——The Athletics are still far
enough in the lead to make the pen-
nant of this year a pleasant subject
for contemplation.
—As we read of the terrible floods
in China and the almost incredible
loss of life, we wonder if it is one
of the Creator's plans for keeping
iown the ever increasing population |
f the earth.
VOL. 76.
——On “sober, second thought”
Jovernor Pinchot may change his
mind about calling the General As-|
sembly into extra session.
se hard to shift responsibility for
‘he expense.
—Jack Dempsey is staging a|
*omeback. It ought tobe easy for
iim to “take” all of the heavy-|
w~eight contenders in this country,
ut knocking the crown off that
Schmelling head is something else
gain. We fear Jack couldn't do!
hat. Besides, he developed an
wersion to fighting Germans some |
‘ourteen years ago.
—The money that Japan has spent
Resignation of Mr. Malone.
The resignation of James F. Ma-
the practical politicians of the State
d must have been in the nature of
a shock to the ‘holier than thou”
admirers of the Governor. Mr. Ma-
lone is a practical politician of wide
experience. A gradulate of the
Pittsburgh “Strip” he brought to the
service of the faction with which he
was affiliated a varied assortment of
sinister tricks. For reasons which
| have never been explained, and prob- be continued but
ably never will be understood, he at-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
| The Republican leaders are work-
three years ago to prove that it
was. Herbert Hoover was especial-
|ly active inthis form of propaganda.
| Forgetting the panics of 1873 and
| 1907 and 1921, he painted glowing
| word pictures of the prosperity dur-
ling the eight years he had served
in the cabinets of President Hard-
ing and Coolidge and freely prom.
ised that in the event of his elec-
|tion the prosperity would not only
| vastly increased.
|He literally guaranteed a land “‘flow-
‘eting the Lindberghs will all be tached himself to Pinchot last year ing in milk and honey”, an era of
»aid back eventually.
yig earthquake they have the Red
Cross will be appealing for
0 succor the stricken. If the
Solonel and Ann fly to China we
ope they ask the rich Chinamen
wvho will be lavishing entertainment
n them for the cash that such af-
‘airs would cost, then give it for
“ice for the millions who are said
0 be starving in that land right
10W.
—We hear that overseer ou)
Tleming is on the anxious bench. |
je is not so sure that he is going
0 be renominated by his party for |
he office he has held for 7 years.
fom was once a Democrat, but he
as fared much better since chang-
ng his stripes, for besides being
werseer he is the court crier and
he frequency with which we have
:ourts these days makes that a very
ucrative plum. We voted for him
mce, but if he fails to get the
womination this time we shall shed
10 tears.
—There are fifty-nine gentlemen
n Centre county who are as much
:oncerned about what will happen
mn the fifteenth of September as
ve are as to what the fifteenth of
text April holds in store for us. Of
‘ourse we refer to the candidates
or county office who will be fish-
ng for votes on that date. As we
Em le, SE
red fellows that none of the candi-
lates will really know who thay
vere in with until the morning of |
he sixteenth of September.
--Jt is said that the registration
ists in the county show fourteen
housand Republicans and seven
housard Democrats. That means
ittle to us, because we know that
nany Democrats changed their reg-
stration last year in order to vote
or Pinchot at the primaries. Few
f them have taken the trouble to
hange back. In several districts
n the county we know that hun-
reds of Democrats changed their
egistration this spring in order to
‘ote for a favorite in the Republican
irimaries. Under such political
ence jumping conditions it is hard
o determine what the relative vot-
ng strength of the parties is.
—A recent edition of the “Houtz-
lale Citizen” carries a twenty four
wint head: “Methodists Should
{now Their Code.” When we first
amped it we thought perhaps the
Citizen” was either going after
3ishop Cannon or taking the Meth-
dists of its home town to task for
loing a lot of things the discipline
f the church does not permit. We
vere wrong in both surmises. The
rticle calls attention to changesin
he motor traffic laws and we pre-
ume that the compositor who set
he head had a piece of bad copy
hat looked more like “Methodists”
han “Motorists,” which it was in-
ended to be. However, the way
hey go riding on Sundays instead
f to church, these days, one can't
lame a printer who would think of
Methodists” and “Motorists” as
irtually synonomous.
