Defense Stocks Spurt In Generally Firm List
| NEW YORK, Jan. 26ÛÓ j For the first time in almost three weeks, all the major stock market indicators rose today, although some had to hold on by their fingernails at the close.</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average, recording its best mark when the session was 30 minutes old, supped through most of the session and closed with a gain of 0.81 point at</br></br>Standard & PoorÛªs 500-stock composite was ahead 0.15 point to 93.45 and the New York Stock Exchange index added 0.10 point to 52.45.</br></br>Volume dropped sharply from the pace on Thursday, when traders were jolted by Pi'esident JohnsonÛªs decision to call nearly 15,000 reserves to active duty. There were 9.99 million shares changing hands today, the smallest total in this first week of shortened sessions, down from 12.41 million in the previous session.</br></br>Advancing stocks led declines, for the first time in six sessions, by 755 to 494. On Thursday, with all three major averages going up, there were 762 losers and 493 winners. New highs rose to 50 from 31 and new lows fell to 10 from '31.