Show II WALL STREET STREET I IBy By Associated Press Pres NEW YORK March 26 Heavy Heavy buying of Liberty bonds bond especially the second fours at an extreme advance of a a half hal of 1 per cent was as the outstanding feak feature fea fea- ture of today's early a y operations r on the stock k exchange The dock list as a aO whole vh reflected the feeling of ot quiet confidence prevailing In high financial quarters Prices were r slightly sightly irregular but hut fractional fractional frac frac- reversals reversal In some ome of t the e more ImF important im irn tona Issues were soon retrieved S Ship Ship- te l pings F especially marine a preferred e were active and strong United States Slates Steel wati waS almost the only leader to show marked pressure NEW YORK March 26 The The insatiable ble demand for Liberty bonds all al of ot which extended their gains of the mornIng morning morn- morn Ing imparted additional firmness to stock Rails Rals of the better beter class were 1 to 2 points higher but motors and Utilities uti- uti ties reacted tes The market was largely Influenced during the morning moring by tho enormous absorption of Liberty bonds and the reassuring reassuring reas reas- suring news from abroad and Investment rails rais contributed to the general general gen gen- eral rally raly Gains in marines and Atlantic Atan- Atan Atlan tic Gulf ranged from 1 to 1 points and andIn andIn andin In tc rails the advance extended from large fractions rais to 1 points A block blok of 1000 par value Liberty second fours changed hands at 97 97 Fluctuations In that issue varied from to First fours sold at to and from to |