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' t1 i stss' si-- ' I - I - f'' - 1 ' 0 ss ' '' - ' i - : s ' ' ' i ' ' - - ' i ' " ( ' : ' 1 s- - ' '"'- -' ' s '' ' ' ' ''' t : - f' t' ) 4l : —it'':- : sls s s : ' k - ss irsi iamor - - : - s - s t- "' s-o- "' 4 - ' - ' s' - - sssss- ds—--sss—- i 'It 4 is : - - ' : ' '' s - N 0-- t the French government was likely in the Campaign Being Waged financial experts Many say they are convinced that a campaign is being waged by means of rumors and calculated leaks to weaken the pound and even more so the dollar Such an effort would be in keeping with the monetary policy of President Charles de Gaulle who has called for an end to the privileged positions of the dollar and the pound as reh serve currencies and Who advocates a return to a world monetary system based on gold The influential French newspaper le" Monde reported that France had refused st -- -- - ' ' legislation at news conference He tied tax need to pound devaluation ' ! for the last five months to make contributions to the working capital of the gold pool Record Gold Price - The pool comprises the United States Britain Belgium France Italy The Netherlands West Germany and Switzerland It was set up in 1961 after the gold price rose to a record $105 an ounce from its otticial price of $35 At the outset the pool had a working capital of 300 million dollars in gold for use when necessary to stabilize the price of gold in the London market Four-fifth- s is transacted of the world trading I in London In what was believed to be the first detailed newspaper account of this highly secret operation by the eight powerful central banks Le Monde's financial editor wrote that by the spring of 1966 the pool had used up its original capital and See Page 4 Column 1 r -- t in - ss- 1 On the Inside 1 Page Fags Business Classified Comics Editorials Foreign National Obituaries ss ' ' Pre5s Wirepttoto French Financial Sources Hint Withdrawal From Gold Pool near future to return to its practice of converting France's dollar holdings into gold on a large scale The two reports though not confirmed were consistent with the hostile atmosphere that has prevailed in Paris banking and government circles since the sterling crisis started 1 s —Associated Secretary of the Treasury Henry Fowler discusses need for new tax - ' - 1 (' i'' ' 'is s si 4: - '''''' - !'z :i s : 1( it ' t s t ' - ' - s '' ' - s A0 s - ' I ' ft - ' - ''''!:-'s- ' ' - 1: ' ' 'Is' t ' ': t 4 4 ''' - ' i I k '' t ! V - I i - f-- i :' ' I s ''' ' ' ' 1 '' !I ' — ' :''- ''' ' - " t s ' ' 1 ' " s ' ' '' -- t '!I ' '' ' t price index and reports on the recent disaster and the Rep Taft said The TWA jet with 82 persons aboard had approached from the west turned south toward the landing corridor but clipped trees topping a hill that fronts the airport The jet roared at treetop height for a Two mile then fell into an orchard followed fire a and explosions leaving a charred jumble of wreckage It was only several hundred yards from the spot where an American Air lines jet smashed into the hillside Nov 8 ' 4 rs - out" A penny saved is a penny earned A dollar saved is an enormous temptation I 'I" - ' ' '' ' - ' - 'z' ' ' ''- ' ? '' '''" ' ' ' - ' Today's Chuckle ' I' ' 1 s In the markets the buoyant pound kept hard up against its official exchange By Henry Tanner ceiling With par value at $240 the Bank New York Times Writer of England set a new range of $238 to PARIS — French sources predicted $242 at which it undertakes to maintain the price Tuesday that France would formally deAlthough trading was heavy dealers clare her withdrawal from the London said there was no massive rush back into Gold Pool through which the central banks of eight major financial powers sterling (Copyright) have been channeling their efforts to stabilize world gold prices Other financial sources reported that ss (Copyright) ' - ''' - 4 '' - 011io Jet Toll Hits 66 Congressional Probe Urged s ' the Prime Minister Opening the debate Anthony Crosland president of the Board of Trade said the change in the exchange rate was solution to Britain's the only long-terfundamental disequilibrium that was universally acceptable to the international monetary community He