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Show STOCK MARKET LEADERS PLOD ALONG IN DULL TRAD lu SHARES I'LIUr TO LEAVE r,UT By VICTOS EUBANK Am rial ad Free iTanolal Urees-NEW Urees-NEW YORK. Feb. 1 The stock market pointed this way and thai way Thursday and ended with Indifferent nods In varying directions. direc-tions. . It was the seventh eonseeutre session In which the list ha been unable to dlmb out of the rut. A few ' rubbers, coppere, ah crafts, rails and speetaltlea ian aged to tack en modest advance at one time or another, but most steed, motors, mall orders and utilities lingered m minus terrb lory the greater part of the day. Dealings were Ineonsequentlal throughout and alight declines and gains were wH scattered at the eloae. Transfen were lest than 600,000 shares. News Uninspiring . . Newt of the European war, potty Oca and business was wuniplxing marketwlse, brokers said. The do mestie copper price was shaded by produotra, Goodrich raised, same tire prices and a further drea In steel mill aperaUoM was tn-dlcaud. Stock attracting support to eluded Ooodyear. U. . Rubber, Goodrich, Continental Motors, Stude baker, Glenn Martla, Lort, Loew't, Intai-netlonal Paper,' Anaconda, Ana-conda, Phelps Dodge, Wheeling Steel, Santa T. Great Northern and Standard Oil ef N. J. tracking rising power were TJ. S. Steel, General Motors, Seera Roe buck, Montgomery Ward, Douglas Aircraft,' American Can, Du Pont, Public Service ef N. J. and John. ManvlUe. Beatt Uet Cawvea Bonds and commodities were uneven. un-even. Wheat at Chicago was eft He to 7 -8c a butheL and corn down T-So to lUe. Cotton, near the finish, was up $fl to 90s bale, Foreign securities markets were Inclined to Improve. Up In the curb were Brewster Aeronautical, Harden Chemical, Luke Shore and Kleotrle Bond and Share. Lagging were Consolidated Mining and Interstate Hosiery. Rails, which have been acting better -than most other stock department de-partment the majority failed te participate In the fall upsurge had the benefit ef a contra-seasonal advance la - laat week'a (aright feedings on ton ef the flow of revenue statements revealing re-vealing strengthened Ineoraea Jar the principal eexrleaa, . . -mee Out. Xetei ' Announcement of cuts In crude petroleum prices by the Standard Oil of California was considered by holrert of ell haras. It was thought Ukely other produoart soon would meet the reduction, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit preferred touehe, a new 19d-t0 peak, apparently buoyed by re porta New Tork City authorities were hastening plans tor unification unifica-tion of metropolitan traction prop- . erties. Heavy trading volume in low-priced low-priced motors for several days was attributed partly to the theory these 00m puilet would be la line for overflow business from a via-tlon via-tlon engine manufacturers. Word that aircraft makers ware work. Ing with governmental authorities in coordinating machine tool purchases pur-chases as a means of stepping up warp lane output aided shares la ' the flying division. |