The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
MOTOR DIGEST
Auto Activities Throughout
 The World

Scrap rubber, spread on In liquid form, is used for road surface dress ing in Ceylon.
 White automobile hearses, with body of Oriental design, are used by wealthier classes In Japan. Lunacy commissions in DetrCit. Mich. are striving to ascertain if au- tomobile speeders are insane.
 Of 100000 motorcycles operated throuhgout the world scarcely 22 per cent are owned in the United States.
 The post office department has 306-mile mail motorized route, ex- tending from Chitini to Fairbanks, Alaska.
 There are nc fewer than So,0 mo- tor vehicles running in and out, over and through the streets of New York city every day.
 The late city wall of Canton, in China, now serves as top surface for 2S miles of fine highway, over which motor busses and automobiles are running.
 Tampa is the "tin-can tourist capi- tai" of Florida with a tent city of more than 400 motor cars and their 2,300 owners and tourists. The camp Is subdivided into city of 12 streets.
 To relieve tho traffic congestion in Seattle. Wash, the roof of a down. town business building has been con verted into an automobile parking station. A special runway has been built to the roof. which will accom- modate 100 cars.
 Because of the congestion, there are now not enough streets In Chi caso. or leading through the city. to carry the motor traffic conveniently, comfortably and safely. Traffic eX- perts are now studying ways and means of handling the cars.
 The motorcycle speed craze has now struck Germany There Is great variety of models. Side cars range from elaborate coupes, seat ing two or three persons, to small bathtub shaped arrangements, with room fer one person and spare inner tube.
 William Nuckols, nine years old, of Richmond, Va, Is the youngest auto mobile thief on record. While visit ing his uncle In Louisville Ky, he was caught touring the city In a car which the police say he had Dor rowed." He had never driven car before.
 A fleet of 32 American-made auto mobiles were recently purchased by the city of Buenos Aires in South America. All the cars are for the
  one of the most efficient in the world In the fleet are 20 passenger cars, five limousines and seven ann balances.
 An automobile device for recording traffic is being installed in front of the campus of the University of fon narytand road o{ {s 'hs purpose s to automatically, on a permanent rec ord. not only the number of vehicles which pass over 1t, but also their weight.
 The most important transconti- mental highways which actually run from coast to coast and carry road markers throughout their entire length are: The Yellowstone Trail connecting Boston and Seattle; the Lincoln ighway-from New York to San Francisco: the National Old Trails road-Washington to Los An geles and the Old Spanish Trail Jacksonville to San Diego.
 The department of commerce mas compiled figures which show the au- tomotive industry has hopelessly out classed all other industries in dollar value Following are the figures: Automotive Industry ..s2, 2,S65, 900 000 petroleum ......... 2.050. 100000 Meat Packing ......... l,933, ,00o' ooo Foundry .............. 1900, 900, 900 Lumber and Timber =. l,675,0O000O Iron and Steel ........ 1,650, 100000 | Clothing ..,....... 1,530, ,000, 00O | Flour Mills ........... 1,275, 10000 | Cotton Goods ......... 1,250,000,oOV Roots and Shoes .. 100000, 900 ] These figures are based on the dol lar yalue of production for l922.