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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1942 8:45 a. m. to 2:30 p. The Pittsburgh RaUwavg Company will analyze the effect tv- On West Virginia's Oil and Gas Front new nours vp Pupils Begin Staeger Hours Experiment in Three County May Drop Nedlle Island Project U. S.

Refusal To OK Share Of Cost Shifts Birth Certificates Are in Demand TOPEKA, Kan, March SI. (UP) The necessity of possessing a birth certificate to get in. many lines of defense work has swamped the state Board of Health office with applications. Minnie Fleming, registrar, says that she receives requests for about 2,000 birth records daily. lack Choir mpressive In faster Music Colorful Background At Carnegie Hall For Fine Offering By Donald Steinfirst IS loads in these districts and Better Traffic whVh sponsored the experiment study automobile movement.

Paper Suspends In Kansas Cilv KANSAS CITT. March 31 The Kansas City "Journal fi-afternoon daily with a ancestry dating back venrs. nounced suspension of 0- 4 Schools Start Tuesday Approximately 7,000 students in one parochial and two public high schools will start their classes 45 minutes later next Tuesday when in Commissioners Views -it the Catholic and city school sys a 4 tems begin an experiment in the toaay witn its nnai edition stagger system designed to reueve traffic problems. Those schools effected will be Central Cahtolic, South Hills and 1J Published by Harrv crucifix surmounting a stage green ferns and hydrangeas of -pie the color of the Passion, vided the gorgeous setting at rnegie Music Hall last night and associates since las: Schenley High schools, three in stitutions which will serve as en the Bach cnoir, unaer j. ius Baird gave its fifth annual formance of The Passion of Our A $3,000,000 highway and bridge improvement project for Neville Island, planned in connection with the huge war-time expansion of the ship-building plant of the Dravo Corporation, may be drastically curtailed or even abandoned, the county commissioners indicated yesterday.

County Puts Off Action The commissioners postponed action on plans for the improvement after conferring with County Works Director John F. Laboon who reported, after a conference with Government officials in the "Journal" was sold at av.c 'n March 23 to a group of bondh-'-'. ers. It employed apprnxintv.X 300 workers, including 50 cn editorial staff. Officials sail circulation was 70.000.

for reconstructing the Neville Island road and reconstructing the Fleming Park bridge over the P. C. Y. railroad, when Dravo Corporation plant and Federal officials conferred with the commissioners on the improvement. Chairman Kane said the county is willing to pay any reasonable part of the cost of the improvement but declared that the expanded traffic system for the island is mainly a Federal project.

38 "keys" in the study. If the later opening hours prove of value in the areas which they serve, the plan will be extended to other schools next fall. 5 f-iflK 7s-'. 14 '-v tsl In South Hills and Schenley, classes will begin at 9:30 a. m.

A and end at 3:50 p. m. The cur ALL MAKES rent hours are a. m. and While the commissioners took no official action, they indicated 3:05 t.

m. Central Catholic will open its thev would abandon or curtail the Washington, that he was unable to obtain any assurance that the Federal government would share in financing the project. TYPEWRiTtR ci classes at 9:30 a. m. and close some at 3:15 p.

m. and others at improvement if the federal government refuses to share in its iXx 3:30 p. m. The current hours are cost. Tentative plans were prepared Difficulties of operations to keep up the flow of oil and natural gas for the war are illustrated by this photo taken In the hills of West Virginia.

With seven tons of acid in the tank for treating a well to increase its output, the Vandergrift Acidizing Company of Charleston, runs into Russian war front conditions In Wirt county, but gets through with the aid of a tractor. Similar conditions of transportation face all oil country operations during early spring months and tend to slow down production until remote roads are passable again. Tax Appeal Increase Seen Judge Smith Speaks Before Realty Board A large number of tax appeals 'Td According to Saint Matthew i Johann Sebastian Bach. Although it has had literally ldreds of performances through 200-odd years of its existence. Matthew Passion still remains of the most impressive of all ral works, indeed of all music.

mighty Cantor wrought wisely en he wrote the Passions, sically dramatic as he unfolds story of the Betrayal, the icifixion and the Resurrection. ha3 skillfully interspersed in Chorales, some of the loveliest that man has ever heard. 1 to this the novel character the Narrater who tells the tale recitative and you have the damental basis for an evening superb music. is especially suited for per-mance during Holy Week and Bach Choir has done wisely choose it for annually display- the work of the singers. Dr.

rd has again done a fine job training the choir. We woull i mere volume from the male tion, but doubtless Dr. Baird lid also. What with the mili-y demand on the choristers, it i wonder that there is a male tion at all. The soloists were, erally speaking, of high order, -old Haugh was the narrator night, singing the ungrateful with consummate artistry all ning.

