House Passes New Bill Extending Rent Control Through December; Additional Aid to Mexico Granted

WASHINGTON, May 1--The House passed a bill tonight continuing rent control but not the way President Truman wanted it done. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, authorizes landlords to rails rent 15 percent in return for a two-year lease if the tenant agrees.

It exempts now houses and apartments and any houses which have not been rented in the last two years. And it continues the Federal rent control only until December 31, with authority for the President to extend this to March 31, if he finds it necessary. Mr. Truman had requested a full year's extension beyond June 30, when the present act expires.

The new measure bars the federal government (but not states) from enforcing the rent control in any city, town or county where the local government decrees they are not needed.