—The merriest primary fight that
‘entre county has seen for years is
rawing to a close and everybody is
t sea as to just what the outcome
f it will be. The Republicans, of
ourse, are having the most fun, but
ere is one Democrat who isn't en-
Jying it as he should, because he
an't find out what is “making the
heels go round.” Apparently Sen-
tor Scott is sitting aloof. All
he traps we have set have failed to
atch Judge Fleming in anybody's
orner. And the fact that county
hairman Fleming and Tom Harter
re for most of the Dale-Heverly-
Vhite slate is little consolation,
aough it is mildly intriguing. Dale,
leverly and White are head of the
‘inchot crowd in Centre county and
ince they have the jobs to give it
1 only reasonable to believe that
aeir favorites have a decided ad-
antage and will win in the pri-
aries. But who are they, outside
f Keeler. That's what has been
rorrying us. A political band
ragon is only interesting when one
nows who is on it.
| joined the army of unemployed. i
{rogue e'er felt the halter draw with
The next and was largely responsible for the | unexampled wealth and
Pinchot majority in Pittsburgh.
funds Pittsburgh politicians are not, as |
|a rule, of the adhesive variety and bert Hoover with responsibility for |
Mr. Malone, like the rest of them,
label. But it may be said that he
Pinchot. Because of impaired health
Senator Leslie voluntarily retired
from public life a few years ago and
| thus automatically released Mr. Ma-
lone and all his other faithful fol-
{lowers to make such contacts or
| contracts as promised the richest re-
| wards.
with one of his most important
offices.
But in the Pittsburgh “Strip”
school of politics there is an unwrit-
ten rule that in minor matters the
right of personal choice.
Mr. Malone undertook to exercise
this right. Mr. Pinchot, being less
liberal-minded than Leslie, was not
inclined to continue that policy and
peremptorily ordered Malone to sup-
port a candidate for County Com- |
missioner who carried the Pinchot
label both on his breast and back. |
The result was an irreconcilable
conflict, . It may result in. the .ulti-
mate defeat of the Pinchot policy of
“rule or ruin”. Mr. Malone has
i
|
——A $1,100,000,000 bond issue is |
contemplated in Washington. This
calls to mind that people used to!
say unkind things of any adminis-
tration that borrowed money in
peace times.
Bishop Cannon Exposed.
The resumed investigation of Bish-
op Cannon's political activities in
the campaign of 1928 reveals the
fact that he is not only a confirmed
political crook but a moral degen-
erate. The records show that he
received from Edwin C. Jameson, of
New York, the sum of $65,000 to be
used in the campaign of bigotry
against Governor Smith. Of this
sum he accounted for $17,000 and
‘apparently appropriated some of it
to his own use. This involved not
only the embezzlement of that
amount but perjury in his failure to
state the full sum in his sworn re-
turn. There can be no other inter-
pretation of the transaction.
Moreover the evidence leaves noth-
ing to conjecture in the matter.
Perry Seay, vice president of the
American National Bank, of Rich-
mond, Va., testified that Bishop Can-
non frequently made deposits in that
bank “through checks drawn on the
Cannon political account in the!
Washington bank, the deposits in-
variably being made to the personal
account of the churchman.” Several
other bank officials testified to the
Bishop's habit of “kiting checks,”
that is shifting from one bank to
another, thus operating on a basis
of fictitious credits to his personal
advantage at the expense of his per-
sonal integrity.
In view of this cumulative testi-
mony of fraudulent operations it is
small wonder that Bishop Cannon
resisted, by every available method
and legal trick, a Congressional in-
vestigation of his political activities
in the Presidential campaign of 1928.
He made pretense that he was in-
fluenced by prohibition or religious
prejudices. But the facts as ex-
posed by the Senator Nye investiga-
tion indicate that the principal cause
of his activity was an abnormal
cupidity. It gave him opportunity
to acquire money and he embraced
it. The Methodist church is justly
respected all over the world, but it
takes long chances in honoring such
men as Cannon must certainly be
if he persists in the effort to cover
his tracks.
———Bishop Cannon pretends tobe
greatly outraged by the Senate
Committee's investigation. ‘No
good opinion of the law.”
content-
| ment.
It would be unfair to charge Her-
|the economic depression which fol-
| President but it is not unjust te
cessor and himself precipitated the
| crash, the Grundy tariff aggravated
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 4, 1931.
Hoover is Not Free from Blame. | Bankers ana Farmers Must Work FIFTY YEARS AGO
Together.
