The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06

and the extreme Northwestern part of the United States, are alive with motor trvck transport companies
 Ir England the official automobile l- cerse tag must be kept in a small cir sular holder attached 10 the car and d splayed near the windshieid
 Tony Tommy, chief Of the Florida SemnoIes, who still wear the ssrb of heir forefathers, is the first of his tribe to buy and operate his own automobile.
 Because of an existing martial law, the use of motor vehicles between the hours of o'clock at night and 6 o'clock in the morning is prohibited in Ireland.
 Billy" Sunday, the baseball cvsngel- ist. is in favor of the use Of automobile riding on Sunday for health and recrea- tion, and to get in touch with God s out of doors.
 American made passenger automo- piles, exhibited in various motor shows throughout the union. range in price from the cheapest at $f,o0o to the most costly at $11,0o0.
 In San Francisco a 60-foot steel girder S2 inches high and weighing 41,ooo pounds, was successfully hauled
 through the city traffic on a motor
 truck and two-wheel trailer.
 Because, of a falling off in the de-
 mand for baby carriages. manufac-
 turers in Chicago are experimenting
 on a new type of motor perambulator operated by storage batteries.
 Brooklyn. N r.. issued permits for
 S,s17 garages, S,157 dwellings and 10 churches last year. The estimated cost
 of the garages was 30 times that of the
 churches.
 Lieut.. J. D. Click, n command of
 the submarine chaser Eagle 40, has
 special permission from the navy de- partment to carry his passenger auto mobile on the vessel he commands The first motor bus was operated in California on June 12, 1914. Today there are more than 5000 auto stage companies with a total of approximate ly 36,000 cars operating throughout the state.
 The total number of automobiles i'm ported into Brazil from January, 1907. to June 90. 1920, was 24.475, represent ing a value of $24,723,430. Of this num- Der the United States furnished 15,103 cars.
 Among the features to be seen in the new motor truck models. there are additional speed changes A. or 6; heavier rear-end construction, coupl- ing devices for trailers and increased braking surfaces.
 WAiAC HthC POiiCc NWSIc ut automobiles bearing 1920 license tags after the limited extension of time in Philadelphia, motor patrol wagon i and a motor hearse were among the hundreds of automobiles and trucks seized.
 An annual race for automobiles, pro- noted by the auto club of Argentina was recently held with an entry of 39 cars the largest on record. and the 1 biggest automobile event ever held ir South America. Of the cars entered g. 1 were American de.
 1 Paris has the reputation of being ] the most dangerous city in the world l for traffic deadliness or the 50, 00( I persons struck by taxicabs, autobusses l and other automobiles during the las; 1 year, 100 died as a result of their in 1 jrries A large proportion were wom CT and children and aged persons. l The first four danger signs which
 mark the highways of this country were recommended by the Internation- al Road congress held at Paris. 1918 ! Since then, the American Automobils association recommends four others l for use near schools, quiet zones, dan gerous bridges, underpasses and places l of extreme danger