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Show Stocks Advance Along Narrow Front, Resist Scattered SgSEeq ISSUES SLUMP SOME ATCLOSE By VICTOB EUBANK Asasntated Prase FnaaaeAU Editor NEW YORK, reb. 31 Stocka advanced along a narrow front today to-day and held their ground tenaciously tena-ciously despite scattered selling re-rays. re-rays. Prlcae were below then? 'best toward the close, but the day's average appeared to have erased most of the prevloua session's losses. Transfers were about 550,- 000 aharea. Chief gainers were the alrerafta, whose early morning rise waa supported sup-ported through the rest of the day by steels, motors and chemicals. Reports of enlarged manufacturing manufac-turing plana In the aviation Industry Indus-try to handle the present backlog of airplane and engine orders, as well aa constantly Increasing new orders, were the Inspiration for the alrerafta leadership, -ateesj wets benefited by the steel Industry's reports of new orders or-ders and advancing automobile business. Still, however, the exchange ex-change remained a typically "traders' market." Among the beat In the upswing were Douglas, Martin, U. S. Steel, Bethlehem, General Motors, Chrysler, Chrys-ler, American Telephone, DuPont, Allied Chemical, Eastman, Union Carbide and Anaconda. Setting new year's highs were Loft, Brooklyn Brook-lyn and Queens Transit preferred and Interborough Rapid Transit. Paria and London markets did better. Amsterdam waa uneven. Commodities made fairly good (Ins. Wheat at Chicago climbed 1 U to 1 74 cents a bushel and corn was to e higher. Cdtton wss 10 cents a bale higher to cants lower. |