Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-23 | Page 1 | Revival of Oil Board Looms

REVIVAL OF OIL BOARD LOOMS a QUick i K Formation Predicted as Roosevelt Signs Con- Con i fr trot r- r Bill B i WASHINGTON F Feb b. b 23 JP iT-Im- P Im Immediate mediate revival o of the federal tender board oard a an agency gency for regulating for Texas interstate p petroleum shipments was predicted by oil a administration tion officials of of- today after President t. t Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt veil had signed into law the bill restoring restoring re re- re storing government control The president signed the bill last ni night ht a few hours after a conference report had been approved by the house and senate From the thc moment the law was signed officials said all interstate shipments o of contraband oil oU were liable to confiscation The law left it iL to the president to desi designate nat the enforcement a agency ency but bul officials said aId the board could be beset beset beset set up again In the time necessary to telephone officials now at the east Texas field Secretary Ickes dissolved the board after the thc supreme court decision holding holding holding hold hold- ing the control provision of the recovery recovery recovery ery act Invalid Officials ls said the board in Its two months months of of operations had ended contraband contraband contraband con con- shipments while trade reports reports reports re re- re- re ports placed contraband shipments last week at barrels