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Show WARMING UP AUTOS ' CREATES POISON GAS Industrial Board Warns Car Users of Dangers of Exhausts Given Off in Closed Garages. , Worning against the danger of "wanning "wann-ing up" automobiles in closed garages on cold mornings is issued by the state industrial in-dustrial roniniss(on. attention, to the risk being called in a circular received from the industrial accident, commission of Gali fornia. On this subject the circular eaya: Tt is customary for automobile drivers to run their engines for several sev-eral minutes with the car stationary in the saraye, as a warming-nn process. proc-ess. This is especially true in cold weather, when the tendency is to keep both windows and doors "of the ea-rage ea-rage closed. The exhausts given "off will sometimes pollute the room with ca rbon-monoxide in proportions sufficient suf-ficient to take human life. Few realize how quickly the human 1-odv succumbs to its effects, and instances , have been known where workmen i have been killed after breathing the funics of monoxide ga.s whirh had accumulated in Lhe garage. I On account of the fact that many applicants ap-plicants for automobile licenses and nmn-i nmn-i her plates for 1 r t s have a misunderstand -line: as to the fees charged for issuance, 1 the secretary of states gives the following j schedule of charges: Pleasure ear? up to ; twenty-five horsppower, 85: from twentv-j twentv-j five to fortv horsepower. Sfl : more than i forty horsepower, 1 1 r. ; ' ommrrial --r.rs a j (bit rate of $U-: motorcycles. ?4: niuinf. teurs, - i |