Show f N s PRESS MERGER MERCER I IS COMPLETED Policy of Fewer Newspapers N pers pel'S Carried Out in Pittsburg Pa Aug 2 Four Four of ot I Ithe the live five newspapers In changed ownership Monday and two ho hoot of ot them were Immediately merged into one morning and one afternoon paper pape Papers Involved In the sweeping sw re realignment re- re realignment alignment were tire tm th Pittsburg Post and the Gazette Times morning and the Pittsburg Sun and and Chronicle ChronicleS i S Telegraph Tele ph afternoon The purchasers were William Ran Ran- Randolph Randolph dolph Hearst New York publisher of ofa ofa ofa a chain of ot papers extending from coast to coast cout and Paul Block New NewYork NewYork NewYork York publisher of ot a number of ot pa papers pa- pa papers papers pers including the Newark Star- Star Eagle the Duluth Herald Toledo Blade and the Lancaster Pa New Era Through a series of deals Mr Hearst became the o oer jer of the Sun and the Chronicle Telegraph which he merged as a one afternoon newspaper newspaper per to be known as the Pittsburg Sun- Sun Telegraph At the same time Mr Block lock acquired a the Post and the Ga- Ga Garette rette Times and consolidated them Into one morning paper to be known n as the Post Sun Sun- Sunday Sunday Sunday day editions of both the Post and the Gazette Times will be discontinued All papers Involved In the deal are Bre members of The Associated Press The deal which became effective e Monday Monda reduced the Pittsburg pub pub- publishing publishing publishing lishing field to one morning two aft aft- af L and two Sunday newspapers ne s. s The Pittsburg Press the only other paper In Pittsburg Pitt publishes after after- afternoon afternoon afternoon noon and Sunday editions It Is Iso owned o by the Howard Scripps Inter inter- Interests ests The merger marked tile the mp- mp Jor newspaper consolidation In PIUS PIUS- burg In recent years Several Se ears eara ago the Pittsburg Publishers Publishers' tion acquired the P morning and the Pittsburg Leader afternoon and discontinued both pub pub- |