At 6.27 P.M. while I was sitting studying my maps, I heard a rumble and then a sharp short knock followed by a slighter one that one couldn't hear as my bureau flew across the room from N. and S. Getting near to it, but just once decided it was an earthquake shock. The next day the papers said nothing about it once, but the elevator man asked me if I felt it, and when I asked him how often they occur he said one in about say two weeks. This shows plain that Coastal California is in constant motion. Burwolda told me last week that recently the Chairman of the Board of Commerce of Pasadena called on Amelia Orilliana and granted all funds for earthquakes to the physicists of the University of California, and Stroll now called and the three then gave the Chairman a stiff talk and said it was their duty to keep on talking so that the proper precaution can be taken in building the houses in the proper manner.