estimated that devaluation by itself would add 2 to three per cent to the retail said the bill he signed was by far the best that had been passed to control air pollution but still was no "magic wand to wave and cleanse our skies" He said the act would provide more funds to combat air pollution during the next three years than the United States had spent on that problem in its entire' losses in the 20 days of fighting around Dak To have been put at 246 dead and 860 wounded Ndisth Vietnamese casualties in the Dak To fighting were put at 1413 by the US Command Hanoi broadcast a conimendation from the Viet Cong military command ' - 1 - t - r ' 4 - I - Conservatives cheered as MacLeod at sat down and chanted "out out He US ss -' s '404 lI 70!'''''--T" -- Turning to Prime Minister Harold Wilson MacLeod said: "He has not only devalued the pound He has devalued his word and he hag betrayed his high office It is time for him to get out" towns" Broadcast Cheers Reds ' i ional monetary system" - anoth- ' ! s N s1" 1 of the Exchequer James Callaghan interjected: "There is no one I know of who does not accept that this affair has been conducted in a manner which has done the minimum damage both to this country and to the internat- York Times Service WASHING'rON — President Johnson signed the Air Quality Act of 1967 Tuesday and warned of fearful consequences if air pollution was not stopped "Either we stop poisoning our air" he said at a ceremony in the White Ifouse "or we become a nation in gas masks groping our way through dying cities and a wilderness of ghost The bloody fighting on Hill 875 has left er The California rains brought the fall to more than three inches in 24 hours at Los Angeles Falls of more than 1 ea were recorded at other stations in the state The showers were expected to lessen during the night and on Wednesday Heavy rains soaked some of the south Birmingham Ala getting more than an inch and Tupelo Miss nearly an inch r 4'' Chancellor New strikes fe ' s' V t 1 ) 6 The ridge line apparently was almost as high as the crest and was the dominant position on the hill three miles from the Cambodian border Reporting from the battle scene Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett said the assault on the ridge line was preceded by repeated US bombing at least troops around Dak s '' t '' - ':' ' ' - ' ' - - s - - ra The Tory critic spoke of a "horrifying and story of bungling incompetence" "really criminal delay" in announcing devaluation once the Cabinet had agreed 'Air Quality Act' Gets LBJ Okay Wyoming i - ' the money devaluation comes back" MacLeod said "but we have to pay the cost of devaluation and perhaps we have lost for good something like 150 million pounds (formerly about 420 million dollars now about 360 million no excuse for such dollars) dispatch said the fighting has "opened the path to victory in the present dry season" It declared nearly 1300 of the allied soldiers had been killed or wounded and 13 aircraft shot down Arnett reported the North Vietnamese were dug in on a high ridge line running from the crest of the hill and that their bunker positions were as close as 25 yards from the paratroopers SAIGON i 1 ' ' - "Following To Associated Press Writer By Associated Press Fresh snowfalls made driving hazardous in parts of the west Tuesday Maryland has its first general snow of the season Heavy local rains soaked southern CINONNA'rl 4i i MacLeod asserted that 300 million pounds (840 million dollars) had been spent supporting sterling from the !no-ment of the Cabinet's decision was taken at lunch time Thursday Nov16 Devaluation of 14 and three-tenth-s per cent from $280 was announced Saturday night year Ill for the Communist By Edwin Q White i ' ' At Minimum Damage - ' 4 ' t i Cost of Devaluation d- ' Snow the as he - ' - - I 4 ' ' ' V e-- ' I Ztfi-Da- Mostly White pounds had been spent supporting the sterling price in the past two weeks The sum was equivalent before devaluation to $2800000000 which would 1 have been virtually all the $2810000000 in Britain's published gold and foreign t! currency reserves at the end of October Dealers doubted MacLeod's figure " They said it was impossible to tell how i much the Bank of England had spent on