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Part II: 12 Pages THE CITY AND SUBURBS. I VOL. XL. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1921. POPTTTj A TTrVW I njr th0 ertl Cenn (1020) flIS.BW, avx VJiJriliU By the Cltr Dlrtctorj 1831 170,301.

Goes John Ernest Worrell Keely One Better. WHITE SPOT RUSH BEATS GOLD. NDUSTRY'S IN FINE TRIM TO WEAR DOWN STRIKERS Greatest Tide of Immigration for a Period of Eighteen Months Descends Upon Los Angeles; tar Outstrips Picturesque and Historical Influx Days of '49. BY HOWARD tt KEGLCT. Heralded nationally as the greatest tide of immigration that ever descended upon any region a period of eighteen months is that which has swept into this city since the 1920 census figures were announced.

The gold rush to California in the days of '49 has been easily outstripped. The best authorities say that 77,000 persons journeyed to California from all parts of the world during the eighteen months that ended in December of 1849. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce submits convincing statistics to show that 90,000 people have taken up their residence here since January, 1920. State Oil Production About Seventy Per Cent Normal; Small Chance of Northern Strike Extending. fS The California oil industry could, if compelled to do so, continue to do business with no change, in the strike situation in the San Joaquin Valley for a year.

Of course, it would be far from an ideal condition, and it would involve higher prices for fuel oil and for gasoline, but it could be done. The present condition can continue for six or eight months with only slight inconvenience. So far there has not been the slightest inconvenience to the public. There has not only been no increase to the consumer in the price of fuel oil, gasoline, kerosene or lubricants, but they are actually cheaper now than they have been at any time in the past two or three years. Except for those unfortunate enough to have to visit Kern county and be held up by strikers the public only knows of the strike through the newspapers.

Tt' was tho Yellow Spot on tho Hoar. In this city. plastorera and map Hint brought tho Forty-nlnorn I ntlnr mast of tho bulldlnir trad8 to thin Stnte. Tho White Spot Is now 1 wore paid as much an 116 a day. bringing a newer and a more per-1 Jfndearrlers sot $10 or better, some ninnent type of gold-digger.

The lathers mnde as much as ill cold rush put Ran FranclHco Harbor day, and a goodly number of th on the map The Industrial rush has most skillful men In the building put r.o Angoles Harbor Just as per- 1 trades drew from 19 to S18 a day. mnnc-ntly In the world'a geography. SENDS PROPERTY UP. Once the fortune-hunter camn to i a e-- cause much of the cas, electricity and telephone Bcrvlce goes Into factories and cannot bo separated as a basis upon which to cstlmato population, but. ln tho opinion of Secretary Wiggins at the Chamber of Commerce, building permits cannot be disputed.

LIKE FAIRY TALE. Eighteen months ago the govern-mcnt said Los Angeles had a population of Eight months California In search of tho pot of ln" i iVi.n. in mill at the rainbow's end. Now ho Francisco had 459 Inhabitants. In few weeks they were all ln the nld fields, fian Francisco was a comes nore to establish a business later It made a new estimate, rals- The price of both fuel oil and unbeatable combination of favor- Mescrtea village, ma roi eraw orlbeo-Uhe8 ffAsoline underwent 'two cuts but short time before tho strlko and the iiik me ngures to 611, yoo, a gain of 36,000.

In January of 1920 the city was so seriously ovorcrowded with people who desired to romain hero that the Chamber found It necessary to open a freo bureau of housing It found that the majority of those who sought accommodations Intend- prices then established still prevail Not only this, but deliveries are bo- arn lespqnsmie ror tne pne-i 7- tho, who h.Ve nriy insr made to all consumers without a i- e- t. konif here Jn the last two yenn i.ftf Angeles in admitted bv Kan u.on.. i they are awake to the Tact mat Francisco, whore the open-shop plnn was adopted hv the hultdfnir delay, difficulty or Inconvenience. The time for facing a strike was never more ideal than tho present, the time "which tho oil workers of the San Joaquin Valley chose to quit ea 10 remain nere, and much was done to relievo the houie shortage tneir jods. COMPANIES ARE PASSIVE.

