Evening star., 1952-02-17
Daylight Saving
Due for Ruling
By Senate Unit
Perennial Bottle
Moy End in Usual
SingIe-Yeor Plan

- MI u0u
The perennial battle over day
light saving time for Washing
ton probably will come up for a
decision by the Senate District
Committee at a session scheduled
for Tuesday afternoon.
At the same meeting the group
is expected to tackle the much
newer but also stubborn question
of whether to recommend con-
f1rmation of an old Kansas City
political crony Of President Tru-
man, Earl Wayne Beck, as District
Recorder Of Deeds.
These are among more than a
dozen widely different problems on
the agenda for the committee ses-
sion called by Chairman Nicely.
The city heads tomorrow are
expected to submit their annual
proposal that they be allowed to
decide each year if Washington
should go on Daylight Saving
time along with other large
Eastern cities. Chairman Nicely
planned to introduce the bill as
soon as it arrives SOFT can come
up at the Tuesday meeting.
Past Is Recalled.
If history repeats itself, the
committee and the Senate will
approve the measure but the
House, under the urgings of the
farm bloc, reluctantly will approve
q one-year-more plan, insuring
that the issue be fought out each
year in Congress.
Under the bill, Daylight time
would begin here the last Sunday
In, April, If the legislation is en-
acted by then. and would run
to the last Sunday next Sep
tember.
The Beck nomination for the
$3.50 recorders post, has been
pending before the District Com
nittee since last September. The
committee twice refused to vote
Tor confirmation, partly because
If the attitude displayed by Mr..
Beck on the witness stand.
Thereafter. action was with
aeld pending a field inquiry at
Kansas City conducted by two
committee agents, Committee
Counsel Gerhart P. van Arkel and
Robert Albrook, aide to Repub-
ican Senator Case of South
Dakota.
Report Is Studied.
Their report, which includes
findings on the 1910 retirement"
If Mr.. Beck as superintendent of
he jackson County (Moo Home
.or Negro Boys and Girls. his
management qualifications and
temperament. now is being studied
~ District Committee members.
Mr.. Beck's chances for con-
irmation were believed improved
after the Kansas City inquiry but
yesterday some sources said atl
east one member of the District
Committee was continuing his
objection. One reason given was
hat Mr.. Beck, in testifying be-
fore the committee last Fall, had
not been frank" on some points.
Another member Of the COM
mittee repeated yesterday that
the District recorders job should
be awarded to some qualified COL
ored resident of the District
not to some one from a distant
State.
There was no clear showing
yesterday however. how the ma
jority Of the District Committee
would vote.
Other Issues Listed.
Among other questions, the Dis
trict Committee Tuesday is toI
take up President Truman's NOM
nation Of two members of the
Municipal Court of the District.
One is that of Judge John James
Malloy, now serving under a re-
cess appointment. The other Isl
the reappointment of Judge
Thomas D. Quinn.
In addition to this, the COM
mittee is to take up a dozen
relatively minor bills which have
been approved by subcommittee.
Among these are measures ITO
permit the commissioners to ap-
point special police to guard pri-
vate properties, at the expense
Of the property owners; to mod
ernize the school teacher retire
ment system; to authorize a. study
Of the location and construction
OF a new bridge over the Potomac
River; to secure the attendance
Of nonresident witnesses in Grim
ina1 proceedings here; and to
permit the Board of Education
to employ up to Is retired vet