t -- support Moreover- - they noted that the 1 bank could call on a billion dollars in credits from the Bank for International 1 Settlements and $1350000000 in "swaps" with the United States Federal Reserve $ System (D-NY- Yanks Take Crest of Hill 875 s Battle 246 GIs Die in y Its Color— New — alone The total for this year will be over five million Since last year Mr Kennedy's body and those of his two young children have been moved to the permanent $1400000 memorial setf among boxwood and flowering trees !leads of state of other nations have come and left flower wreaths of respect and honor In New York a spokesman for Mr Kennedy's widow said she and her children would leave Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with her family at Newport RL A spokesman for Sen Robert said he would ) F Kennedy spend death t tr gust ar Weather Shows billion The administration has put controllable programs at only about 21 billion dollars out of the 135 billion dollar total : Mass to Mark Kennedy's Death WASHINGTON opening The London gold price critic charging that one E mates" divid smartly held at its dolceiling of $351978 on "very good" demand dealers said In the House of Commons a two-da- y debate on devaluation opened with Ian MacLeod Conservative Party financial lar - Seclusion for Jackie - the field at Dollar Ceiling —Mostated Press WIrephoto visitors stand in the cold of Arlington National Cemetery Tuesday to view the grave of former A few rising see-sa- being marked down at s 4' s ion-pound s as 4 d'' : z ' 0 ' - : t - of : i WASHINGTON — Two high officials and several members of Congress indiSchultze also pointed out that in some cated Tuesday that the administration programs such as would propose expenditure reductions of farm subsidies and grants to the states about four billion dollars next week to for medical aid expenditures are now esbill from the timated higher than in January He despring loose a clined to say what the new budget total House Ways and Means Committee But no source answered the question! would be pending appearance next week before the Ways and Means Committee Four billion dollars from what? The One bit of evidence Tuesday was an level of the budget now has so many unknowns Including the cost of the war in apparently reliable congressional report Vietnam that there was no clue Tuesday that the four billion reduction would be i i on what the final spending figure will be evenly between domestic after the reductions are made portion of programs and the the defense budget In January the estimate was 135 billion dollars in the regular or "adminis- Beyond that details were still lacking trative " bud g et and the new figure after pending appearance next week of the top administration financial officials before the cuts may or may not be lower than the Ways and Means Committee that -- -Tuesday's main event in the wake of Budget Director Charles L Schultze revival of chances for the tax bill Montold a reporter that "so far as controllable programs are concerned the reduc- - day with announcement of the Ways and See Page I Column 1 ti ons will be below the January esti- - was LONDON — The devalued pound ' 4 " By Edwin L Dale Jr New York Times Writer an immediate hit in its debut on the for-eign exchange market Tuesday It "kept knocking on the top all day" as one dealer put it and closed at its ceiling of $242 in spirited trading The heavy demand squeezed speculators who scrambled to borrow scarce sterling to cover their "short" sales of last week — that is the sale of sterling they did not own Stock market prices were on a multimill- s sssss s WOW tr- --- ss - - Approval of Tax Hike Bill By John M Lee New York Times Writer ' o- Gains Okay ) 1 liiiliut Could Bring $4 1 sss ss t : T 1 I Price Sterling I Iss-- ss issats i i 4 tr : me0m7oppo7— 7 - ' i S sssss- - : - - n I 101P10101E - - ' ? t -' '? iI 411mmilankthAm- ' - 3- 111 I — le— -" ' ': - I to Slash tudget ' 11 s 'S Po nd iii ritish ) fi a A- ' : ' f'': '' °:1--- P i a isn k 0 g: -- 1 r1 '' I F — - -- ' ' - '"j 1 V- - ' L ' : : : I A I t : 4 1 I' A ' " ' I 4 4 I - 1647 1 20 10 5 1 67 21 Society Sports Star Gazer 9 '' 21-2- 3 29 1 18 15 13 Television Theaters Valentino Washington s :i 2 p I 1 J |