There can be nothing re difficult than singing recita- for two hours with never a ody to relieve the strain, yet Haugh sang with freshness spontaneity with his high ir tenor. In dignity of bearing, was the ideal narrator. Faull, soprano, and Sarah lison Logan, alto, were both ressive. Miss Faull sang with sicianly understanding of both and musio and Miss Logan's jlgotha" was delivered in state-tones. dolph Anderson was a successful Jesus and Thomas nsell, singing several baritone was clearly out of his elegit in the "The Descent From Cross" aria.

he choir was excellent in the Vals which were all sung with kity of tone, true pitch and Jl-placed volume and Charles tts again did yeoman work at organ. A small audience i i ii i in i 1. 1 i i i iii iii ri r- jim. ui.i,,i.)k mwm mm wmi www 'v 'i A. vr.

08iSSS v. 4t SgNk-. 4 within the next few years because of adjustments between city and county assessments by the new tax board was predicted by Judge Pay Increase For Filipinos Senate Includes Army And Navy Personnel WASHINGTON. March 31 JP) The Senate extended to Philippine naval personnel today provisions of legislation to equalize rates of pay paid to army defenders of the Philippines. The legislation would authorize the secretary of war to pay members of the Philippine scouts and the Philippine army on the same basis as the United States army.

On motion of Chairman Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts, of the naval committee, the Senate reconsidered the legislation it passed yesterday, amended it to give the same authority to the secretary of the navy, and passed it again. It was sent to the House. Ralph H. Smith at the weekly luncheon of the Pittsburgh Real Estate Board in the William Penn Hotel yesterday. Judge Smith, secretary of the board of judges of common pleas court, pointed out that there was a difference between city and county assessments which would show up in the work of the new board which replaces the former separate city and county boards.

Describing the success of pre trial procedure now being followed in the court, Judge" Smith reported that 74 per cent of the cases now are being settled or dismissed, although the highest percentage previously disposed of without trial during the last 12 years was 44 per cent. Applications For Marriage Licenses Dedo. Edmond Pittsburgh O'Brien, Dorothy Pittsburgh Burda, John Sturgeon Virag, Mary Morgan Eizenhafer. John A McKeesport McDonald, Mary McKeesport Dombrowski. John, Jr Carnegie Hurey, Pearl Carnegie Mazur.

Frank Neville Island Pojnar, Jane Turtle Creek Curcio, Ross Pittsburgh Jarosz, Josephine A Pittsburgh Crawford. John Pittsburgh Student Chorus To Give Concert Two compositions by noted com 3 posers will be heard for the first time in Pittsburgh tomorrow night when the Carnegie Tech student Armv unci Drive Near chorus of 75 voices and Tech 70- piece symphony orchestra present a concert under the direction of Schallus, Dorothy Pittsburgh Goldie, Michael A Bellevue Albinger, Mary Bellevue Baker, Frederick L. Pittsburgh Simon, Annie Pittsburgh lans to raise $101,077.23 for Dr. Frederick Dorian in Carnegie Music Hall. The compositions are Debussy's Dezort, Anthony Woods Neff, Jane Etna James.

Raymond Pittsburgh rarely heard Nocturne No. 3, "Sirenas," and Arnold Schoen- Doran, Dorothy A. O'Brien, James Turtle Creek Bertolo, Rena L. TurUe Creek berer's "Peace on Earth. Dr Dorian, assistant professor of music at Tech, is a former pupil i V.

xV. v. 1 ii I 'V i -f i A A Ax I 17 I ft I i of Schoenberg. (annual Salvation Army Fund Campaign were preyed yesterday to a group of Tsburgh business men at a heon in the Duquesne Club. obert G.

Allen, general chair-jl of the drive, presided at the 'ting. Speakers included Judge iam H. McNaugher, chairman he Pittsburgh Advisory Board, Brigadier William G. Harris, "sional commander of the Salmon Army. ilian Defense Heads 5i Get Parade Orders Cra ton Kaminsky, Morris Bernstein, Junilla.