If he | ——
‘lone, of Pittsburgh, from the office ing as vigorously now to show that (Concrete evidence of aid that the
should fail in his purpose it would ,¢ Secretary of Property and Sup- the administration is not responsi- bankers of the State have given to
plies in the cabinet of Governor | ble for hard times as they were
Pinchot, was a startling surprise to
| nities in particular, was reported by
'N. E. Robb, treasurer of the Belle-
| fonte Trust company, Bellefonte, on
his return from State College where
‘fourth annual conference Tuesday
land Wednesday of last week. Ex-
amples of successful projects that
{had been carried out by banks in
| various counties of the State were
| recited in detail by the bankers who
| suggested that other
| farmer and the banker as well.
| Sponsoring such projects, particu-
| larly
ler's chief responsibilities, in the
‘might be considered a rather stead- say that his party is responsible, and ,ninjon of those who addressed the
|fast adherent of Max Leslie, for that his ineptness has greatly pro- group during the two-day sessions.
some years Senator in the General longed the period of industrial dis- | Tours of the county by the county’
| Assembly, boss of the “Strip” district tress. The speculative orgie which , apn kers association, exhibits of
and an uncompromising enemy of was encouraged by both his prede- gaem products in the bank building,
| organization of club activities for
|boys and girls, advertising cam-
| agriculture in general, and to the
farmers of their respective commu-
| the Pennsylvania Bankers Associa-
toin committee on agriculture and
the county key bankers held their
communities
| might try them with profit to the
| in times of financial stress as
frequently changed his factional lowed his induction into the office of a¢ present, is one of the rural bank-
NO. 35.
p—
IN CENTRE COUNTY
Items taken from the Watchman issue
of September 9, 1881.
—Miss Edith, daughter of John P.
Harris, has gone to Beston where
she will enter Wellsboro college—
(The Watchman of fifty years ago
propubly didn't know that it was
ellesley and that it is not located
‘in Boston—Editor’'s Note.)
—Reports from Penns valley are
to the effect that it is
over there and farming is at a stand-
still because the ground cannot be
plowed. Springs are ceasing to
flow and trees are dying.
—The Bellefonte car works are
now turning out an average of six
cars a day.
—Tuesday last was the hottest
(day we have had this summer.
—Those abominations known as
| “hoops” are in style again. If
ladies knew how much betler they
look without them they would be
discarded entirely.
—William H. Decker, of Walker
| township, while plowing in one of
his father's fields, a few days ago,
turned up a nest containing
|to the sun while he plowed several
| rounds and then discovered 36 tiny
it by closing world markets to prod- | pajgns to stimulate consumption of a snakes emerging from them.
(ucts of soil and factory, and his certain product, and assistance with Supt. Samuel Rine
| stupid resistance to every practical |
| method of alleviation prolonged it.
|The relief measures proposed by
| Senator Wagner, of New York,
| would have restored confidence and
industrial activity a year ago.
| Even now President Hoover is
|trying to deceive the public mind
by creating “a fool's paradise”
| government, and that agency alone,
{can perform and ought to perform.
|The Governor of New York has
courageously and intelligently pro-
posed the only plan possible under
the limited authority of a State
executive. He has pointed a way
which, if adopted by the National
government, would achieve the
pose, But it would impose a
den on those who contributed to
the Republican campaign fund in
1928 and are expected to perform
the same service next year.
——The underworld has
another “shining light.”
lost
Mickey
| Duffey, of Philadelphia, was mur-
dered in an Atlantic
last Saturday.
City hotel
Will Rogers Exposes a Fraud.
Will Rogers observes: “Mr. Mel.
lon is to-day’s headliner, borrowing
$1,100,000,000 at three per cent. He
could have got it for about 11%, but
wanted to give the boys a break.
This means they are going to finance
by borrowing instead of increased
taxes on those able to pay. It's
too close to election to antagonize
the big boys.” Mr. Rogers submits
this as a specimen of humor. As
a matter of fact it is an expression
of high class philosophy. It re-
veals the policy and purpose of the
Hoover administration. The high-
bracket income tax payers must be
protected even though the charita-
bly inclined are ‘bled white.”
