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NEW ORLEANS COTTON MARKET
 NEW ORLEANS, March 24.-The bears had matters pretty much all their own way today, as the market was on the down grade from start to finish except for a couple of slight rallies around the middle of the. session. Ac-- tive trading months opened 27 to 4 points down from the previous close with May 2s.65c. July at 27.67c and October at 24.75c. The market weak ened steadily under persistent and heavy selling and reached the low points of the day in the final trading with May at 27.51c, July at 2s.e7c. and the lowest of the day showing net losses of Al to 142 points on old crop months and 99 to 105 points on new crop positions.
 At the start Liverpool cables were lower than due and this coupled with a fair weather map started selling from the very start. As the session advanc- ed selling became general by those bearishly inclined who had been held in check for more than a week by a persistent spell of bad weather. A good deal of liquidation was also reported by tired longs. The market was un- able to absorb the mass of selling ex- cept at serious decline in prices.
 Bearish sentiment was also encourag- ed by the unfavorable position of the dry goods market and during the after noon Worth street reported further de- clines in bleached goods and prints which were promptly seized upon by the bears to hammer the market fur ther. Around noon there were. two brief attempts at rally, the last one causing a recovery of a little more than 20 points, but they were short lived and selling increased in volume as the afternoon progressed until the lowest sales of the day were recorded right at the close.
 There were some map indications of another rainy spell coming in the western belt in the face of two days of almost ideal weather the disposi- tion to sell could not be checked. The fact that the publication of the re- port of the Hoover committee examin- ing into the accuracy of the depart ment of commerce's statistics was fur ther delayed was an added aid to the bears as the expectation of that re- port for today was the main sustain ing influence last week. Many trad CTS considered the market oversold at the end and looked for rally tomor- row, particularly should there be a change in the weather.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, March 24.-Re- ceipts and demand for horses and mules was of fair volume and the trade reflected a generally steady trend in the various classes. Quotations:
 Native horses: Good to choice drafts, s165@225; medium to good drafts, s11o @165; good to choice chunks, $759100; medium to good chunks. $5o@75; choice southern horses, $7o@11o; fair to good southern horses, $30670; smooth mouthed southerners, $15@30.
 Native mules: Draft mules, 1s to 17 hands, s175Q240; sugar mules. 1e to 16.2 hands, $165@225; mine mules, 15 to 15.2 hands, S12O@165; top cotton mules, 15.2 to 1e~hands, $14o@165; cotton mules. 15 to 152 hands, es0@1Oo; small cheap mules, $25@65.
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PORT MOVEMENT

New Orleans: middling, 2S.13c; re- ceipts, 2.255; sales, sos; stock, 1S5,02s. Galveston: middling, 28.00c; receipts, LOOT; sales. 1,241; stock, 1s2,SS6.
 Mobile: middling, 27.50c; stock, g. 4sS.
 Savannah: middling, 27.25c; receipts, 799; exports, 213; sales, 75; stock, 40,- 130. N Charleston: receipts, 57s; stock. 27.- 267. --.-
 wilmington: receipts, 6s; stock, 1s.- 396.
 Eexas City: stock, fl.
 Norfolk: middling, 27.25c; receipts, PAS; exports, 1000; sales, 296; stock, 6s,- 211.
 Baltimore: stock, 1928.
 Boston: middling, 2s.s5c; receipts, 190; exports, 12s; stock, 5.600.
 Philadelphia: :niddling, 27.60c; stock, S,225.
 New York: middling, 27.35c; exports, 2,3I1; stock, 151. .968.
 Minor ports: stock, 2,030.
 Total today: receipts, 5.147; exports, ana; sales, 2,4l5; stock. 651 ,599.
 Total for week: receipts, 11,475; ex- ports. 9,S37. Total for season: receipts, COOS, ,204; exports, 4,466,7
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HUBBARD BROS. & co,

NeW Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York Produce Exchange. AssOelated Nembers Liverpool Cotton AssOcIatioH Orders solicited for the purchaHe and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed oil fo1 future delivery. Special cOnsiEnments of spot cotton fOE delivery.
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COTTON GOODS

NEW YORK, March 24.-Cotton goods were weaker in the local market, today. Offerings of domestic at low prices were made by some jobbers. Yarns were unsettled and irregular. Wool goods, especially mems wear for fall delivery, were quiet. Artificial silk novelties and specialties were sell ing better than a year ago in wash fabrics and other linens. BurIaps showed no change.
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COTTON sEEn nIL