The policy of tho companies Is a passive one. So far they have done nothing but wait. No strike breakers have been sent into the San Joanuin Valley since the first at tempt alonfr this lino showed tho here Is an opportunity to develop perpetual gold in the broad nnd smiling avenues of manufacturer and merchandising. Records of local warehouses and dailv reports of the transcontinental railways indicate that at least 7500 persons are coming here every month, bag- and baggage, carpet and eanarv. band-box and bejdstead.

Railroad nassenger reports might be successfully assaulted by envious rival-, but school enrollment and building records, upon which tho Chamber of Commerce bason Its con-iiervatUe conclusions, cannot be disproved. On of the transcontinental lines, which brings at least half the number of homeseekers into Southern California. Is authority for fcfie statement that Jt has laid down in this city within eight months strikers to be ln complete control of been only 33,000 barrels shprt oft the August demand, bo that If. ths demand should not go abovt tVtat of August and If at the time th present rate of production unchanged, the stocks on hjand September 1 would last 934 'tbiys, or more than two years. htr August -shipments were abnormal! low and It would bo safer to take those oC July which were 273,3 i5 barrels dally, or 53,000 more than the daily-output since the strike i began, at which rate the stocks on Jiand would last 582 days, or more than a year and a half.

i But again tho Pacific Petroleum War Service Commute held, after a careful study of the oil sftuatlon. that there 'ought neve jr to be less than 10,000.000 barre Is of oil on hand for tho' ordinary transaction of business, so deduct bar- rels for the, storage avallablo to be drawn upon; and It will bo found that what is fie ft will Mast 393 days, which Js pradtically fourteen months with production as Is now and consumption at an ajverage level of that of July. 1 IMPORTS OIF OIIJ There apniears io be no great change at present tho market demand to mtich a'oove that of July for some time to come, although eventually It will, far exceed this. However, tb allow? for all emergencies. It shoUld be borne in mfcnd that California lo not entirely dependent upon it pwnfflelds.

Mexican and eastern oil (tanreach hero via Panama in greiit quantities, thern n. tho erovernment or Kern county ana that Its officials have abdicated their trades only a few months ago, after thf Bay City had sustained the union yoke for half a century and Inst. Its position ns the metropolis of the Pacific Coast. POSITION REVERSED. Acordinp to history, Kan Fran-cisro was completely depopulated by tlie cold'rush.

Factories, mills, office and business houses closed their doors while lh Inhabitants hastened to American Rfvr and Sutter Crpek ln gofirch of the precious metnl. The situation here has ben Just the re orse. The industrial rush has canned creator business activity than thn city eer before knew Hundreds of factories have been built during- the past two yearf, and the community haH been unable to carry on Its building program as rapidly ss demands required, although In September It nearly established a world's record for construction work, and for two years it has hen widely discussed as tho White Spot on the map of a business world which was dark with depression nl all other points. Tt Is interesting to hark back to the gold davs for a moment. History savs that the diggers around Sacramento and Placervllle were able to pon out an average of per day, and that one miner nr- red J2H a day for sixteen days That was peventv yearn aco but last functions and turned over their authority to the' strikers.

Tho companies had stocks on hand September 1 amounting- to 30,846.533 barrels, according: to the monthly report of the Independent OH Producers' Agency, which report does not take Into account the stocks held by consumers which would add heavily to the total The production of the State since the strike began has been closo to 220,000 barrels dally, which is only 105,000 less than was produced during August. Jn other words, the strikers have only succcoded in reducing tho output of the State by barely 30 per cent. With the Standard, Shell and Pan-American working at full capacity, with quite a number of flow 575 carloads of household goods, 1 each representing thrpc families. Tist year his line broutrht 819 cant i here Officials of tho railways say that even the quantity of household good that is being brought hero is not a good indication of the Influx of people, because tifed furniture I has had such a high selling- value! that perhaps not more than half ofl the newcomers bring thelrfurnlturc surplus theite and now in a good I lng wells In the San Joaquin Valley nere wnn mcjn. Telephone, -water, gas and electrical installations reveal great gains, but they are not a safe estimate, be- time to brlnp It here when the demand for ocean tankers has fallen temporarily to low levol compared with tho brifek i war-time call and that which 'immediately followed tho armistice.

