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Show IILLSIET s PRICES SC J? r- . Activity' Increase f Dut Leaders Slump NFW .'YORK Hurt. It Im-ree-,-''. activity In toiler's, mock market attended by Mjir'nc prleea, menv torka yielding 1 (o I o4nta. Efforts ' to axteM yaaterday's rise at the outset out-set vntler the lidmtiip of ih sugar group wm soon abandoned ard whtn Ursa eelUnsr ordera ppar'1 for both account. galea appiroimated Pries changea wera ended at tH opentna; of today's stock market. 1 'nit ad (-Hats eBteel, Baldwin and RttKlehaker, the tteuat leadera, k'I opened fraettonaliv tower, hut th main trans, pevertheieea, apmrtd if ba upward. Jtovtaon lhemlcal advanced ad-vanced I point a. Moat of lha oiia war higher, Houston rtelnf a point. The market eontlnuefi omf'it pott? In (ha early dealings. Of"! buying waa noted In some of the ausar, textile and eoppar shar-s. while the tobaema war beaw. In tematlonal Agricultural prfrri1 dropped polnta and Ktmoui Pis - and Maxwell A 1 aach. Harman rw-Deration rw-Deration ad vancad I potnta, fnin f'ane Kuyar preferred 1 - and Fun., Aleare 1,. Formica ext-hansee or-eni-fl Irreerular, Oerman tnarka dropp.nr lewe than t rant at witt Han, a new low rarord for the vir. considerable short selling anil profit taking rams Into tha mar! during tha morning, after an eariv-perlod eariv-perlod of hesitation, and tha general Hat lost ground. Resistance was fare4 however. In a number of guar. tare, particularly by ah area In the I sugar, merchandising and lw priced rail groupe. several of whlr-h main, talned their galas af a e-Mnt or eo. Haavineaa waa moat marked In the oils, steels, equipments, motors and a few snectaJitea. such as American Can, IHipont and Foundation com , pany. which aold I to I po'nts hetow yeeterday's final figures. Call money 0pned at ft per cent. Hailivtads succumbed mors generally general-ly to the haavineaa elsewhere In t aarly afternoon, Naw York Central. Heading. Chewapeake eV Ohio, fiouth. arn Railway. Teias at pacific ad fr. Paul preferred Voelng anout a pmt aach, Tha TkJi-Amaricaii aharee Staged a aharp rally, but moat otbr Industrtala ana gpecleMUa loet grou" 1. Central l.aathar pnreiTed dropped o points. Tha closing was Weak. HeTMng became be-came more axtenetva lata In ti day when lare;e blocka of usual le-'-a were thrrmn on tha market. ru and Wooi worth dropped 4 potnts a"d many of tha mora aotlva atocaa wars down I to Ijbointa, |