The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-13
The Motor Digest

An automobile highway is under | construction in Honduras which will stretch from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific.
 champion of America, with 1.sS2 points: Jimmy Murphy. who scored | 1850. Is second.
 Production of gasoline last year an. .ounted to 7,500,00o,0o gallons. the greatest output in the history of the country.
 l ing slot machines with necessities. For a man there is e clean collar or a handkerchief. A woman can buy .ipstick or 6 powder puff. The health department of Balti- more, Md, is making a survey of ga- rages, private and public, to deter arrangements The examinations will be made to prevent. as far as possible, deaths from carbon mon- oxide.
 Two billion fact of lumber was 1 consumed in the automobile industry ] in the United States last year. Be- sides body construction. large Quan- titles of wood were used in shipping, crating and blocking cars and trucks, and for crating various parts. Based on the 1914 dollar as a stand ard, it Is possible to get more auto
 
 | than 1t was 10 years ago. Today one can purchase III cents worth of au- tomobile, 101 cents worth of gaso- | line, and 123 cents worth of tires with his 1914 dollar.
 Australia is again attempting to place on tho market an "All-Australia automobile" Its unusual features in clude an engine located midway be- tween the front and rear wheels, chain drive to the rear end, an entire l absence of frame, and a body con- structed of ply wood glued and sewn together.
 Among the noted auto speed drivers who met their death on race tracks last year was "Howdy" Wilcox. a fast and daring man "Howdys" end came on the 117th lap of the Altoona classic for s24.ooo, when his car skidded and overturned Jimmy Hirsch. . fine driver. was killed at
 Ernest R Ball. a New York song writer, recently, was presented a magnificent white hearse by the po- lice. who assured him it was his one time limousine, stolen months ago. Detectives found the hearse in the garage of a Manhattan undertaken, who had unwittingly purchased 1t from thieves, who had. put 8 hearse body on the chassis of Balls limou- sine.
 In Italy, the international automo- bile race for the Florin cup will be held on April 27. It will be followed on May by a speed test of S9O kilo- meters over the circuit of Trapani. for which 6o,00o lire in prizes as well as cups and medals will be given. On May il the Misena cup race is to be run for 25,oo0 lire in prizes. Several important French cars arc expected to participate in the races.
 A1fhnnah aaunral Nan ed the plan of requiring registration and certification of motor vehicle titles to curb the automobile thief. the Connecticut motor vehicle depart ment does not approve of this sys- tenn. The reason given is that 1t de- veracity of the person who makes the return to the state department, and honor iS not an outstanding trait of one who will steal car.
 The American Road Builders asso- ciation convention and show of 1924 VIII be held In Chicago January 14 to lS. This organization is the nations great clearing house for information In regard to highway industry. an Industry in which hundreds of nil Hons Of dollars are spent annually and which is now adding 10000 miles or surfaced roads to tho highway sys- tenn of the United States each year. as we'll as almost an incalculable mileage of unsurfaced highways.
 The Victory highway. to be dedi. cated in honor of the World war dead Is to be laid out between New York and San Francisco. The route will run south of the Lincoln highway for most of its length. and will be the shortest and most practicable course across the United States. The memo rial will permit each county that if crosses to honor it's own boys by placing their names upon monuments to be erected at each county crossed by the road. The monuments will he of uniform design-a bronze earIe guarding her young on a base of ce- ment, the whole about h feat hirh