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Show 'WORLD'S HEffj NEW YORK, April 1 7 A confusion of buying and selling orders was responsible re-sponsible for the uncertain trend of j the stock market in the first half hour, of today's training. American international, inter-national, Hide and Leather preferred, i Tobacco Prudurt- and United Cigars; were the hei" features of strenglh.j with Baldwin Locomotive and some of the petroleums. United Slates Steel soon cancelled Its very moderate risoj and Rethlehem and Crucible Steels also al-so yielded to prpssur as well as Gen-' eral Motors, Industrial Alcohol and! Texas company. Southern Paclfio wosl the only railway Issue to show any degree of strength. Shippings, leathers and food shares were the chief features of the forenoon, fore-noon, which failed to manifest the usual usu-al pre-hollday selling pressure. Marine Mar-ine preferred and American International Interna-tional gained 1 to 1'2 and Atlantic Gulf rallied an extreme of lour points. Hide and Leather preferred rose ;:' . and United States Food Products, Cotton Cot-ton Oil and Industrial Alcohol ad vanced IVi to 3 points. Stools ;nd equipments strengthened on reports that President Wilson had taken up the question of prices, but coppers were indifferent to another cut by the selling agencies. Donds were irregular on limited dealings. |