Show Stock Market Lags in One of Smallest Turnovers Since 1916 MINOR DECLINES SHOW AT CLO CLOSE ClOS By Dy VICTOR EU EUBANK I Associated lre Press s Financial Edit Editor 1 NEW YORK May 19 and sellers rea reached hed a virtual A lock in Mondays Monday's s stock martS dea market leading issues shifted from a d of the price fence one e Ild to the e nth oth other i frequent intervals l Occasional l fractions were J J on a few steels oils tacked coppers specialities but most of these d a d got up enough to nev r to amount t to any thing Minor declines ful at the close were e Transfers of around shares were one of the turnovers for a full session 1916 Steels Get Aid Steels were aided by a ju Inn jump this weeks week's estimated W II mill ope opera to a new the standpoint of record actual peak tonS fr f i output Another tonnage advance g In n tt the crude petroleum price heir helped oils Rising demand for l tt the brought in mild bidding f cop coPPer for r d metal shares Rails Ralls kept loW losses fractions to o generally d ing agreement of the h di to ask the roads for a 3 30 per c cent wage boost which would lift lit S rier costs by about al Boardrooms viewed with I misgiving the action of the tr tre SOh lorne ury in urging congress to sW the excess profits ad tax base In add Scant optimism w was S crated by the war news Hopeful g though were prospects for Jg pe e in the coal mining dispute i Advancing Stocks I 1 Among stocks doing fairly vin wen most of the time were U U. s S. S st Steel i Bethlehem Youngstown She ste t Standard Oil N. N J JI J. Texas corPoration S cork corPo- ration Standard Oil of CalifornI Anaconda Ken n e 0 t 1 Phe Dodge General Motors and United Aircraft In the lagging class Eal I were East Eart man Kodak N. N Y Central South SoS em ern Pacific Public Service of ot N N. J. J Union Carbide and America Telephone n Supported in the curb were Ca a lamba Sugar American Gas cr ere Cre ole Petroleum N. N J. J Zinc and S Sun Si- n ray Oil I |