LEET ANNOUNCES QUAKE CENTER NEAR OTTAWA

Contrary to the reports in Boston papers, Ottawa was the center of yesterday's earthquake instead of the middle of the ocean, Dr. L. Don Leet, head of the Harvard seismograph station reported last night. Previously Dr. Leet had hazarded the guess that the center of the quake was in the ocean, but recent reports from other stations confirmed the fact that the worst tremors were somewhere in the vicinity of Ottawa.

The expert's opinion was that the quake must have been in some deserted spot, for as yet there had been no reports of any serious damage nor were there likely to be any.

Station Out of Order

Dr. Leet said that the difficulty in tracing the quake was due largely to its intensity, since his own station had been completely disrupted and had recorded only a series of "whiteouts." There was every reason to believe that other stations in the vicinity had had the same difficulty.

Dr. Leet said that he first learned of the earthquake when a Boston paper called him up at breakfast and informed him that there had been a series of tremors which had shaken up most of greater Boston. Leet was besieged by calls from New England residents and from newspapers, but he admitted that the most he could do was to "case a few troubled breasts," since his own station was not functioning.