European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday february 4, 1950 i isl v m no income tax cuts in sight Martin says scoffs at forecast of $12,000 income Baltimore feb. 3 a rep. Joseph w. Martin jr., a Mas House Republican Leader has predicted that there will be no cuts Lor Many years. He sharply criticized red Ink spending of die democratic administration and pointed out that thelast income tax reduction was passed by a Republican Congress in 1948over three presidential vetoes. I make the prediction today he said in an address for the Advertis ing club of Baltimore that that tax reduction will stand for Many Yeasas the last income tax reduction enacted by an american he attacked As benefiting no one the inflation program now clearly mapped out and said president Truman s prediction of �12,000 aver age income in the year 2000 did t calculate what the Dollar would then be Worth. If the purchasing Power of the american Dollar Falls off As much in Pijie nest 50 years As it has in thelast 50, it will be Worth about 18 cents he declared. The �12,000 income for each family will represent �2,160 in 1939 purchasing Power. Truman gets new counsel Washington feb. 3 a president Truman has changed Law s. Murphy 40, a North carolinian was sworn in As $20,000-a-year special counsel to the pres Tom Clark of the supreme court administered the oath in or. Truman s m. Clifford 43, who re signed the Post to enter private practice in Washington looked on. Cabinet and Congress members White House employees mrs. Murphy and beaming 9-year-old Westbrook Murphy one of the three Murphy children also were on s Home is at Wallace n. C. He has been serving As a $15,000adjministrative assistant to the pres Iden the president expressed pleasure that so Many attended the ceremony and promised the guests that i necessary he would ask Murphy to help get them out of jail if they got in trouble. Trustees Block slide threatening prison Petros tenn., feb. 3 up More than 750 prisoners were saved from a possible flood yesterday when trustees blocked t Gigantic Avalanche before it reached a Rainy swollen Creek near the Brush Mountain state prison Camp. The landslide of dirt and buried junk burst from atop Brushy Moun Tain Ridge. Destroying two Coal min inclines it tumbled a half mile Down the sleep slope toward the Camp its Vit i Power Plant and the Creek before volunteers stopped i with hastily built the Creek was bulging from Al most a solid month of rain. Had the mass of Earth and old timbers slowed into the Creek it might have dammed it sent millions of Gallons of water sweeping through the Camp. Jimmies Church with Cross Cincinnati feb. 3 up Large Gold Cross was removed from the Auar of a Emmanuel evangel ical Cin used a Jimmy by a burglar who ransacked the Church police reported. . Budget slashed by Dewey Albany feb. 3 a born horrifies Hiroshima mayor Tokyo feb. 3 up it gives me the Shivers the mayor of Hiro Shima said can wipe out 1,000,000 people at once. This is the most horrible thought that Ever came Injo my mind mayor Shinzo Hamai said in reaction to president Truman s Hydrogen bomb announcement you came to mayor said in a Hiroshima the Telephone inter View. You Sav the people of Mycity covered with radiation Burns wrapped in bandages and still dying from the terrible blast. You saw Rny City levelled think How those of us who lived through that blinding Flash feel anyhow we fear the War with Hydrogen can Only Pray that neither the old atomic bomb nor the new Hydrogen will Ever be used said the latest tabulation of missing and dead in Hiroshima from the single a bomb dropped on the City by the . In 1945 was close to 100,000. House oks Cotton Bill Washington feb. 3 up the House has passed and sent to the Senate a Bill intended to Correct alleged inequities in this year s Cotton control program by per mitting growers to Plant an Addi Tiona 1,400,000 acres