NEW YORK, March 24.-Cotton seed oil sold off F to IA points early today on the slump in cotton and slow trade demand, but no pressure developed, and the market was somewhat steadier at the last, with net losses to points. Sales, 7,700 barrels. Prime crude, SSI2h QS.25; prime summer yellow spot, $s.45 Q9.76; March closed s9.45, May S963, July $10.03, all bid.
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POTATO MARKET

CHICAGO. March 24-Potatoes firm; receipts, IA cars; total United States shipments. 9O2: Wisconsin sacked round whites, United States No. l, $1.25@ 1.40; few fancy, $1.45; Minnesota and North Dakota sacked Red river Ohios, $1.309145; Idaho sacked russets, United States No. 1, $1.25@3OO; No. 2, $2.25.
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'RREl'l]LARITY
 NOTED ON CURB Most sOf Active Issues Move Within Marrow
 Range

NEW YORK, March 24.--Stock prices moved irregularly higher In today's curb, market, most of the active issues moving within a narrow area. A gain of points in Standard Oil of Nebraska and a break of points in Prairie oil and Gas were the prin- cipal developments in the oil group. Wilcox Oil and Gas was hammered down nearly point, but the rest of the list held relatively firm on reports of q further reduction in California oil production.
 American Gas and Electric coinnnon, which moved up 5 points to s5. q. account for the rise, featured the in- dustrial list. Grand Five and Ten-Cent Stores established a new top at $, and Kresge common and 8 per cent pre- ferred improved fractionally in sym pathy with the sensational jump in the old stock on the "big board"
 Rio issues held firm. Durant Motors advanced. points and Jordan l,
 Tn the, bond list American Sumatra 7hs of 1925 broke 2 points to 7s, and then recovered half of their loss.
 CASH GRAIN
 CHICAGO, March 24--wheat, No. 1 hard, s1.11h. Corn, No. 8 mixed, 7ek ore: No. 3 yellow. ,77079c. Oats, No. 2 white, 4eh @49Nc; No. 8 white, 47H @4s1tc. Rye, No. ?. 66ss @e6%c. Bar ley, 6S@64c. Timothy seed, $4.500s. .0o. Glover seed, $1e.50@2S.50. Lard, S10.eS. Ribs, 6o-pound average, ss.5o. Bellies, s1o.25.
 KANSAS CITY, Mo, March A. Wheat, No. 9 hard, $1.00@1.0s; No. 2. g. .06@1.0s. Corn, No. yellow, TAG: No. mixed. 72c. Oats, No. white. 4sh 05Oc. ksr,. h
 TOLEDO, O., March 24.-clover seed prime old, s1S.75; new and March s11.e5; October, $12.45. Alsilxe. prime, $9.00. Timothy seed. prime cash and March. $3.70; May, 3.s0.
 NEW YORK, March 24.--Flour quiet: spring patents, $6.1066.50; soft winter straights, S5.00@5.30; hard winter straights, $5.5o@600. @s,
 Rye quiet; No. 2 Western, s0k f. O. b. New York and 7SIs c. 1. f. export.
 Barley firmer; malting, S9692 c, i. f. New York; pork steady; mess, SPA. .75D 25.75; family, S27.00@2s.00.
 Lard steady; middle west, $11.4o@ 11.50. \ a4.
 ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 24.-Cash wheat; No. l red, S1.1s; No. 9 red, $1 IA @1.18; corn. No. white, 761k OPTIC; No. 8 yellow, 7sts@79c. Oats: No. 2 white. 4sIsG50c; No. 8 white, 49@4szc. Close futures wheat: May. $1.osM; July, $1.03S. Corn: May, 7Shc; July, 79hc; Oats: May, 4Shc.
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CnEFEE MARKET

