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Show CORN PIES AVERAGE mm e CHICAGO, Aug. 12. Corn averaged lower in price today and gave evidence tliat the buying buy-ing side of the market was unpopular aa a result largely of continued agitation against high ecat of living. Prices closed unsettled, at lc net decline to -c advance, with September Sep-tember SI. 01 to Si. 914 and December $1.5 2 'a 1.53. Oatu finished -c To lc up, and provisions provi-sions varying fr.-m 55c "lcHne to a rise of 5c. Absence of demand rather than any aggressive aggres-sive disposition to soil cLaracteriz.-d th-- -om market. I?vtloyments in the nation-wide effort ef-fort to reduce the outlay fr ffX'd and for like personal necessities -olitain-d much mon g"n-ornl g"n-ornl notire from the nm k.rUy of traders than was ttw case with nny other factor, but aft'-r v.-s' erday's persistent hamraeriiig down "f corn values b- ars w. re Incline. 1 to be cautions. On thf otlit-r hand railroad dif f i-uitif-s had a discouraging influence on buyers except on siiors in th Sfpt--mher delivery. !'.'?in(-s in tha". ni'iuth. huu-ver. was not tit. -naive and wht-n the licm--diate wants of shorts had bfrn r--lievcd S-!'--irber, too, lost nearly all appearari'.-e of sire up: n. S-iilw-ard buying it-odt-d to lift the oats market. I l'r -visions were d';'.! End wak f"r the tame I reasons as orn. Advaae-s In the h"; market mar-ket s-emed to afford no stimulus. |