Show ADING ADING STOCKS CLING DOGGEDLY TO FRACTIONAL t lAINS STEEL SHARES LEAD ADVANCE By B VICTOR VICOR EUBANK Associated Press Financial Editor NEW YORK YORK Feb 14 14 I Leading shares held doggedly to small maU mal gains gain in Mondays Monday's Mondays stock market market with w advances advances advances ad ad- vances measured by fractions to a point or a bit more Steel issues issue led an early rally raly baited alted haled by profit selling around the te noon oon hour Lter Later buying bUng restored prices pries rices to a little under their best bestor bet the for or day Oils Ol and coppers were active but advances in these tee divisions division were generally narrow A few specialties picked licked up fair air gains on relatively small mall smal volume Traders in the tho absence o of news Indicating any definite trend of the industrial outlook were content to toland stand land aside The pace was w slow Ilow throughout after the first hour and the he ticker was was motionless for moments moments mo mo- ments at a time a shares hares Transfers approximated 00 Commodities Mixed The Te major commodities were ere mixed Wheat at Chicago finished unchanged to 8 3 of a cent a bushel bushe higher and corn was wa unchanged to t 8 3 8 of a cent lower Bonds inclined upward with wih the secondary rail rl liens lens in the van lens U. U S. S Steel Stee was the days day dy market leader with a boost boot after various arious fluctuations of about a point American Telephone an and Chrysler Crysler likewise were in demand at Other gainers were Bethlehem Betlehem U. U S. S Rubber Rubbe Sears Roebuck Roebuck In In- Harvester Oliver Olver Farm Far Equipment Boeing Boing St St. St Joseph Lead Lad American Smelting American Can Cn Westinghouse Electric Du flu Pont Standard Oil Oi of New Jersey Santa SantaFe Fe Chesapeake Ohio Air Ar Re Re- duclon Union Carbide Allis Chalmers Chal Ca- Ca Camer mers mer Johns Manville Johns Philip Moris MorrL Mor Mor- rL is and Brooklyn Manhattan Trans Tran- Tran s sit itIn it In a 8 narrow area were General Motors Goodyear Anaconda Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn- Penn sylvania Railroad Electric Power Light Light United Aircraft Aircraft J. J L 1 Case Ce and nd Texas Corporation Eyes on Washington Of Ot Interest was the opening at Washington of hearings on the re request request request re- re quest for communications companies companies com corn for or an increase in telegraph rates rate There was wa little lle effect marketwise mar- mar however Much attention was paid to a a con conference conference con Mor- Mor ference between Secretary Chairman Eccles of at the federal reserve board and treasury officials with wih some speculation as asto asto a to a possible further tion ton of the inactive gold fund Followers of motor shares found little ittle heartening in the te report of ot R. R L. L Polk Co Indicating that while January Januar sales sale of passenger cars totaled against in December they were 41 per cent under those thoe for the first firt month mont of 1937 Talk of constituting a atlon tatton board to supervise rehabilitation tation of ot the railroads stimulated some interest In the carriers It I was wa noted again that most Wall WaIf Street analysts analyst held the belief belef the Interstate interstate Inter inter- state stale commerce commission soon Mon would award the roads road some form orni orm of general rate rato increase Brokers said there tere was little buying buying buy buy- ing on ort balance from abroad abroad but that volume was light Foreign markets were Irregular |