By mismanagement, or stupid cal-
culation, or both, the national treas-
ury has been drained to the limit
while the vaults of the banks are
practically bursting. The deficit of
nearly a billion dollars at the begin-
ning of the fiscal year has been in-
creased at the rate of several mil-
lion dollars a month. There are
two ways of remedying this posi-
tive and palpable evil. One is to
increase revenues and the other to
borrow money, thus shifting the
burden to posterity. By borrowing
the public is chloroformed into con-
tentment by fraud. If the taxes
pre increased the rich resent the
method and refuse to fatten the
slush fund.
The administration imagines it
can put this fraud over on the pub-
lice. But it hasn't fooled Will
Rogers. Maybe it will be equally
unsuccessful with respect to mil.
lions of others. The public schools
of the country have been hard on
the manufacturers and distributors
of hokum in recent years and tricks
that could be put across a few years
ago are no longer efficient. Pos-
sibly Herbert Hoover and Andrew
Mellon are not aware of the change
in public intelligence. But a radl-
cal change has occurred and snake
doctors and political charlatans are
no longer able to fool a majority of
the people, even part of the time.
——Ramsay MacDonald is still
Prime Minister of Great Britain but
he has lost his job as head of the
Labor party.
——There will be no third party
next year and the Republican party
will be a poor second.
| cooperatives were pointed ou! as
some of the more successful projects
|to be backed by a bank.
Mr. Malone attached him- Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, and | ¢ ors’ Is
‘self to Pinchot and was compensated Organization of a bankers’ assoc
that the drought has caused the Big
| Spring to fall three and one-half
|inches, but as it is still flowing at
| the rate of 14,600 gallons per minute
ation within the county was declared | there seems to be no cause for wor.
‘by the visitors to be almost indis-
| pensable in the furtherance of a suc-
| cessful banker-farmer program.
| Underlying the entire agricultural
| situation in Pennsylvania is a feel-
individual members shall have the in the form of another commissiod no of confidence in himself on the
In the to perform by some imaginary pro- part of the farmer, Mr. Charles F.
campaign for local offices, this year, cess, the service that the Federal zi merman, of tin saom secre-
tary of the State association, told
the delegates in his address. This
self-confidence is a trust that the
banker must not betray when the
farmer needs financial help, Mr.
| Zimmerman declared, and added
| that in his observation the Pennsyl-
vania farmer has no intention of
of , but is digging in to see
the job through.
Rural taxation problems were
on the program. The géneral feel-
ing on the part of the bankers is
that there must be a revision of
taxes to bring about a parity be-
tween farm income and the income
from the industrial system before
the country’s purchasing power. A
tax program based on the earning
capacity of the farm was recom-
mended as a possible step to bring
about stabilization.
Work that the Pennsylvania State
College is doing through its agricul-
tural extension service came in for
praise by the bankers who agreed
that it would be virtually impossible
to carry out a project of farmer
aid without the assistance of the
county agents. M. S. McDowell,
director of this extension work,
urged the bankers to encourage
members of the community to take
part in this program, stating that
the county agent and the banker
could not do it alone.
One out-of.State banker address-
ed the group, Dr. Harold Stoiner,
{educational director of the Ameri-
can Institute of Banking, New York
city.
Among the speakers on the pro-
gram who were assigned by Mr.
William S. McKay, of Greenville,
director of the conference and treas-
urer of the State association, to
discuss various topics was: N. E.
Robb, of Bellefonte.
—— He kept us out of Commun-
ism” is to be the Hoover slogan,
next year, a Washington correspond-
ent announces. He kept us hun-
gry would be a fitter statement.
—~—The executioner is at work
in Harrisburg. Fifty eight em-
ployees of the Revenue Department
were dismissed in one day last
week.
——QGreen county, Indiana, is now
the centre of population but Boston
still claims to be the “hub” of the
universe.”
——The cheerful news comes
from Baltimore that ‘bivalves are
plentiful and of good size,” this
year.
———According to gossip PincHot
woes are multiplying. Even Sam
Lewis is threatening to revolt.
——All the political experts are
predicting a break between Pinchot
and Grundy.
AA ————
i
| —When you read it in the Watch-
| man you know it's true.
mentioned by nearly every speaker |
there is a complete restoration of | by
ry.— (Evidently either the calculation
of the spring's flow fifty years ago
or that today is in error. If Supt.
Rine's figures were correct the flow
was twenty-one million gallons daily
at that time whereas now it is only
eleven and one-half million. So far
as our observation is concerned its
flow has not decreased a bit in that
period.—Editor’s Note.)
