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Show RELAPSE TOPPLES STOCKS FRACTIONS TO 2 ''.PQIWVG late sell... 1 eri;:gsslu:.:? By VICTOR EUBANK ssrsjtrl Frill TTt M Edit? NEW YORK. Nov. 9-rA lat selling sell-ing wave swept over the stock market mar-ket Thursday and toppled prices fractions to mors than 3 point The drive started after an early attempt at a rally bogged down, A sale of 14,500 share of the re cent l)i buoyant Curtiss-Wrlght around 2 B. m. brought a flood of offering In other so-called so-called war stocks and touched off numerous stop-loss orders la vulnerable vul-nerable Issues. Dumping was so Insistent for a while that the ticker Up fell few minute behind floor transaction. transac-tion. A little support thea arrived ar-rived and extreme decline were reduced in most Instances at the close. Dealings slackened appreciably appre-ciably on the comeback. Transfers, Trans-fers, sluggish during the greater part of the session, picked up sufficiently suf-ficiently In the final hour to out the volume In the neighborhood of 1,000,000 share. Offer N EjepkaauaUan . Broker could point to ns out-Unrlini out-Unrlini piece of news to account for the tumble. Seme thourht the fact the lit had been teeterin; on a narrow ledge for the but three of four weeks, with an obvious reluctance re-luctance to put on any real recovery recov-ery ieli, discouraged bullish force enough to bring out liquidation liquida-tion from eepedally tired holders. A In other ea where board rooms were unable to locate a concrete con-crete cause for relapse, rumor were plentiful. Financial quarter were con-fused con-fused by another break In the British Brit-ish pound sterling In term of the dollar, and fear aro In this connection con-nection the Germans may be preparing pre-paring to atart the long-awaited push through Belgium or the Netherlands. Neth-erlands. Actual foreign new, generally, gen-erally, left trading contingent la the dark. Horn New Cheerful ; Bualn happenings at home remained re-mained of a cheerful character, and the inability of the majority of stocks to respond to highly satisfactory satis-factory earning and dividend was said to have don a much to chill buyers as anything else. ' ,In the belated no-dlv were U, S. Steel, Bethlehem, Bears floe-buck. floe-buck. International Harvester, Boeing, Boe-ing, Glenn Martin, CurtlM-Wrlght, S perry, American Smelting, Union Carbide, Santa r. General Elextrl and Caterpillar Tractor. Rttant war TJ. S. Rubber preferred, pre-ferred, Intemtlonl, Mercantile Marina, Araarioan Can and Walworth. Wal-worth. Slipping bl the curb were Lockheed, Lock-heed, Aluminum of America. -aJulf Oil, Jone Laughlin and American Ameri-can Cyan amid "B." Bonds and commodities ynrm mixed. Wheat at Chicago wa off 1)4 to 14 cent a bushel and corn down to ). Cotton, In lat trades, wa up 10 to 60 cent a bale. European market were Irregular, rrwlgfat I.rllngs Drep Official figures Indicating east week's freight loadings were oft a hd more than seasonal war without unsettling repercussion la the carrier group. Pennsylvania wa resistant from the beginning, continuing to reflect this road optimistic dividend booct. V. S. Rubber (hare exhibited morning strength on announcement announce-ment the company had declared a payment of M l share on the S per cent first preferred. Seer Roebuck was In difficult! occasionally ikH withstanding . th concern Thursday reported sale for four week ended November t were up 29.( per cent over pi same 1938 week. While some In Walt street looked for a moderate Induct rial i-eceeion in the forepart of next year, talk of congress lifting th nation's de-fen de-fen budget to around 12.000,-000,000 12.000,-000,000 in 1640 wa aeea a a boir stering influeno. ; Baying rwr Lifted Helpful also wa th dettuctlon by Standard Statistic company that, whil employment and payroll pay-roll are currently 10 per oernt under 1S29, living coats are IS per cent lower, and, conaequently, real buying power now may bo do to rwrxirlovia'maBBaeBaaBaBnaaBBWBesMeneal |