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Show SELLERS HURT STOCKPRICES Profit Talcing Active in Wall Street Niw TORK. Irpt I1A Urc rlum f Mlllns ordar xalii cut erla lilnilTalu la totfay'i Mock Krkt. Inf1ur tarcoly br tha uafararabl laiior of KuroBran Mm aa4 loao ouprMlii r porta from tha alaal luduatrr. rrafaaalonal lrlan war atllva an th aalllna; aWa and koaTy profit taklna aala vara aaala la avManca. Balaa aa pro it ma ted l,0MOt aharea Bet) Ins waa renewed at tha opn-Intr opn-Intr of today's slock market with soma of tha augers and law pbjred oils dlplaylnr vonapteuoua beavl neaa. Marland dropped 1 l-l poiata to a new low prlee for the year at 14 1-4 and America Buffer and .t'uha Cane Sugar preferred wert dowa a point. Renin; was of a rather varied character durlnp; the firet half hour with member of nearly all of the aetlva speculative p roups euffrln In the decline. Loaa la aeveral In-tancoa In-tancoa ranted from 1 to 1 point imoiic th Industrials and a roc tallica tal-lica withv aeveral railroad shares ex-nlbltlriff ex-nlbltlriff heavlneaa. Buying ordera were eneountored for some, eh area at the lower-levela Tu Pont, Foundation Founda-tion Company and Jones Pro there Tea scoring; advance af about a point each. Fore lea a&chanfa openr-d lower. t'nfavorntol forelpra political news InrfudlntT a flpantnh revolt and continued con-tinued lark of aareement on the Italian-Greek eontrovorey Influenced further eelllnc for both accounts durlnp; the first hoar today with near operators taking; full advantage of the reported tinwlnf down In th ateel Industry. Bteel shares, however, how-ever, were no heavier than tother popular stocks and V. ft. ftteet met support at ItT-S. Fractional ad-vancee ad-vancee occurred at th start of the second hour, but the ffeneral I let again turned heavy toward noon and prices continued downward with the ateel shares being; offered freely. Call money opened at a per cent. Failure of material aupport to develop de-velop for th Independent at eel, stocks which wera carried down 1 to 4 points In th aftomoon. with Gulf States Steal showing the extreme ex-treme drop, caused the general (let to recede further. Soma of th dividend divi-dend paying rallroada aad high priced apaclaltlea brok aharply. America. Tobacco loet 4 points and Delaware at Lackawanna I 1-1. Tha cloalng waa weak. Realstane power seemed to diminteh steadily In th laat hour, United States Hteei aggd to tf-l before stiffening stiff-ening and several other loaders site hardened atlahtly. but at tha end the aene rat trend was agala down ward. j |