NEW YORK, March 24.-Coffee flu lures opened at an advance of 15 to IS points today on reports of steadiness in Brazil, but soon weakened under liquidation which seemed to come chiefly through brokers with cotton trade and Wall street connections. May declined from 1S.6O@13.3Oc and September from 1240012.00c with the market closing at net declines of to 25 points. Sales were estimated at S3,- GOO.
 Closing quotations: March, 140Oc; May, 13.30c; July, 12.74c; September. October, 11.95c; December, 11.69c; March 1925, 11.35c.
 Spot coffee dull; Rio, 7la 1514; San tos As, 19ls@2O. Cost and freight of fers included 3s and 5s part Bourbon at 19.00@19.s5c.
 Rio exchange on London, 1-16 pence lower. Dollar buying rate, 50 reis high CT. Rio market, $50 to 475 reis higher Santos, 150 to 525 reis lower. Bra gillian port receipts, 50,0OO; Jundiahy 22,000
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. March 24.- Turpentine firm, 97c; sales, 94; receipts, 62; shipments, 5S5; stock, 16,925. Rosin firm; sales, 654: receipts, S29; ship ments, 935; stock, 125,04S. Quote: B. $4.35; D, $4.50; E. $4.55; F to M, $4.65; N, $4.7O; we, $@65; wv, ss.So.
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SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, March 24.-spot cotton steady, 100 points down; sales on the spot, 450; to arrive, 353; low middling, 26.13c; middling, 2S.13c; good middling, 29.25c; receipts, 2,255; stock, 135, ,029.
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FLOUR MARKET

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March A. Flour unchanged; family patent, S6.35 @6.55 a barrel. Shipments, 40,6S6 bar fels. Bran, $22.50@23.OO.
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SUGAR MARKET

NEW YORK, March 24-An easier feeling developed in the local raw sugar market today. Local refiners bought a small quantity of Cuban at $6.65, decline of kc.
 Demand for refined showed no i'm provement. Prices were unchanged at $8.40 to $S60 for fine granlated.
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FLAX SEED
NAVAL STORES

DULUTH, Minn., March 24-Close Flax-March, SPAS; May, $2.371a; July S2.34.
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RAW SILK

NEW YORK. March 24-Raw silk, no tone; prices, per pound: Kansai double extra cracks. S6.85m6.90; Kansai best No. 1, $6.60d6.7O; Shinshu No. 1. $6.5696.60; Canton extras, A 14-16, $5.95 @6.50; Shanghai-China steam fiI gold double deer, $715G725.
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NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK. March 24.-Folievins todsy's high, low and closing prices ef stocks listed the Rev York Stock Exchange:
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INTERIOR MOVEMENT

Houston: middling, 27.75c; receipts, FATS; shipments. 6.022; sales. 605; stock, 166, ,1S1.
 Memphis: middling. 2s.2hc; receipts, 1,641; shipments. 2,024; sales, 625; stock, 94,276. Augusta: middling, 2769; receipts, 2S4; shipments, PA; sales, 23; stock, 26,- s71.
 St. Louis: middling, 2s.OOc; receipts, LIT; shipments, 1.177; stock, 1896.
 Atlanta: middling, 27.T5c.
 Little Rock: middling, 2s.25; receipts. 106; sales, 167; stock, 21,453.
 Dallas: middling, 26.95c; sales, 627. Montgomery: middling, 27.60c.
 Total today: receipts, 5,631; ship ments, 9,4S7; sales. 2.O47; stock. 316. .727.
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NAvA1. STORES

SAVANNAH, Ga, March 24.-Tur- pentine firm, 97Ac; sales. 4Sc; receipts, S5; shipments none; stock, 6159. Rosin firm; sales. 225 receipts. PAS; ship ments none: stock. 55,172. Quote: B, D, $4.50@4.62h; E. $455@4.62la: F, G, H, I, $4.6219 64.65; K, M, $4.65; N, $4.70; we, $5.65; WINK, $6.2O.
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LOUISVILLE. Ky, March 24LCat- tie: Receipts, 300; active, strong; heavy steers, $S,00@9.00; beef steers, $5.00@ s.75; heifers, s5.OO@s.75; cows, $3.5O@ $50; feeders, $4.50@7.00; stockers, $500 @6.00.
 Hogs: Receipts, 2,s00; steady to 10c lower; 165 pounds up, $7.s5; 12O to 165 pounds. S7.0o; pigs, $4.65Q5.40; throw outs, $5.70 down.
 lambs, $12.oo; choice, $1s.0O@14.oO.
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NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK. March 24.--FeIovIns are todsys htsh iew and closing priee cf bonds On the New Work stsek Esshsnss and 'ths tetaI sales of each
 UNITED STATES BONDS
 Rsaders should note that Liberty bends are quoted n dollars and thirty seconds Of dollars Instead of dollars and esats. The trsetous are designated by aivinp the numerator oniy..
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FOREIGN EXCHANCEs

