The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-08

BARNSDALL OIL is
OBJECT OF ATTACK
BY BEAR TRADERS
NEW YORK. April Price
changes in today's brief session of
the stock market We're generally
small and unimportant.
Bear traders sensing a weak tech
nical position in the Barnsdall oil
issues, started an attack on those
shares and succeeded in touching
off a number of stop-loss orders
with the result that the A stock
dropped more than 6 points and the
b E S1ying support was forth
coming, however approximately half
of the extreme losses being re-
covered before the close. American
agricultural chemical preferred. and
Iron Products were similarly de-
pressed but each showed fair re-
operative power.
Baldwin and American Locomo-
tives, Studebaker. American WOODEN
American Smelling and Mack Truck
closed fractionally above last nights
levels. Sinclair, the Pan-American
issues. Producers and Refiners.
+. Texas company, Corn products and
Reynolds Tobacco yielded slightly
Rails moved irregularly within
narrow limits the selling pressure
ITO which this group has been sub
Elected apparently having been lifted
flor the time being.
Foreign exchange business was
luuiet and steady. Demand sterling
sheld around S4.661a and French
tfrancs were quoted around $500.
4 Financial.
Days total sales 243,oo0 shares,
Twenty industria1s averaged 1922
SIG; net loss Ii
High 1a33. 1O5.3S; low 1896
Twenty railroads averaged S6.5S;
net loss .o2.
High 1928, 9o63; low S4.53.
EAST ST. LOUIS. April Cattle. re-
aHsipts 800; compared with a week ago:
EUearlings steady: cows CSC higher; Gamers,
td0c to 15c higher; bulls steady; stockers
steers 25c lower; light vealers 46c TO :
higher; tops for week; Steers $s.4O; year,,
Angs $3.50; bulk for week: Steers, $3.50
4 &s.75; yearlings., ST. 70 a 8; cows, s5.5og
1850 Gamers So S9i9 as bulls S45o 70 DC iGc
Aower: top, ss.55; bulk lao to 21O-pound
Beverages. $3.50; 22o pounds and up sS.2S
thogs. ss25; pigs about steady; choice 130-
pound averages, IS; desirable 40 to 40
pounds s7.25@7.75: packer sows 15c to
sheep receipts. $50 compared with last
week. lambs steady to weak all classes
sis: clipped. $12.15; fat ewes. So bulk for
Week. Wool lambs, s14@14.75; clipped
fs11.75@ 12.15; shearing lambs, $l4; fey, few
ewes ss.500p9; heaves. $6.5o@S.
CHICAGO. April Hogs, receipts TO-
600: fairly acSve; &c to Toe lower; mostly
j &C lower; bulk desirable 160 to 225-pound
averages ss4OSs55 top SEA BLK az f 2tS
packing sows s7.25@7.40; medium pigs
s65o@6,75; estimated holdoover. 5000
ss.so@ light. $3.50 s55 light lights
S725ms.4O: packing sows smooth $1,000
7.35; packing sows rough S7'lo~f XIII
'"e cattie. receipts. 900; compared week
ago: Beef steers end best heavy yearlings
steers, s1O.35; bulk steer run medium and
good quality; best l,o7o-popnd year earnings
numerous csc to tiOc lower: butcher she
stock around steady: bulls around 2Sc
lower; few heavy l.olognas closing up to
kinds up most stochers and feeders dull
1oc to csc lower. Weeks bulk bulk prices pr fol
ers and feeders, 1915 @7.75: beef cows and
heifers s5.75@775; Gamers. and and cutters
$500 as veal calves e6o $S;no sti, d,r.ct
Compared with week ago; Fat lambs. 26c
to 4oc lower; matured sheen st steaa3y 10
WeehSs bulk prices: Wooded lambs, 14@
1875: heavy $t25o@13.5o; feeders and
shearers, sla.75 @14.25; fat = sh9rn lambs
wethers, ss.5om10: wooded ewes IS @S.!5;
top 50; California spring lambs lambs $ fSo
seconds. s1S,;, odd lot native springs wv
@25 to small killers.
NEW YORK. April Cattle, receipts
Az: no trading. Calves, receipts $50;
lower. Good Ohio veals. s12 per 100 pounds
r.s shssp sS ns s s5ssas Fe' sas az
s @io.5o: cults s9@io.
Hogs, receipts. 1850; steady. Medium
weights. ss.25@9. so, pigs and heavy hogs,
$3.50 9.25 roughs, 1925 $3.50.
LAM hAMsAin 100 for week eek, Beef steers and
tearlings. 35c to SOC higher; top, $3.50;
q ''a CSC 'i higher: Gamers and stock calves
steady: cutters strong to 15c higher; bulls
Ind stock cows and hefers .os STEADY h1g,s TO
stockers and feeders strong to &c higher'
Hogs, receipts. 5000: bulk $50 to 2SO-
Rio. or steady to weak with yesterdays
average packer market bulk or sales sSW
$40; packing sows steady nu.k S Suing
lambs around 25c lower; other kilng
fasses steady; top Lambs, 81 sd44o i,r light
Iii. IS; bulk, s1n75 q II 20: shorn wethers,
IS; most wooded ewes ss,5o@s75.
, ono steady to SC and 1oc bower heaves,
)s25 1875; packers and hltchers' $3.50
Cattle receipts 75 steady. Calves. dull,
zoe lower; s5@11.50. ~ ,,h.
sheep receipts. 200; s,eauS' iaiAo'
bteady.
LOUISVILLE. Ky April 7 Sc Steers re-
ssms'75: beef steers. $3.50 a s;25; COWS;
fs@s5o feeders, s6@725' sto"kers' $500
@6.75. oon. steadv 70 2oc
,oner. 1s5 poupds up. $3.50; 12o to ls5