Just at present, too, despite two or three increases within tb last twb 'weeks, the price of oil ln tho eastiorjn and mfdeontinent fields Is ctllL tho California -levol. It is probably safef'to predict that within the'diext sixty days large and a number of wells being pumped by employees who have remained on duty, sometimes by foremen or superintendents, and with all the southern and coast fields operating at their full capacity, the production is, close to 70 per cent normal. CONSUMPTION IS LOW. During August tho dally shipments were only 253,824 barrels, the lowest ln many years. Since the strike began tho dally output has (Continued Second Pndb.) There is an unmistakable distinction about REEDCRAFT that immediately lifts it above the commonplace.

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Broadway 1 mm Mania rsxmx CAT STROPS HIS TAIL OWTHE MANS BARP Rnn, CAUSING GREAT AGITATION OPTHB 6IGTOEWHICM INTURN CAUSES EXCESSIVE VIBRATION OF THE STRING PASSINCTHPni.ru DIFFERENTIALS CAUSING SPINDLE TO REVOLVE VIOLENTLY. THUS STARTING SAUSAGE Dto EFFORTS OFTH POCH TO AN IM ex SAUSAGE CAUSES TABLE TO Wh.CH BELT IS ATTACHeO-TO ROTATE RAPIDLY, EXPLOSION IN CARBURFTEB TUP c-oDZ 5 A LEAK, AND THEY'RE OFF SniPLE ISnV vKBURlFTER THE SPARK PLUG SPRINCS Web Lymburner of Fullerton, Views of His Automatic Gravity Wheel, and a Thought of Another Subject. Regal Ball Strap Oxfords for Men InSt It goes on fcrevor. ho It Is Mr. Limburner.

himself who Is facing you under tho fell hat. He goes Keely of Keely 'motor fame one better by not selling stock." by finding temporary quarters ln families which oould spare one or two rooms for a few months. Tho city's building program slnco then reads like a fairy tale, hut It ll a true storv. Durinc 13 20 Los Special RIVALS PERPETUAL MOTION BUG. Fullerton Barber, Inspired by Pool Balls, Invents Automatic Contrivance Which He Says Will Do a Whole Lot of Things to Surprise Edison.

BY OTIS M. WILES. Down Fullerton way Web Lymburner, the town barber, would cease stroking a lathered face to watch with intense interest the antics of the "fifteen-ball" as it tried to dodge the side pocket. That was many years ago when Web operated the barber shop and poolroom next to the Rex Hotel. Those devilish pool balls set Web to thinkin'.

Yesterday Web shoved open his barn door, down in Fullerton, and revealed the labors of fourteen years of thinkin', inspired by watching the antics of the balls on the green-topped table in his poolroom. He exhibited a huge, crudely constructed apparatus which he calls an automatic Hear Mr. Grunn A new line of REGAL Ball Strap Oxfords; medium weight cherry calf; REGAL rubber heels a style to appeal to dressy men, and1 an exceptional value at the special price of $7.50. Angeles spent $60,000,000 In the construction of new buildings. It put up 25,555 in all, of which over 40 per cent were bungalows, apartment-houses or hotels.

These 10,000 structures, according to the Chamber of Commerce, accommodated an additional 50,000 people last year. In the first eight months of this year the city lias spent for buildings $10,000,000 more than It expended in 1020, and now has an additional 7500 resldances which are calculated to houso 40,000 new inhabitants. Th actual residential building program of the community Indicates a gain of 90,000 population since January 1020, and the end Is not yet. RECORDS SHATTERED. Last month the city took out $3,000,000 worth of building pcrmJts, establishing a record probably never exceeded outsldo of Now Tork and Chicago.

When all records for building permits were shattered hero in September with a total of S8.303.CG5. a comparison with other points in the State was made and tho astonishing fact revealed that Los Angelas not only exceeded tho total of the thirteen next largest cities, but did so by the handsome margin of $1,070 -433. The nearest competitor was San Francisco wJth $2,100,163 -Oakland followed with Then camo Sacramento with $918 121 Long Beach, $822,675, and Pasadena, $757,204. Tho other towns included San Diego. Fresno, Stockton.