NEW YORK, March 24.-Foreign ex- changes firm; quotations in cents: Great Britain demand S4.29L; cables, $4.29is sixty day bills on banks, S427. France. 5.S71a and 5.3Sla Italy, 4.31H and 4.32H; Belgium, 4.29 and 4.30; German (Per trlllion), .22; Holland, s6.79; Norway, 1867; Sweden, 26.47; Denmark, 15.73; Switzerland, 17.26; Spain. 1901; Greece, 1.72; Poland, .OO0O12; Czecho-SlovaEia. 2.9OlS: Jugo- Slavia, 1.23; Austria, .0O14k; Rumania, 5ek; Argentine. S3.T5; BraziR 1l2S; Tokio, 42; Montreal. 97 5-16.
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LIYERPOOL CnrTnN

LIVERPOOL, March 24.-Cotton spot, good business done; prices easier; good middling, 17.72d; fully middling, 17.27d; middIing, 16.S2d; low middling, 15.97d; good ordinary, 14.o7d; ordinary, 1447d. Sales, 5000 bales. including 5,400 Amer ican. Receipts none. Futures closed easy. March, 16.59d; May, 16.49d; July, 1614d; September, 15.14d; October, 14.6$d; December, 14.26d; January,
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NEW YORK CURB
IN DUST RlALS

eiai list of traasastons on ths New York Club
 Exchange, giving all stocks and bonds traded In:
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NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 24.-Cat- tie: Receipts, 500; market steady; heavy steers, $7.50@S.25; beef steers, $5.25Q6.50; feeders, $4.5O@6.5O; stock, CTS, $2.50Q5.00.
 Hogs: Receipts, 1000; medium and heavy hogs 6c lower; pigs and light hogs 10aa lower; 200 pounds and up, $7S0; 16S1 to 200 pounds, $7S0; 130 to 1s5 pounds, $7.05; pigs, $4.7OQ5.4O throwouts, $5.7O down.
 Sheep nominal; fat sheep, S6.OO6 TOO; choice lambs, $1O.OOQ12.0O.
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LIVE STOCK

CINCINNATI, O., March 24-Hogs: Receipts, 5000; market steady to =5c lower; heavy. s7.75@s.1o; packers and butchers, $s.1o; medium, $s.1o; stags, $3.5o@4oo; heavy fat sows, $5.o0@60o; pigs and lights. s4.5697.25.
 Cattle: Receipts, 1,4oO; market steady; steers. $7.5O@s75; heifers, s4.OO@9.25; cows, $S.oOQ6.50; calves steady, $4.0o@ 2.5o.
 Sheep: Receipts, 50, s1.OoGs.Oo; lambs steady, s600@16.oO.
 KANSAS CITY. Mo-, March 24.- Cattle: Receipts, 12,0oo; calves, 2.0o0; better grades beef steers steady; others slow, weak to 15c lower; bulk fed steers, $80009.70; beef cows steady; heifers and yearlings dull, unevenly lower; beef cows, $4.50@600; canners and cutters, $2.5O@3.75; practical top veals, S95o; stockers and feeders steady; bulk, $6.50@S.0O.
 Hogs: Receipts, 11,000, mostly 10c lower; bulk of sales, $7O0Q7.30; pack ing sows mostly $6.3o@6.5O; stock pigs 10c to 15c higher; bulk, $5.754615.
 Sheep: Receipts, coco; lambs slow, generally steady to 15c lower, at $15.5O G16.oo; sheep about steady; shorn wethers, 5000.
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CHICAGO, March 24.-Cattle: Re- ceipts, 2z,OOO; opening sales, beef steers and yeaFlings around steady; bulk later sales, very uneven, mostly 1Oc to 25c lower; top matured steers. s11 90: yeariings, $11.50; bulk, $S.75@10.5O; fat she-stock. canners, cutters and bulls around steady; bulk fat sows. S5.OO6 6.76; heifers. S7.00Qs.5O; bologna bulls. $4.65W4.S6; vealers uneven, 25c to Soc lower; bulk light and handy weight to pacKers, $9.OOg1O.O0; few to outsiders, S11.O0 and above; stockers and feeders scarce; around steady.
 Aogs; Receipts, 7S,000; opened fairly active, Dc to 10c lower; light weight showed minimum decline. closing very slow; big packers talking 25c lower: bulk good and choice 15o to 24O-pound average $7.45@76O; top, $7.60; desira-
 4oQT60;, bulk packing sows, S6'60G o:eo; bulk strong weight killing pies $6.6007OQ; estimated holdover. sS ono
 Sneep: Receipts, 10000; best fat handy weight lambs, early, strong: others weak to 25c lower; sheep scarce. steaeyi ieeding and shearing lambs steady; bulk desirable fat wooded lambs, $l6.oOQ16.6O; top, $i6.6o; good clipped lambs, $14.OOq1425; choice ss- pound yearling wethers, S14.75. nsrt car aged wethers, $12.25; odd lots fat ewes upward to $11.50; best shearing lambs, $16.0O. 'As
 EAST ST. LOUIS, H., March 24- Hogs: Receipts, 1S.OOO; market 1oc to lbc lower; top, $7.75; bulk mediuu weight and heavy butchers. S7.6OSS7 65. light weights, $750@7.6O; light iights $0OQ160; good weight killing pies $6:69Q70oi 100 pounds and down. S5.oo VS;OV; packer sows, $e.50Q6.6O.
 CatIet Receipts. S,OO0;. beef steers steady; bulk, s7OoQ95O; top, S9.sO; light yearling steers and heifers Isc to 26cs lower; bulk, S7.OO@7. 60: baef cows steady to 15c lower; bulk. s4 so g6.O0; cAnners 1Oc to 15c lower at Sa 40 g2.IS; bologna bulls unchanged at $4,50 gS:0O; few. $6;25; top calves, $10.25: se ou5k, Ls .. SS;oOg1o'OO; few stocker steers,
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Total sales Of beads. $4ss.6oO. .l
POULTRY AND PRODUCE

