Show COMBINE STORIES BOLSTER PRICES February Opens With Rising Stocks on onNi Y on N Ni Y Exchange Exchange- NEW YORI YORK Feb l- l 1 I DY By The pres Press Rising price tendencies ushered In the tile new month on the tha New ew York Block ex cx exchange change While Whilo there was a dIpo illio dispo-illio 0 itlo non the part of ot some largo larlo rader to deter defer operations pend ins ing the publication of ot the llIe gure on ers brokers lOAns benz loan bullish demon demon- ration demon con con- conducted conducted aggressively were ducted In n come lome of ot the motors based on reports of or unusually heavy Jan Jn January Jan January uary sales zales of ot many ot of th the large Speculative e Imag- Imag Imag also aso was vas fired by rumors combines ot of huge food tood And other widespread In In- In circles Tn rn banking banIn tr AA attached A to to the upward Howard limb of ot sterling exchange cables at U 4 86 56 9 16 th highest prIce since the war ar and only 16 1 1 t r a below gold parity South Po to Rican mean sugar jumped 6 DotTy Doln to HO a new peak on rUe FU- ru rumor extra exita dividend the mor mor- of an sn t n Western Sugar American Snuff ramous Famous PIs Placers ers Scars Sears Roe Roe- Roe Roe-nu flu uk k ic Railway Steel Spring and P Ca Gas all sold 3 to 4 poInts la last t weeks week's closing quota quotations lIou- lIou De DC be strength of high h priced bI Influence In HI aLl ir s II exerted a big bil topping speculative selling when he renewal reneal rate on call loans was d to 4 per cent nt with sub sub- sub quent loan loans at 5 S per cent Du DuPont DuPont Pont climbed 6 64 points Brook Brooklyn n edison dison 5 51 Nash ash Motors S Ii Detroit Edison and South Porto Porte Rican Su- Su So Su-sar Su ar 2 3 4 and General General- Motors S hes peake jt Ohio was an out out- outstanding out outstanding standing weak feature future losing 2 points MERGER fERGER HELPS PRICES Mixed price roO marked he resumption of ot stock oday but the main mate trend of or the market markel was higher Initial buying activity centered largely largey In the th tocks of ot companion In which mer met merger ger er developments are understood 1 to be pending such as S Ce- Ce eal Ce-eal eal California Petroleum and andWard andWard andWard Ward Baking B High lUgh grade trade rails uch as Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific also ere were were-In In demand With the recognized leaders may may- movIng maying moving ing sluggishly Interest In the early dealings wax as a confined to rallies In several specialties Prospects for tor e huge combinations ot oC food etim stimulated buying or of hese securities Ward Vard EakIn Baking D 13 to announcement ment iliaC ho Ward nd Interests had forme formed a food products corpor corpor- corporation corporation while Cal California Packing and ane Cereal which have havo been In mer which moved up lo to 3 points Other strong spots Allied Chemical Gold Dust Du Dm Pont Font Fa- Fa Famous Fa Fa inous Players International Paper Paper and American Zinc preferred with Ith the Wabash Issue Issues joining the ad advance vance anc ln ln In the rails Reactionary tend tendencies hon however ver cropped out In Radio ton American Woolen Reining ton Typewriter and Fiske Jo RUbber A rise In sterling sterling- to H th the highest demand rate since the war featured early trading In the the for for- for foreign eign aign exchanges CALL JL lOMY ft 1 The cl closing was US Irregular Sell Sell- S II- II ll 11 LJ pressure develop 1 in th hour ir coincident with tn tl calling calling cf ct bank loans Ions an at ar- arance ai- ai ance in III call money h t IT St 5 i per tent ent United StAtes Slates Stan Steel tel fel ba bat t a a point ani losses loa of one to bree ree points GeneI I Sear Sears iSears Roebuck It Sheffield Steel and e Fruit Oil sto stocks stok however responded toan o oan oan an In mid-continent mid cruce cruca ant an I various arlous hal hel or extended their gains under the haders 1 p of the the- foot food issues Total sales fales 1 15 O l thi-cs thi c |