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Show CMcag flotations CHICAGO, March 2S. Corn hardened harden-ed in value today as a result mainly of assumed improvement in the military situation. Notice was also taken of reports showing increased use of corn by flour millers. Besides, receipts here continued relatively small. Opening prices, which varied from a shade off to a like advance with May $1.26i to 1.26, were followed by quotations that average slightly above yesterday's finish. Oats responded to active buying for the seaboard. Export buyers appeared to have raised their bids. After opening open-ing unchanged to ic higher with May 87 to 87, the market scored some additional gain. Declines in the value of hogs pulled down provisions. Selling was not aggressive ag-gressive but support was lacking. The corn close was steady at a not decline of a shade with May $1.264. Weakness in provisions was Increased In-creased later by assertions that warehouse ware-house stocks were unusually heavy and were in need of an outlet. CHICAGO QUOTATIONS. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn May 1.2711 1.26 1.26 1.261! Oats-March Oats-March 92 .92 .924 May .S7 .S7 .86 .86 Pork "May .... 48.50 5S.40 48.40 Lard May 26.25 26.27 26.07 26.07 July 26.27 26.12 26.12 Ribs-May Ribs-May 24.95 24.97 24l77 24.77 July 25.37 25.37 25.15 25.15 NEW YORK STOCK LIST. American Beet Sugar 76M. American Can 40 American Car & Foundry 77 American Locomotive 61 American Smelting fc Refining . . 774 American Sugar Refining 101 Anaconda Copper 62 Atchison 83 Baldwin Locomotive 75 Baltimore & Ohio 52 Bethlehem Steel "B" 78 Canadian Pacific 138 Central Leather 634 Chesapeake & Ohio 56 Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul 40 Chicago, R. I. &. Pac. Ry 19 Chino Copper 14 Colorado Fuel & Iron 37 Columbia Gas and Electric 30, Corn Products 35 Crucible Steel 62 Cuba Cane Sugar 29 Eric 15 General Motors 115 Great Northern Pfd 94 Great Northern Ore Ctfs 26 Inspiration Copper 45 Int. Mer. Marine pfd 91 Kennecott Copper' 30 Louisvillo & Nashville . . 113 Maxwell Motor .Co 26 Mexican Petroleum 92 14 Miami Copper 30 Midvale Steel 44 Missouri Pacific 21 Nevada Copper 18 New York Central 69 Norfolk and Western 1044 Northern Pacific 85 Ohio Cities Gas 36 Pennsylvania 44 Pittsburgh Coal 53 Ray Consolidated Copper 22 Reading . 80 Republic Iron & Steel 7S3t Sinclair Oil 29 Southern Pacific S3 Southern Railway 22 Studebaker Co 404 Tennessee Copper 1G4. Texas Co 144 Tobacco Products 49 Union Pacific 1194 United Cigar Stores S54 U. S. Industrial Alcohol 123 U. S. Rubber 55 " United States Steel S9 Utah Copper 7S Wabash Pfd. "A" 41 Westinghouse Electric 40 Willys-Overland 17 American Tel. & Tel 1004 Bid. Illinois Central 94 American Zinc, Lead and Sm. . . 12 Butte and Superior 18 Cala. Petroleum 15 Montana Power 66 Shattuck Arizona 16 American Tobacco 152 General Electric 137 Atlantic Gulf & W. 1 106 |