Show SWIFT swIT ou CLIMB IN STOCKS HALTED 1 Early Morning Gains of 1 to 7 Canceled by Profit Profit- Taking Profit Taking By fly y Associated Pr lr j NEW YORK Feb 19 A 19 A swiftly moving carl early advance in stocks was largely canceled b by subsequent profit prof prof- it taking t toda today Opening gains gams oi of 1 1 to 7 made while shorts were stampeding to cover on the thc stock exchanges exchange's rule affecting affecting affecting af af- af- af borrowed shares brought a flood of profit taking The Thc market well withstood such sales until the thc thelast thelast last ast half hour when pressure became more pronounced and what was left of the thc rise dwindled rapidly Some stocks closed lower but on the he whole the market finished irregularly arly higher Transactions approximated mated shares Numerous net were fractional frac- frac rac- rac ional United States Steel closed at up 1 SI against its high of American Telephone which had risen to finished at or 75 cents lower Union Pa Pacific yielded all but 50 cents of a 5 advance the final quotation being 89 Santa Fe Fc Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road which had touched end ended d the cia day clay at 87 up 50 cents Auburn Auto turned a advance into a anet anet anet net loss of or Eastman Kodak's 7 improvement was cut to net closing at 80 American Can lost nearl nearly half of ot a arise arise arise rise of ol Westinghouse Electric National Biscuit Woolworth Bethlehem Steel and md Southern Pacific were up about 25 to 50 cents net General Electric and ind New York Central closed with small losses losses |