Scientist Tesla Reveals Self as Earthquake-Maker

Started Houston St. Temblors 37 Years Ago; Could Shake Down Whole City.

Scientist Nikola Tesla's birthday revelation that he started an earthquake alarmed a downtown Ghetto today.

Most immediate reaction to the famous inventor's announcement of three "revolutionary discoveries" was startled curiosity about the location of his secret laboratory, which supposedly still houses his earthquake machine.

Tesla refused pointedly to disclose where he works the world's weirdest spot in popular mind today. In addition to the mysterious "quake maker" he puckishly described during a scientific upset intended for Albert Einstein and others. Tesla's workshop was revealed as containing also a new kind. of motor driven by cosmic particles" from the sun. and a mechanism that sends vibrations rippling through the earth as a new form of communication..

The inventor, whose 700 basic patents include widely used methods of large-scale distribution of electricity, assumed on his 79th birthday the aspect of a sinister wizard when he confessed that in his bony wedge-shaped brad started the Houston st, earthquake of 37 years ago.

One day violent temblors shook a neighborhood. They centered, mysteriously in one building. People were thrown into panic. Firemen and police responded to alarms.

Suddenly the vibrations stopped. Tesla said the "quake" ceased when he snatched up a hammer and knocked a gadget from the wall of his laboratory. His workshop then was in the most affected building. Where it is now be refused to reveal.

The gadget, he said, was a vibration amplifying mechanism set to harmonize with the building's vibrations. He said a small quake maker could shake a whole city to pieces.

The inventor already has in his laboratory a "cosmic" machine, he disclosed. He said it was driven by "cosmic particles" which strike the earth at speeds 50 times greater than light. He contended that such machines, if perfected, will supply enough power for New York City from the cosmic particles striking one square foot.

The relativitist theory holds that light, traveling 186.000 miles a second, is the greatest velocity. Tesla said the theory is "a mass or errors," and that science had overlooked cosmic particles by concentrating upon cosmic rays.

Tesla's second announcement was of perfection of an electrical generator which produces a direct, one-way current without the use of a commutator - "something that engineers since Faraday have agreed could not be done."