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Show PETROLEUA SHARES DOMINATE TRADING ON STOCK MARKET Oil Securities Assume Extravagant Proportions; General List Is Strong During Day's Session. MW TOIcE, May S- Petroleum t. hares dominated today'B trading t- a greater eitent than at any time iu the history of tbe stock i exchange, their movements a sii ming extravagant extrava-gant . proportions acl Lauaioi,' fcoiau uiiigiunyi. in con.st-rvy.ti ve cirfles. Alniut as a wliote. however, t li market was str-jug, bhi i 'pings r;'-ei iut; furtbi-r bultisli a t-tt-ntiuo with a score of pt-ace iu-lus' rials, mostly at substantial gains, winle a p.-versal of lutt.Tttit was noted in all clas.-'s of railh. Tin; furrher rise, wl'icn mark.-.l the nventy-first nventy-first hiiceeoivc full -saion nf ( nir.u-t ion d well in excess of I.OOu.O'hJ hhart-s. al.ii lifted uvt-r- i age prices of leading industrials to maxiiuuins for almost throe yearri, while rails, as a group were, at tlie year's b'-st. In several noteworthy Instani-Or'. bucli a? Texas Tex-as company, Atlantic Ciilf, American Woolt-n and Sinclair Oil, ab.-'dute hit,'h records wkp establie-lied. Among secondary -rails today's Quotations constituted maximum quotations for in? to fifteen years. Texas company was again the Etar performer, perform-er, adding 'Ju-;s points to yesterday's 10-point gain at L'O'J"; Atlantic Gulf rose U American Ameri-can Woolen 7!i and Texas & Pacific 7J4- Ha rrett companv, Cuban American Sugar. Meiieau Petroleum. Assoeiatfd Oil. Fan-Araeri-j can Petroleum. General Motors, Industrial Al-cohnl. Al-cohnl. Marines and American International em- 1 bri'Cd ihf other strong issues at extreme gains uf - to 'J points, but t inted States Steel re-laiued re-laiued barelv a point of its 'J.j -point rise to HH. its tr.p price since the elimination of t'e ' xtra dindt-nd. Sales auicunted lo 1.775,000 i siiari's, a new record for acthity this year. Marine and tractlou bonds were strong, witu Fr-neli municipal,, tlie general linr. including I Ib.-rty i-ues. manifesting only moderate ftrm-nV ftrm-nV on small d-:i lines. T'Mal sales (par raluM aggregated $1.3.00U. Old United States -a rusr- per cent ou call. |