Show SHARP SELL-OFF SELL HITS BIG BOARD Leading Equities Lose From FromI 1 I to to- 3 Points on News From Washington NEW YORK March 7 ff The JP-The The stock market suffered a sharp V sell off late ate Wednesday after moving oving dully in inthe inthe the he early proceedings The reaction word from Washington that General Johnson planned to curtail N R H A code working hours through an executive order Leading equities lost last 1 to 3 or more points The close was was was' heavy Transfers approximated shares The ticker tape got several minutes behind in the selling flurry although h hit it t bar barely l moved in hi the morning All categories participated in the decline I There were a few brief rallies but they were feeble Shares of United States Smelting dropped more than 5 points while losers of or 2 to around 3 included United Unit Unil ed States Steel American Can American Amer ican Tobacco B B. B Auburn Case Chrysler Chrys ler Du Pont Union Pacific Liggett Myers B. B Santa Fe Westinghouse American Smelting Allied Chemical Douglas Aircraft and Johns Such equities as American Telephone General Motors Consolidated Gas Montgomery Ward Now New York Central and United Aircraft were down about a point each |