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Characterizing the mounting toll of traffic fatalities as "largely an after dark increment," Val J. Roper, engineer in charge of automotive lighting of the General Electric Company, advocated an increase from 30 to 50 watts in the brilliance of headlight, in an address at the Burean for Street Traffic Research yesterday...
...study reveals the inadequacy of present head-lighting for drivers observing moderate and legal speeds," he said. "It is clear that under existing headlamp regulations they cannot always see safely." Adjustment of the regulations to permit higher candle power would contribute toward the, reduction of traffic accidents at night, Roper stated...
Oneway roads are the ideal solution to the night-time traffic problem but Roper doubted that they were practically possible during the present generation...
DANIEL C. ROPER Secretary of Commerce...
...afternoon of Jan. 10 it ordered out of the air a Lockheed 14H, at 10 a. m. next day released a general order grounding all 14Hs. But TIME regards the question as of slightly less consequence than it seems to be regarded by Northwest Airlines and Reader Roper...