—On Tuesday afternoon last the
grass on the lawn of the Daniel
Rhoads home on West Linn street
spontaneously combusted and the
fire was very threatening for a while.
It was y beaten out before any
buildings were set ablaze. It was
so dry and hot that it might have
been a case of spontaneous combus-
tion, but we question that.
—The Mattern Bros. have opened
a general merchandise store at
Scotia.
—Thermometers in Bellefonte reg-
istered from 102 to 104 last Tuesday.
—A forest fire swept in to Houtz-
dale last Tuesday and before it
coud be stopped about half of that
thriving mining town was licked up
the flames. Scarcity of water
rendered impotent the efforts of
those who tried to stop it.
—William Long, of Bennezette, is
in jail for stealing a watch chain at
Weidman's jewelry store in Lock
Haven. He was caught because a
Nittany Valley girl to whom he had
given it left it at Martin Fauble’s
jowelry store to be cleaned and Mr.
uble, thinking there was some-
suspicious about her actions,
notified the authorities.
—Gum Boo is the name of the first
Chinaman to locate in Bellefonte. He
came here from Pittsburgh, on Tues-
day, and will open a 1 in the
McAfferty block on west High street.
—(The McAfferty block in question
was a one-story frame building that
stood approximately on the site of
the present Potter-Hoy Hardware
use on west High street. It
had four store rooms fronting on
High and three fronting on Railroad
—Editor's Note.)
—Neaily all of the Berwind White
and Co's in the Snow Shoe
On Wednesday the railroad trestl
near Snow Shoe caught fire and only
their most heroic efforts saved it
from destruction.
Donation Week For Presbyterian
Home.
The annual donation to the Pres-
byterian home, at Hollidaysburg, has
been set for the week beginning Oc-
tober 19th, and a call has been ex-
tended to members of all the churches
in the Huntingdon Presbytery. Every-
thing in the line of farm and garden
produce, groceries, Etc., will be ac-
ceptable.
The home needs an abundance of
small fruits for pies and desserts.
Last year, or from February 14th,
1930, to February 14th, 1931, a total
of 64,000 meals were served. Every
room in the home is now ready to
be occupied and admission papers
have been pi and accépted.
Two new residents will be admitted
this month.
At present the home accomodates
51 accepted guests and to operateit
requires the service of a superinten-
dent, matron, nurse, two infirmary
assistants, laundress, two cooks, an
assistant cook, two dining room girls
and two housemaids, a total of 64
people to feed and care for.
The needs of the home are much
greater this year than ever before
and in order that no donations may
be overlooked trucks and cars will
be sent around among the members
of every church to gather up the
donations.
very dry
36 Gallitzin,
snake eggs. He left them exposed’
informs us|
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR,
—The Bureau of Motor Vehicles during
the past week withdrew the cards of 90
drivers. Of the total 15 were revoked
and 75 suspended.
—Attaches of the State Game Commis-
sion are working on the job of trapping
about 250 beaver on the watershed of the
Lewisburg Water company because of
complaints made against their presence.
Up to last Friday thirty of the animals
had been trapped.
~—H.G. and J. L. Probst, both of Lock
Haven, have opened a mattress factory
under the name of the Lock Haven Mut.
tress company, which is housed for the
present on the second floor of the H. E.
Probst building on east Church street.
| The new company will manufacture and
repair mattresses.
—Henry Summers, 20 years old, of
Flemington, lost the end of the middle
finger of his left hand, one evening last
week, when a bull he was hauling ona
truck in a crate became infuriated and
| pulled the rope which was around the
animal's neck and also about Summers’
wrist. Summers’ fingers were drawn be-
tween the slats of the crate
--With only sixty-seven cases report-
| ed 80 far this year, the Pennsylvania
| State Health Department has little fear
! concerning the infantile paralysis situa-
tion in the State, Health Secretary Theo-
|dore B. Appel said on Monday. The
disease is not considered serious, he
| sald, except when more than 250 cases
| appear in the State in a year's time.
| —Charles Fashion, 42, Altoona road-
house cafe owner, wanted for the mur-
|der of his brother, Joseph Fashion, 32,
lof Twin Rocks, and the wounding of his
| wife, Mrs. Angelo Fashion, 34, Altoona,
| was arrested late on Tuesday, at New-
lark, N. J. The arrest followed the
| broadcasting of a message through the
| police teletype system. He is said to
have admitted to the shooting.
| —Andrew Israle, of 512 Burns street,
| Gallitzin, was instantly killed on Tues-
!day, at 4:06 p. m., in the Argyle Tun-
nel coal mine, a short distance east of
when he was walking beside
mine cars which crashed into a mule,
wrecking the cars against the wall of
the mine and crushing him. He had
| finished his work and was on his way
out of the mine when the accident oc-
| curred.