CHICAGO, March A.-Butter lower; creamery extras. 45c; standards, 45c; 44c; seconds. 42h043c Eggs steady; receipts, 2SO97 cases; flrsts. axe; or dinary firsts, 1914 620c; storage pack, extras, 2S%c; storage pack, firsts, 2SNc.
 KANSAS CITY. Mo, March 24.- Eggs 1c higher; firsts, 19c; selects. 24c. Butter: Creamery 1c lower, 51@62c; packing unchanged, 2sc. Poultry un- changed; hens, 21c; broilers, 40c; springs. S5c; roosters, 13c Potatoes un- changed; western whites, $1.45Q1.65.
 NEW YORK. March 24.-Butter weak; receipts, 11,5Ts; creamery higher tras, e2 score, <451t Q46c; creamery firsts, ss to 91 score, 43% Q45c: packing stock, current make No. 2, soc. Eggs firm; receipts, 15,550 fresh gathered, extra firsts, 24iz 625c; do. fifsts. 23% 0 24c; do. seconds and poorer, 234 9231ac. New Jersey and other hennery whites, closely selected extras, 33@35c; state, nearby and nearby western hennery whites. firsts to extras, 26932c; nearby hennery browns. extras, 28930c; Pa cific coast whites, extras, 33@35c; do. firsts to extra firsts, 2S632c. Cheese irregular: receipts, 154,676; state whole milk flats. fresh fancy, 19h 6201sc; do. average run. 1sIs G19c; state whole milk flats held fancy to fancy specials, 24@ 26Ac; do. average run, 23023hc.
 CHICAGO, March 24.-Poultry, alive, higher: fowls, 25c; springs, 3Oc; roost- CTS, lie; geese, 16c.
 NEW YORK, March A.-Live, poul- try firm; chickens by express, 279S5c; by freight, 25930c; broilers, freight, 40 450c; express, 50G55c; fowls, freight, 29c; express, 29QS0c; roosters, freight, 1Sc; turkeys, freight, BOG; express, S5 G45c. Dressed poultry firm; chickens, 25d Soc; fowls, 22@33c; old roosters, IS Q24c; turkeys, 26Q35c.
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NEW YORK, March 24.-Steel prices, f. O. b. Pittsburg, per 100 pounds: Blue anneSsSd sheets, $500; galvanized sheets, $4.95; black sheets, $375@S.S5; steel bars, $2.40.
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NEW YORK. March 24.-Call money firmer, high Sc; low, Sc; ruling rate, Sc; closing bid, Sc; offered at Shc; last loan, Sc; call loans against ac- ceptances, 2%: time loans easy; mixed collateral, 6o-90 days, 41sc; 4-6 months, 41s@4%c; prime commercial paper, Az @4Mc.
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fetal sales of stseks. s52,6oo shares.
 DOMESTIC aoNDs
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STEEL REPORT
 BOOSTS STOCKS
Corporation Strongest In Its History, Figures
 Reveal

