was Deadline.
have noted that according to
the established tradition, menehune
works were always completed in one
night. That is perhaps not quite
the correct way to put the matter
The rule of the menehunes, 1t Is
believed by some investigators, was
that any work that was undertaken
must be finished before dawn
Otherwise it would be left incom-
plete. For, 1t would seem, the meme
hunes had, If not labor union rule
at least law of practice, that If q
task of any kind could not be COM
pleted in one night it must be- left
as it was at dawn. And, further
more, they had rule, or law, OF
understanding, that they must not
labor twice upon the same work.
Legendary lore of this nature is
certain to affect the language of a
people. Thus, there is a saying in
Hawaiian to this effect: He pc
hookahi, 40 ua pau" This means
I'm one night and by dawn it is
finished" 1t is used to indicate
dependably assured results from any
sort of task undertaken.
Pau" by the way, is a favorite
Hawaiian word in present-day par.
lance. 1t means done finished,
beyond amendment" anything that
signifies finality. If a public charac-
ter has lost his grip on the favor OF
the people he is pau" When story
reaches its end it is pau" The des-
sert course of a meal marks it as
pau" The word is applied to every
sort of a situation and is one of the
most expressive in the Hawaiian
tongue. It can be given a wide va
riety of infections. When it is called
called forth from a bored auditor al
political meeting it almost invari-
ably brings tedious speaker quickly
to his peroration.
Race Never Seen.
The menehunes were supposed to
be invisible save to one another, tC
their own descendants or to those
Evening star., 1939-03-02

strain his grandchildren from mis-
chievous courses by citing to them
the industry and the honesty Of the
menehunes.
Stanch Foes Of Thieves.
Honesty" That is an important
word in the text of menehune de-
scription. For these little people"
of the early Hawaiian culture re-
garded thievery as an objectionable
of1ense. They treated robber with
great contempt. It would not oe sur
prising If some day an explorer on
the northern shore of Kauai came
across a cairn beneath which were
the bones of menehuni who had
been stoned to death in punishment
for thievery.
AS 1t is, explorers in wilder por-
Evening star., 1939-03-02

tions Of Kauai now and then find
strangely shaped stones In the vague
form of human being. These are
called "poha a-kina-puna," which
means that they were once mene-
hunes who had committed unpar-
donable offenses against the laws Of
the race and had been condemned to
assume this form forever.
Truly, Hawaii is a rich field for the
mythologist as well as the geologist.
And hence it was that the words Of
the workingman on the bridge at Lii
hue as he looked down at the slow
efforts of a gang Of "mudhogs" to
correct a faulty piece of engineering
and remarked that the menehunes
would have done the work faster and
better made a lasting impression
on my mind.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

vided. Following the banquet the
Welsh national anthem, Mae Hen
Wlad Fly Nhadou," was sung by
the entire party. The invocation was
given by George Musson.
Meetings of the society are held
on the first Tuesday of every month
in the Powell Junior High School,
at Hiatt place NV between La
mont street and Park road, at 8
o'clock.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
A Rich, Full>Bodied Vegetable
Soup-With014t Meat Stock!

Order Heinz Vegetarian Vegetable
and the other nine soups Heinz
makes without meat-Cream of
Mushroom, Cream of Spinach,
Cream of Tomato, Cream of Oyster,
Cream of Asparagus, Cream of
Green Pea, Cream of Celery, Genuine
Turtle and Corn Chowder. Give your
meatless meals verve and variety!
Evening star., 1939-03-02

you'll find hearty Heinz Vege-
/ tartan Vegetable Soup a real
hon7e-tasting mainstay for Lenten
mealsl For this savory blend of
choice vegetables without meat
stock is prepared with all the time
taking care and skill grandmother
used to give her soup-making down
on the farm!