Show GENERAL FIRMING SHOWN BY BONDS NEW YORK June 1 P W The JP-The The The bond market improved its position Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day after an uncertain beginning Absorption Absorption Ab Ab- sorption of ot early selling in secondary rails and other sem issues cleared th the way for a general firm ing V Utility and industrial classifications shared in iu the improvement and numerous numerous nu nu- nu gains running from fractions to a point were recorded in these divisions divisions' divi The second rate rails raUs were led Jed by Eric Erie which added three points to their recent gain Less substantial advances were shown in some obligations obligations obliga obliga- of the Nickel Plate Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania New York ork Central Baltimore 1 Ohio and Northwestern Industrial bonds as a group had a fair majority of gains particularly in copper steel and miscellaneous divi Utility loans were steady teady U. U S. S governments continued to move within a small range casing easing slightly in the late trading Irregularity Irregularity larity in the foreign group was accentuated accentuated by sharp declines in some of the French and South American governments governments governments gov gov- and brisk advances in Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese issues |