Show Y Hi ICKES PONDERS HELIUM SALES SALESI I W WASHINGTON April 19 UP Jp- Jp Secretary Ickes said today he was not satisfied yet that a pending contract for the sale of helium gas gaso gasto gasto to o the German Zeppelin company afforded proper protection against use of the gas for foreign military purposes Ickes discussed the proposed helium he he- hunt ium sale to Germany with President President dent Roosevelt and said as he left the he White House that the president had lad not given him any opinion I about the contract There are ere legal and practical questions that have to be resolved Before i I can express them in a contract Ickes said The state department he explained explained ex ex- had approved the proposed sale and had favored a bond without naming an amount to be furnished by the Zeppelin company as a guarantee that the noninflammable noninflammable noninflammable mable gas sold from Americas America's monopoly monopoly mo mo- supply would be used only for commercial aviation purposes Ickes said the Zeppelin firm finn had hac notified him it would not furnish a performance or penal bond |