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Show OH GROUP FALLS SHARPLY Segregation Plan Attacked by Short Interests and Losses Follow NEW YORK. Feb. 15. Publication overnight of the terms of the Reading segregation plan directed attention to those shares at the opening of today's stock market Reading common ojiened at a decline of IVi points. Immedlat.lv extending Its loss to 2U, followed bv & substantial rally. The first preferred made an Initial gain of a fraction, soon Increasing Its advance to 2 points I'th.-rwlse changes were malnlv upward. especially among specialties. Pronounced Pronounc-ed strength was shown bv Beet Sugar. General Asphalt. Tobacco "Products, Famous Fa-mous Players and Goodrich. Oils were higher for the most part, but Texas Pacific Pa-cific Coal & (ill added to yesterdays sharp decline. Exchange on London was strong at highest quotations thus far this year. Speculative Interest continued to revolve re-volve around Reading, shorts evidently regarding the proposed Man as anything put a bullish factor. From their" early nest prices, the common and flrat and second preferred shares reacted 414. 1"h and . point, respectively. Refore noon the list rallied IrregnlarK. Baldwin Locomotive Lo-comotive and Crucible Steel recovering their losses, while other steels and .iii;.ments were relatively strong. Oils be. iim.. more erratic, Texan Pacific real ft oil Increasing Its loss and California anJl. Mexican Pcroleums lolng ground with Standard Oil of New Jersev while I General Asphalt followed n opposite course. rllng with several of the shippings ship-pings 1 all money opened at seven per c.nt The Reading m-oun added materially to its oases during thr, mld-seolon other leaders also recording further declines. de-clines. Increased pressure was directed SSTB, In Si the minor motors as well as oil rubb.-r leather and paper Issue at extreme ex-treme recensions of 1 to 2 points im roveraent in the last hour resulted largely from buying of efub,m-nts and BtOi Is Readlne- common recovering only a small pari of it-; ir,q. The closing was lrreeulr As a whole, shorts made life of the Readlne nlan today to depress the general -Mock list. Kxtrerne losses among rails. Industrial: and SnecialtleS ranged in.,,, 1 in r, points. Sales approximated SoO.OOC shares. NEW YORK STOCK LIST (Last Sale) Allls-Chalmers 37 American Meet Sugar !!.!.! 49 American Cnn .. .. , ' 30V American dr a- Foundry . .. 124 American Tilde ft Lea'he'r pfd .. 4.". American International Corp 4T14 American Lncnmotlvw KflH American Smelting A Refg. . . . . . . . . 43H American Sugar 93V, American Sumatra Tobacco 7 American T X- T inn American YY'oolen . f.4 Anaconda Copper . .............. 3psi Atchlop ....si. Rl VL Ml Oulf A YV. Indies 66 Pal. twin Locomotive 92 Rahlmore ft Ohio ... ' 3aa Rethlebem Stee) .rg.. ''' g, Canadian r-efc 11714 Central Leotber , ... 3954 Chandler Motors .. . 74 ChesapeaVe ft Ohio '.. R" Cbloarrn. Mil. and St. Paul .' . ... 2?4 Chicago. R. I ft Pac 2654. Chlno Conner Colorado p., el ft fron 2't Corn Prcducts 7'i' Crucible S'eel i. 961. c,,ba Cane Sugar 2RVI Erie 18 Ceneral electric 131 General Motors 144 Goodrich. Co . . . 39- Creat Nor'hern rfd 7571 Great NVrthern Ore Ctfs .... 297' Illinois Central S94 TnsplrnMon Conner 35i Tnt Mer Marine pfd 53; international Paoer 59 Kennecoft Conner ' 19t Louisville ft Nashville 100H Vnxwrll Motors SU Mexican Petroleum 162H Mnrnl Conner isw Wdle S'ite Oil 13S Mld'-nlo S'eel . m u Mlsnoorl Pacific isn, New- Y'ork Central . . . ! . 71Y1 v v n ir ft mrffnrd 20 Norfolk ft YVestern . 99 Northern Pacific 8"7' Oklahoma Prod, ft Ref 81U Ran American Petroleum 77 Pennsrlvanle 9oh People's Gas ?;i Pittsburg Vet Va. ..!....!!!!! 29U Rav Consolidated Copper 18i Reading 76 s; Rep Iron ft Sfeel " S7U Roval Dutch NY. fi-v; Shell T--ans. ft Trad .'.'."41MB Sinclair Cf-n. Oil 24 Southern Pacific ,. "' 7Ra, Southern Pnwav "' '1 Standard Oil of N. J. pfd. ...... ...lOtSf Stud-baker Corporation C9 Tennev-see Copper RSJ Tevas Co 4?ll4 Txaa ft Pacific .'. 22 Tobacco Products ' 55 Trans'ccnf Inental Oil 914 T'nion Pacific: . ' 120U U S. Foci Products ' 237Z U S Re'all Stores "' RSU U. S Ind Alcohol ... T 61 Un'f. d States Rubber '.. . 70i TTnRed States Steel jui Uf.ah Conper ' gr.v, YY'-stlnghous Electric .' 43s; YY'llIvs Overland g American "inc Lead and Sm 9U Butte ft Superior 13 Cala. Pe'roleum .' . 4014 Montana Power .68HD ShattucV- Arizona .'...!'. R Pure oil fji Ti Invincible Oil W 221Z General Asphalt .i.i,.;!! 69H |