September 11, 1963

troops remove students from 5 more Saigon hss to prevent new protests; arrest about 100; total arrests in 4 days put at 2,400; Govt presents 2 girls at news conf, says they are Vietcong agents

Swan-Finch Oil Corp: Res sentenced to 6 mos and $15,000 fine each; get added 2 1/2-yr suspended terms and put en 3-yr probetion; freed pending appeal; again deny wrongdoing; Batkin gets same sentence; Yaffe gets 1-yr suspended sentence and 3-yr probation; Grande fined $15,000, put on 3-yr probation

Pres Kennedy issues Exec order in effect halting draft of married men; puts married men 19-26 in lowest pool of 1-A classification; list of pools by priority of induction

Drs S Archer and A S Keats rept on new synthetic drug, pentazocine, as potent as morphine in pain relief but nonaddictive, s, Amer Chem Soc; drug developed by Sterling-Winthrop Research Inst

HR Ways-Means Com approves modified version of Adm program, cut to take effect in 2 steps starting in Jan, amt to $8.75 billion for individuals, $2.31 billion for corps, avg of 20% cut for former; corp rate would be 50% in '64, 48% in '65; Repub Reprs Baker and Knox vote to rept out bill but reserve right to oppose it on floor; com rejects Repr Byrnes amendment to tie '65 cut to Fed spending ceiling; approves Mills substitute that 'sense of Cong' is that bill aims to spur econ so that revenues therefrom may be used 1st to reduce budget deficits, then natl debt; Kennedy attacks Byrnes proposal as 'resting natl welfare on game of chance,' s, Business Com for Tax Reduction in '63; urges bill's enactment as 'recession ins,'