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Show feTEEL 15 STRONG ALTHOUGH THE HARKmS HS8 ACTIVE Specialties Rise From One to Five Points, News of the Day Favorable to Higher j Prices I By BROAD AN WALL By International lsess Service j NEW YORK, Dec 3 Although some what less active the steel market was strong todaj Standard Iss es rose an average of a point while specialt es ad vanced from one to ft e rlnts Commls sion houses repo ted a si ght vo ume of buying but the r se In values vias la ge y attributed to the covering of profess on a s. Yesterday's weakness extended to to day s opening prices show ng slight de cli es The lower eve drew out buy ng orders that qu ckly caused a ra ly To ward t e end of t e first hour there was a s tght recess on but the upward move ment was resumed in the second hour and g ven added impetus in the ear y afternoon Closing prices were only si ght y under the best Message Forgotten The pres dent s message wh ch was given so much prom nen.ee n the reasons for "Wednesday s and yesterday s d s patches seemed to have been fo gotten News essen ial in the making of secur Ity prices continues favorable in the shape of increased ra lroad earnings teports of bus ness tmproveme t and cheap money Comm ss on houses howe er do not ex pect much acti itj un ess quotat ons move up for notwltl stand ng the fa vorable cond tlons they say experience has shown that the customers do not act unti the market s ows d st net s gns of strength For th s reason they look for a greater volume of o ders on the b ylng s de without any furtl er r se in quota t ons War Stocks Higher Vv ar stocks partlc pated in the ebound in ma ket p Ices but oth ng ke weeks ago when p b c specu at on was 1 eavy Bethlehem bteel rose fif een po nts Commlss on 1 ouses reported a feood de mand for copper shares Amer can Smelting was the most act ve of this group with Anaconda second and In sp ra on th rd The latter was n espe c a demand during the forenoon Chi e Copper a so did better Southern Pacific was bought on revived rumors that a snd cate contemp ated buy ng Pennsylvan a s holdings of South ern Pacific |