NEW YORK, Marcn S4-lrreSuiar price movements characterized today's relatively quiet session of the stock market. Renewed selling pressure against the motors and few specula- tive industrials, such as American Can and American Woolen, was counteract- ed by strength of some of the railroad and high priced merchandising issues.
 Publication of the annual report of the United States Steel Corporation brought fresh buying into the common stock which crossed par and then fell American Sumatra and Tobacco Prod day. The report showed the corpora tion to be in the strongest position in its history. Independent steel shares improved in sympathy. but were un- able to maintain early gains.
 Selling of motors was predicated on additional reports of unfavorable con- Astions in the automobile industry. studebaker was hammered down to e1M, another new 1924 low, but ral- lied slightly later, on official denial Of reports that the corporation intended going on a four day a week basis. New low records in the group also were established by Pierce Arrow preferred, Timken Roller Bearing and Maxwen Motors A.
 oil shares were in brisk demand early on reports of further improvement in the announcement that criminal pro- ceedipgs would be instituted against certain principals in the naval OH Iease case. Tobacco stocks lost ground on rumors that conditions probably would result in smaller profits this year American Sumatra and Tobacco Prod- nets falling to new bottom prices.
 Heavy selling of American Can just before the close was based on alleged inside information that no extra dlVl- dend would be authorized at tomor- rows meeting of the board of directors. American beet sugar common register ed an extreme gain of 2A points on the resumption of dividends while the preferred broke six points, to 70, new tow.
 Kreyge recorded a sensational jump of 20 points to 36), record high Tor nll time, while woolworth touched new top at 345, closing at S4S for net gain of nearly 10 points.
 In the railroad group, new top prices for the year were established by llli- pois Central, Common and preferred and Frisco preferred. Lackwanna, which has been heavily bought on EneCuIaITVS expSCldILOh OA of distribution to it's stock holders, fell back more than two points on reports that such action was unlikely. 2 Erratic fluctuations of the French franc featured the foreign exchange market, demands bills opening ? points hiaher at 5.6S cents and then cancelling most of their gain. Most of the other European rates held firm. Call money held steady at 8 per cent. Loans up to 90 days in the time money market were Az bid. 4Ia asked with borrow CTS indisposed to pay the higher figure for the shorter maturities. Conner cial paper showed a slightly firmer tone, the bulk of the business being done at "A per cent against Az late last week.
 Total stock sales, S63.00o shares.
 Twenty industrials averaged 96.25; net loss, IS.
 Nigh, 1924: 1o1.24: low, 94.ss.
 Twenty railroads averaged S4.9S; net gain, 0s.
 TIieh 1e24. S59O. low. S2.T4.
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FOREIGN MONEY

LONDON, March 24.-Bar silver, S3% pence per ounce. Money, 2b per cent. Discount rates, short bills, 8 per cent; S-month bills, sos 1-16 per cent.
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HORSES AND MULES

Total sales of hords today were Sio s@6 900, e.na pared with $2,649.OOo previous day and si2e5 0O' a
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NEW YORK, March 24.-Coppel quiet: electrolytic spot and futures 13% Q14c; tin easy; spot and nearby S53.O0; futures, $51 .00. Iron steady; No 1 Northern, $225O@24.00; No. 2 Northern S2I, ,5O623.OO; No. 2 Southern, $2S.00@ 2S.50 lead steady. spot. $500; zinc quiet; East St. Louis spot and nearby $6.37@6.45. Autimony spot, $11.5O.
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STEEL. MARKET

NEW YORK, March 24.-Bar silver ,3%c; Mexican dollars, 4SFsc.
Smyrna times., 1924-03-26

Easton, Md, has reached its quota
in the drive to raise the money to
guarantee a franchise in the Eastern
Shore Baseball League. The goal set
at $4,000 was we'll subscribed, but the
hackers will still continue to put the
shares on the market in an effort to
create a safe working capital. Frank
Baker headed a committee of five,
which went to Salisbury Thursday af-
ternOon to make formal application
for the Eastern franchise. The other
members of the committee which will
represent Easton are the Rev. Thomas
Donaldson, James c. Goodwin, Charles
Shipley and Claude Wheatley. The
managerial reins will be handled by
Frank Baker, former home-run king
of the majors. He already has his
eye on several likely looking boys to
round out a classy nine. He does not
expect to have a penant winner the
first year, but promises real base ball
Smyrna times., 1924-03-26

Miss BERTHE G. Bryan, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Bryan, of near
Lewes, and Kline G. Pepper, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Emile W. Pepper, of
Harbeson, were married Saturday
night, March Is, at Milton by the Rev.
]. C. Mccoy, pastor of the Milton
Methodist Episcopal Church.