Show OIL CODE TEETH MAY BE FILED Roosevelt Asks Congress to Tighten Control Program WASHINGTON May 23 P JP P President dent Roosevelt asked congress to tighten up the oil control program at athis this his session In a letter to Chairman Logan of the senate mines committee and Chairman Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- man Rayburn Raburn of the house interstate commerce committee the president asserted asserted as as- that illegal production of oC oil oils is s threatening the structure of the newly organized oil production control control control con con- system His letter follows in n part partI I have received a from rom the administrator for lor the petro petro- leum eum industry the Hon Harold L. L Ickes ekes informing me of ot the continued dali dail daily production of oil in excess of 01 the he maximum amount determined on onby onby ony by y the administrator pursuant to authority au au- au under the petroleum code The administrator states that the records of the thc bureau of mines during durIn the he first three months of this year show how a daily dally average production o of illegal oil oU of ot barrels If the principle of prorating production production pro pro- under a code is to be main main- tamed it seems necessary toot that the ex cx- tiling sting law should be strengthened by bythe bythe the he pa passage sage of ot the bill which has been introduced in the senate by Senator Hiram Thomas Okla and in the house louse by Congressman Disney Okla and supported by the oil adminis- adminis I UI am frankly fearful that If it the law lawis is not strengthened illegal production will vill continue and grow in m volume and result in a collapse of oC the whole ture This will mean a return to the wretched retched conditions which ex existed ted in inthe inthe inthe the spring of 1933 1033 |