Show WAl WALL STREET IS IRREGULAR Bears and Bulls Buls Tilt Tit for Honors I Markets Market at a Glance NEW EW YORK ORK Stocks Irregular merger rails rail lai raU rally three to eleven oleve points Joint Bonds Bonda steady rail Jai issue SU extend I reco er recovery Fo Foreign exchanges mixed mie Norwegian Nor or lor- lor kroner krone roner Cotton ton easier bearish government carry over oer figures gures Sugar lower Jower trade selling Co Coffe barely burly steady disappoint disappoint- log Ing spot apet demand CHICAGO C GO Wheat barely steady favorable crop outlook log s. Corn r CI easy I larger country cOUtry offer offer- ofer- ofer Cattle Catlie steady good demand for tor choice grades Stage lines lower loner Ho o.- o. 1 NEW W YORK TORK TORI March 5 8 CAP AP AP Power ful ul financial for forces s working for higher 1 prices encouraged by the rapid reco recovery ry yesterday star started ed to tD bid up p prices again ain today but ut encountered strong resistance fr from m bear beRr traders who made rade sporadic n assaults on supposedly vulnerable issues As A result the market presented al alternating al- al periods tut of heaviness ss and strength Unusually heavy buying x of Dr f the U railroad shares started prices upward again In the tie early arly afternoon Nickel Plate being pushed up ten And lAnd three three- quarter points Atlantic Coast Line six and ond Chesapeake Ohio four Opening gains of one to nearly nine point points In Inmany Inmany Inmany many Issues were ere reduced or canceled when heavy selling took place In Jn the meters torI public utilities and ad high priced Industrial specialties Several high grade rade hores shores shares yielded A point or two to be be- be low lov last nights night's quotations while hie United States Cast Iron Pipe was driven down nine and ono one points point Cushmans Bakery six and Pullman four foul before the tid of selling In those issues was stemmed stemmed Strong Stong supporting orders order were again supplied with the result resul that United States Steel common which had ad been hammered vY do to 13 quickly napped buck back to around and an McCrory Mc- Mc 10 McCrory Crory Stores B tl Wiles Loose Biscuit anti And Con Commercial Solvents Solvent nd A Au A and ana B were lifted and one half to five points above yesterdays yesterday's final quotations Trading wa WIS sa not In a as Al large lare volume as a. either yesterday or the tIle day before tola sale in 1 the first firt three hours hour fallIng falIni fall fall- fal- fal Ini ing short shor of shares share as against in the same period on Wednes Wednes- say day ay The Tile closing was oat 1 0 Irregular The prow grow V ro Ing strength of the merger rail shares share acted as al a buffer against another On Onslaught on- on slaught cf ct selling aching In the late trading whIrl which carried American Can back to against Its It opening of 31 baet and nd Foundation company down to 1121 from Is Its earlY eany high of 11 Pere spurred purred on by favorable dividend end pros pros- pens mounted five rice Rod end half one points point with Ith West IVest Virginia and Lackawanna anna selling three to four r fO points higher Total sales approximated shares |