—Nanticoke police broke up what they
| have reason to believe was a counterfeit
| ring which, according to the officers had
flooded the United States with fake $20
bills. Five persons, a woman, her three
sons and a man, who gave their home
city as Cleveland, Ohio, were arrested
after three of the men tried to pass a
counterfeit $20 bill on a gasoline sta-
tion attendant in Nanticoke. An en-
graver's steel plate, printing press and
1101 counterfeit $20 bills were confiscated.
—Police authorities are seeking two
highwaymen who late Tuesday night of
last week held up W. J. Tate, Curwens-
ville, and robbed him of $150, on the
state highway between the State nursery
and Penfield. Tate, salesman for the
Oswald and Hess Meat Packing company,
of Pittsburgh, was enroute to his home
in Clearfleld when held up. He was
stopped by a signal from a red light on
the highway. He was forced to leave
‘his machine and was relieved of his cash.
—Newton Orendorff, farmer, of Pigeon
Hills, York county, received a letter two
weeks ago, warning him a large hay-
stack on his property was to be burned,
He disregarded the warning and the
stack was burned. When he received
another note last week saying his barn
| was to be destroyed, Orendorfl took the
| hint and kept watch every night. Noth-
ing happened and early on Sunday he
relaxed his vigil after locking the barn
| doors. Soon after he left the structure
| was discovered in flames and despite
| efforts of firemen it was destroyed. His
‘loss was estimated at $4000.
| —Within three weeks to the day they
beat and robhed an aged farmer, Charles
| O. Edwards, 24, of Bedford, and Clifford
Ashton, 20, of New Hope, were sentenc-
ed to long prison terms by Judge Hi-
‘ram Keller, in Bucks county court on
Tuesday. Edwards, who engineered the
holdup, was sentenced to serve from
nine to 18 years in the eastern peniten-
tiary, while Ashton was given seven and
one-half to 15 years in the same prison.
The bandits held up James R. Hansell,
64-year old Buckingham farmer, on the
night of August 12, taking $4000 which
he carried in a tobacco pouch.
—Discovery of a ten-acre patch of
marijuana, a rare weed containing a dan-
gerous and powerful habit-forming drug,
within the precincts Philadelphia, was re-
ported last Friday by United States cus-
toms officials. The growth of the nar-
cotic, commonly known as ‘loco weed,”
would have brought $125,000 at under-
world prices, narcotic agents said. Cus-
toms officials believe it was planted Dy
persons seeking to evade the narcotic
laws prohibiting its importation and use.
The board of health department notified
owners of the property, the location of
which is being kept secret, that The
weeds will be burned.
—Daniel Latshaw, 22, of Dornsife,
Northumberland county, is convinced he
would make a good preacher. He felt a
call to enter the ministry last spring,
and decided to raise chickens to get
funds for his education. Monday of last
week he found a door of his coop brok-
en and 150 of his 210 chickens stolen.
He spurned police aid to recover the
chickens, and secluded himself in prayer
for three days. Saturday morning he
found the lock on his coop broken again,
and entered expecting to find the rest of
hig chickens stolen. Instead, he found
his prayers answered. The thief had re-
turned every one of the 150 stolen chick-
ens unharmed.
—Thirteen contracting firms on Tues-
day sumbitted bids for construction
work on the $1,500,000 Pymatuning Dam
project in northwestern Pennsylvania,
each bidder submitting figures for 30
different units of work. Officials of the
State Water and Power Resources Board
said that tabulation for the lowest bid-
der on the 900 units would require at
least several days. The barrier will be
an earth embankment 2400 feet long and
fifty feet in maximum height. Other
units in the construction of the dam in-
clude 870,000 cubic yards embankment,
180,000 cubic yards excavation, 5000 cubic
yards concrete, 900 tons of steel sheet
piling, 9000 cubic yards of riprap and
4000 cubic yavds of stone paving. When
completed, the river will be dammed up
to form the largest lake in Pennsylva-
nia with an area almost 3000 acres larg-
er than that of Lake Chautauqua, In
New York.