Tesla to Reveal New Inventions

Will Soon Announce What He's Doing for Defense.

Dr. Nikola Tesla, pioneer in wireless telegraphy and inventor known internationally for his research in sound and light transmission, told reporters today that his customary birthday party originally scheduled for tomorrow, which is the eighty-fifth anniversary of his birth, would be postponed for about a week and that he would make announcements concerning defense inventions on which he is working next week.

The plans will be offered to the United States, Dr. Tesla disclosed, but declined to specify at this time the nature of his new inventions. In recent years the scientist has been experimenting with the idea of transmitting power through the ether.

Dr. Tesla who was born in what was for a time Yugoslavia, is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and has numerous other decorations. He has been living on the thirty-third floor of the Hotel New Yorker for several years, sometimes not emerging from his combination laboratory and living quarters for months at a time.