Show MARKET DULL TRADERS DOZE DOlE Volume Lightest in Decade Stock Prices es Show Little Change t By ELMER C. C United Press Financial Editor NEW YORK Aug Sales 29 Sales on the New v York stock exchange Monday totaled approximately shares sharn he the smallest hour five session since torch March 29 1923 when the total was shares This compared with shares Friday Curb sales approximated shares against es shares Friday Trading was a typical the before war session volume was the lightest In more thana dec ide ade Price movements were nil small gains offsetting equally small losses Board rooms were deserted Floor traders spent three hours for lunch Those who remained played checkers In n the smoking room back of the trading floor Those on the floor together to to- Aether gether with the brokers did a few few- hundred shares of business Some did nothing at all 4 Little Interest Shown Back in the days before the war war- when calf's liver was waslO 10 cents a pound and stock business could be done ona on ona a correspondingly low overhead brakers bro bra kers made money with a day like t this his one In Irs the present markets with costs cost high it is estimated that at least a share million turnover is is needed for the financial community to break even An idea of the lethargy can be seen in the list of active stocks up to 2 p. p m. m International Nickel had bad top place in that group with a total turnover turn turn- over of only shares General Motors was next with U. U S. S Steel third with shares and Chrysler and Radio corporation tied for fourth place with shares Opening prices were practically un changed Only a few net changes ex exceeded the smallest unit of 1 tion eighth tion one eighth point A few issues made wider swings later in the day Du Pont was one of them It touched DO 00 for a gain of U points when hen its directors declared an extra dividend of 50 cents thus passing parsing on to stockholders stock stock- holders the extra dividend from General Gen Gels oral eral Motors corporation Du Pont holds about as many shares of General Gen Gen- oral eral Motors as it has shares ing Steel Steady to o Firm Steel shares were steady to firm until the American Iron and Steel Institute In announced the rate of oL steel operations at per pez cent a new low for forthe the year U. U US U.S. S. S Steel common dipped fractionally and Bethlehem y a point American Agricultural Chemical had the distinction in the leading is issues issues is- is sues of making a new 1934 high It sold at 38 up V s but subsequently lost most of the gain Minor advances ad vances were noted in U. U S. S Smelting Southern Haven Baven Cerro De Do Pasco American Telephone and a few few- others Building Issues were about un unchanged unchanged un- un changed as were oils utilities utilities' and motors Mercantile issues fluctuated narrowly Amusements resisted s sell oiling oil oil- ing on the report of increased attendance attendance at at- at motion picture theaters Sears Roebuck was steadied by its sales and earnings report for the 24 weeks ended July 16 It showed Income in income In- In come of against in irs the corresponding period of 1933 Sales were up 29 per cent |