Lacey. William Gallagher. Mary Beech. Clifford Welch. Eudora Reddick, Jacob Johnson.

Margaret Connors, Thomas Skelly, Theresa A Cole. John Fairless Promises Production Aid NEW YORK, March 31. UP) B. F. Fairless, president of the Sewickley Lee.

Hattie Dailey, William Swanson, Selma SwiSsvale Munha'l .11 zone wardens and their Smith. Victor Pittsburgh Alberth, Grace Wetzler, Peter Pittsburgh Schill, Mariagnes Pittsburgh jytary advisers of the Allegheny nty Council of Civilian De- Btean, Robert C. Cove, W. Va, Mort. Vera Weirton.

W. Va 5e will meet tonight at 8 ock in room 526, City-County Confer, Jay Martin. Ruth 1 if 'v ir-TU'Diimn-imv jirrrinir" iwihimh i i irr'-v t-t ifi itinrirnir unr i iia I- 1 I it in in in fi mi i ii i iii- United States Steel Corporation, announced today action was being taken to set up labor-management production drive committees in plants of its subsidiaries in accordance with suggestions of Donald M. Nelson, head of the War Production Board. "Our policy has been and will continue to be one of full co-operation with both Government and labor to bring about the desired production goal, which we recognize to be of supreme importance to this nation," Fairless said.

dmg. Hatcher. Ollmus I Leffler, chairman, Park Harris, Doris M. Pittsburgh Jewell, John 'tit', Pittsburgh Jennell. Doris x'tin, secretary, and Clarence Poor Santa! so tired almost on the verge of collapse.

He just arrived with a long story to tell. "-on, OCD official, will have Gogo, Michael L. Braun, Evelyn E. r. Pittsburgh rge of the meeting, the pur of which is to align OCD ts and give final instructions Tralka, Anthony Markovich, Josephine J.

Shost, Andrew i. I. ton Palcsak, Julia Groveton Crowds of shoppers stopped looked in win-u do then swarmed into stores that displayed color enlargements of Post Christmas pages. All over the U. S.

the shopping public was elated at finding something to take the guesswork out of "What to give for Christmas." Retailers were enthused (with good reason). perplexed shoppers. presents to exchange after Christmas. Hhe Army Day parade, April 6 Post Christmas Promotion caught on like wild-w fire. 100 department stores (yearly volume, $640, 000,000) had the promotion on an exclusive And that's not all 500 additional department stores in other cities also featured this promotion.

And how! Post Poll posters took the spotlight in windows at elevators in special departments devoted to gifts for men in the service, in fact, in all major gift departments. It all started when The Saturday Evening Post hit on an idea to lighten the burden of Christmas buying for stores' shoppers. The Post asked 10,000 families "What do you want for Christmas?" then printed the list of America's Favorite Christmas Gifts in the December 6 Post in five color pages. Toonervilie Folks By Fontaine Fox pi4 -v- tTCi -r 1 i -t wIwIm irw At i 4 1 1 JLiiJ I fr-i 'ii, 1 Ji, I 7f TMiiiiw ImwW wiMnn. c.

1 W-L. 2-'. 1 5 I' I I I'JDlr I 1 I i- yUt i mil Irrn'SO ft inai.i ii)r'iiMaiiii mit fUririmiMiiiufi n. inlllMlll) rill fMI Acting on the theory that a crowp attracts a crowp kr If 7 v1 c1 '1 i Praise letters poured in from stores in whole-sale batches. (Bigger and better business was the verdict.) Likewise the Post received newspaper pages to show how stores in their own ads featured nationally advertised merchandise and Post advertisers.

We counted 154,027 lines of such advertising. SANTA'S COMMENT: "Stores tell me that in their experience no other magazine matches the selling power of The Saturday Evening Post." 500O Drug Stores used the promotion to boost sales. And 500 men's wear stores, 1000 electric appliance and furniture stores also did outstanding jobs with the Post Gift Poll. Tire, radio manufacturers even life insurance companies hitched their selling to the Post promotion. Our personal Santa (now you know why he's exhausted and late) collected sales evidence from 7,100 stores in the form of letters, wires, photographs and newspaper tear sheets.

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