San Jose, Santa Rosa. MnH AT THE gravity wheel and which he says will revolutionize power production throughout the world, eleven feot In diameter, onroratlnc on an axis. In this wheel 'are eight arms, extending outward i like the not only furnish power to operate the cleiator, but to create a surplus power. "I can get 150 revolutions out of this eleven-foot wheel." he said yes terday. "With a twenty-four-foot Hollywood Community Chorus Hollywood High School Auditorium Tuesday Evening, October 18 Mr.

Grunn will bo heard ln some Tory Interesting numbers, playing in comparison with bis own recordings Reproduced by the 1 AMPICO' in the Chickering Men's Wool Hose to wear with Oxfords; browns, mixtures and two-tones; some with hand embroidered clocks fl.00 to $Z8S per pair. CtnanShoty ShoQ- Though "Web had been a barber by trado and was even known around Orange county twenty-five years ago as( a prize-flghter, he had always nourished a hankering for inventing things. He Invented a nonrcflllablo bottle once nnd won considerable local fame with it. Several years ago ho left Fullerton, but a heavy frost ruined his ranch near Rodlands two years ago, and ho returned to his native home. But all that time ho had been tinkering with the Idea of perfecting a perpetual-motion machine.

Web had read a lot about perpetual motion being an impossible paradox, but he tolled on. He worked on his theory for two months before he convinced himself that tho center of gravity had to be broken. It made him mad; he destroyed his model and refused to touch it. BREAKS DEAD CENTERS. Eight years later he resumed work on his theory.

For tho last two years he has worked entirely on his gravity wheel. After two more months of labor, ho says, ho succeeded ln breaking the "dead centers." The machine, or automatic-gravity contrivance, consist ot wheol spoKcs or an ordinary wagon wheel. At the outer extremity of each arm is a bucket, large enough. to hold a two-pound steel ball. Tho ball rolls down a slanted trough created slightly above th eaxls of the wheel.

The bucket catches the ball as it reaches the outer end of the trough, carrying the arm and the ontire wheel rap-Idly downward, repeating the action with the following arm. Near tho bottom extremity of the wheel the ball is transferred to a trough and rolls to the lower center of the wheel, whero It Is transferred by lta own momentum to a little elevator which raises it to tho elevated trough, each succeeding ball repeating the motion. Web's problem was to have tho huge wheel produce enough power to operate the elevator that lifted the balls. He found that tho elevator would not lift half enough balls. Then ho met an engineer of power plant construction.

This E. II. Stevens, persuaded Web to Introduce electricity into his machine. A generator and a small dynamo were attached. Now, Web asserts, the movements of the balls generate enough electric power, with the aid oi a pully-wheol, to, wuuei i can produce revolutions Yet the wheel operates itself Independently for the motor that runs the elevator.

It will generate 100 per cent surplus power. With a two-pound ball in tho bucket, held at the point where the dead center is broken, the wheol had a pulling power of eight pounds on a friction brake fifteen Inches oft tho center of the wheel. At that, half of the total power is lost by friction." Wob said that for fourteen years he tried to beat the gamo of perpot-ual motion. ALMOST. Tt can't bo beat." he declared, giving a hitch to his khaki pants.

"However, I did break the dead center, a problem which was believed Impossible, and have almost perfected the first successful automatic gravity wheel. "It's not a perpatual motion Whlttier. Frank. 1. art This remarkable record la all tho moro astonishing since thn ITi T1 749 so.

BaoADwar 0VTHERNVALIFOBKIA bined population ot six of the thirteen cities, namoly, San Francisco, San Diego. Sacramento, 3asadena. 224 THIRD ST. 302 SO.BBMDWIX JlMUSICOMPANY Oakland and Long Beach is 1.000 -000, against this city's population which is estimated at fi-om 650.000 to 690.000. It- lndteate tw Third and Broadway Store Open Saturday Nights UntH 10 tS2-33t SOWS BROABWtQTt LOS ANGELES Other Stores: Long Beach, Riverside, San Diego, building activity here is nearly three umcs as great, as an overage, as It (Continued on Second; on Second, Pagc) 4.