AUTOMOBILE PARKING MACHINE

Hailed as a possible solution of the serious automobile parking problem on busy city streets, engineers of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company recently exhibited an unusual and unique automobile parking machine that they have just developed. It is shown on our cover.

Entering this new type of storage garage, a motorist can drive his car onto a platform, pull a lever, obtain a check, and the car is automatically whisked upward out of sight. The device immediately places another empty platform at ground level ready for another car.

When ready to leave, the motorist can push a button corresponding to his check, and his car is delivered to him at ground level almost immediately, without any of the ordinary vexatious garage delays.

MAYA CITIES FOUND BY LINDBERGH

In five days of flying over unmapped areas of Mexico, Guatemala, and British Honduras, Col. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh and Carnegie Institution of Washington scientists have carried on archaeological reconnaissance that, if it could be done on the ground, would require eight years of mule-back travel. Using a large amphibian in which Col. Lindbergh has been pioneering the new international routes of the Pan-American Airways, many miles of bush and dense jungle were searched from the air for signs of ruins of Maya cities, hitherto unknown to science.

The four ruined Maya cities discovered give a better conception of the line of growth of the ancient Maya civilization.

They lie in a line stretching northeastward from the Old Empire region of the Maya located largely in what is now the state of Guatemala, where the civilization emerged about the time of Christ. The newly found ruins connect this older area with the New Empire region, on the north end of the Yucatan peninsula. Chichen Itza is the outstanding example of this New Empire Culture.