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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
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Slovak Refugee Leader's
Bomb Assassin Hunted
MUNICH, Germany, July <
UP). —A dark-haired foreigner
with a Slavic accent was identi
fied by West German police to
day as the bomb assassin of
Matus Cernak, anti -Communist
Slovak refugee leader and World
War □ collaborator with the
Nazis.
The 50-year-old Minister of
Culture in wartime Slovakia,
who became a foe of Czecho
slovakia’s present Red govern
ment, was blown to bits when a
2',2-pound parcel addressed to
him exploded in a Munich post
office yesterday.
An aged German housewife
also was killed instantly. Thir
teen other bystanders were in
jured. two of them critically.
Police said “political motives”
presumably were behind the
mailing of the bomb parcel. Mr.
Cernak headed the National
Council of, Slovakia, which refu
gees established here in recent]
years to campaign for Slovakia i
independence from the Prague
Communist regime and integra
tion in a. United Europe.
Mr. Cernak fled to the Ameri
can zone of Germany in 1947
after serving a two-year sen
tence for collaborating with the
Germans.
Offering 5,000-mark ($1,190)
reward, police announced today
that the bomb had been mailed
to Mr Cernak last Monday from
Frankfurt by “a man with dark
hair, oval face, age 40-45, middle
height, .who spoke broken Ger
man with a Slavic accent.”
Shenanigans in Spending
Foreign Aid Charged
By the Associated Press'
Senator Mansfield, Democrat
of Montana, accused the Eisen
hower administration today of
"incredible shenanigans” in con
nection with the foreign military
aid program.
Saying he will seek a thorough
Investigation by Congress, Sen
ator Mansfield said the Defense
Department on a single day had
obligated for spending—a book
keeping transaction—more than
half a billion dollars in past for
eign aid appropriations not yet
spent. He said this occurred
June 30, the last day of the 1955
fiscal year.
There was no immediate com
ment from the Defense Depart
ment
Both the House and Senate
wrote into the new foreign aid
authorization bill a restriction to
forbid the administration from
carrying over into this fiscal year,
which started July 1, more than
S2OO million of aid money voted
in past years but not spent or
obligated by midnight June 30.
Explains “Maneuver”
Senator Mansfield said in an
interview the “maneuver” of
obligating this amount—ear
marking the money for specific
military items to be bought in
the future—has the legal effect
of spending the money, even
though it may not actually be
paid out for months or even
years.
The practice of deadline
spending by Government agen
cies, usually on a smaller scale,
has been a subject of congres
sional criticism for years.
Senator Mansfield said the
amount obligated last Thursday
was $575 million and that this
was more than half the total
amount earmarked during all
of June. He said the Defense
Department thus gained author
ity to carry the $575 million into
the present fiscal year and
avoided the congressional order
for a turnback of all except
S2OO million on hand.
Senator Mansfield, a foreign
relations committeeman, said
last Thursday's transaction
“amounts to nothing more than
deliberate shenanigans, incred
ible shenanigans practiced on
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The bomb's explosion shat
tered the lobby of the post office
in suburban Schwabing and
ripped apart the writing desk on
which Mr. Cernak was opening
the parcel.
He had appeared at the post
office after receiving a routine
notice from postal authorities
that a parcel and a registered
letter awaited him.
His identity was established
after detectives found bits of his
personal papers. The explosion
had ripped off his arms an(
mangled his torso.
the American people and on
Congress.”
Meeting Set Today
“The Defense Department," he
said, “apparently thinks it can
avoid an express prohibition of
Congress by the pretense of obli
gating huge amounts of aid
money on the last day of the
fiscal year and then, if it so de
sires, unobligating the same
amount later and keeping it
lying around available for some
future time.”
A Senate - House conference
committee on the foreign aid
authorization bill arranged to
meet today in an effort to iron
out minor differences in the two
bills. Senator Mansfield Indi
cated it was too late for any
further action on this bill.
But the authorization must be
followed by a separate bill to
appropriate the actual funds,
and Senator Mansfield said the
Appropriations Committees "will
demand not only an explanation
o £ how all this money came to
be obligated right at the dead
line but also a thorough inves
tigation of this incredible she
nanigan.”
President Eisenhower asked
about $3.5 billion for foreign aid
spending in the new fiscal year.
The House passed an authoriza
tion of $3,285,000,000; the Sen
ate about $139 millions more.
Irish General Named
Governor of Bermuda
LONDON. July < (A 5 ).—A 53-
year-old soldier from northern
Ireland. Lt. Gen. Sir John Wood
all, is the new governor of Ber
muda.
The Colonial office announced
today Sir John would succeed Lt.
Gen. Sir Alexander Hood, whose
retirement was announced in
April.
Sir John Woodall also will be
commander in chief of the
British army’s Bermuda garrison.
Fire Bird Starts Blaze
DETROIT UP). —Charles Wal
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S3OO after a bird picked up a
lighted cigarette and deposited
it in its nest in his garage.
Soviet Reports
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