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Show T1ADI 1 STOCKS SHOWSJNjWCREASE Also There Is Further Activity Ac-tivity jn Foreign Exchange Ex-change at Higher Prices NEW YORK, Oct Dealings In the varlo s securities tl at are being traded In under tl e dtrectle of a -ommittee which Includes rcpresentall es of the stock exchange, are said to tave In creased material!) so far thto week. There has been conslderab c demand for some j of the unlisted bonds and tl e shares of several Industrial companies ohose busl neas (ar from suffering b the Euro pean crisis Is said to have profited sub stantlallj In the corb division the In qulry has been mainly for Standard OH subsidiaries There waa further activity today In foreign exchange at fractionally higher rates aa the result of li creaaed demand from commercial Interests, which have heavy commitments expiring In London n I thin the next fortnight. The gold pool bougl t exchange in larger amounts than at an time since its organization, and another moderate shipment of gold o Otta va was made In the Vocal money market the most slgnlfl ant de eloi ment waa the freer acceptance of mercantile paper by banks I New England a d t e mldd e west. This was reported as an Indication of lm pending bettermei t In commercial Unas and waa confirmed In part by advices from ae oral trade centera to the effect that n erchandtae purchases were pro oecdlng with mors liberality The government Top report abowed few Important cbangea from tha preced lng month with tl e exception of corn In which a better condition was dls cloned together with a large Indicated yield Winter wheat estimates were srtghil) under September figures and spring wheat a too fell back slightly eekj re lews of tie steel Industrv were of tl e -ame dubious tiaracter as tboso reconlb advanced and were at tendod b rep rts of further curtailment and deferred dividends Because of the state of tl la trade nore than ordinary I iterast attacl es to the report of un fUled tonnage lo be lean od by the I nlted States hieel corporation at tl e end of the week Private ables from London Indicated that rosumpt on of rnr lar business b I In stock exrliange la a matter (or fu ture consideration with the o itcome rest lng In Ibe hands of the government- The British trade report for Baptember ahov. I eavy decrsases both In Imports and ex porta, but (or tl e nine months of tl e a lender year Imports are larger by al most 124 WO 000 |