Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22

BELGRADE, Aug. 22-Amer-
lean Ambassador Richard c. Pat
terson set out by plane today for
Marshal Tito's headquarters near
the Austrian border to deliver the
United States ultimatum de-
manding release of American
flyers within 48 hours.
Tito summoned his No. foreign
relations expert, Gen. vladimir
Velebit, to be present at the meet
ing at Bled. With Gen Velebit,
Yugoslavia's deputy foreign min
lister, went Mnko Bruner, For
eign Office secretary. Gen. Velebit
attended the San Francisco confer
ence and is regarded as the Yugo-l
slav chieftain's top personal adj
wiser on foreign affairs.
Two United States Graves Regis
tration representatives, LIST LII
Charles o. Provow and Pvt. George
Demasi, went in Mr.. Patterson's
plane.
Allowed to Search Area.
Lit. ProvoW and Pvt. Demasi were
given permission to search the area
near Bled for the bodies of three
American Air Forces personnel be-
lieved to have been killed Monday
when a CAT transport was shot
down in flames. The wreckage was
reported found about miles inside
Yugoslavia from the Austrian Dor
der
Theodore Hohenthal, American
consul at Zagreb, was Informed to-
day by officials at Yugoslav 4th
Army headquarters in Ljubljana in
Northern YugoSlavia that no trace
had been found of two more Ameri-
can crew members of the CAT who
were seen to parachute from the
blazing plane. This information
added to fears that they may also
have been killed
Seven other Americans and three
on-American passengers Of an I'M
armed CAT transport, which was
forced to land by Yugoslav fighters
10 days earlier, still were held by
Yugoslav authorities.
veIebit in Patterson Plane.
Gen. Velebit left Belgrade for
Bled with Mr.. Patterson in the
American ambassadors special CAT
transport plane.
After the conference with the
Yugoslav chief of state, Mr.. Patter-
son arranged to fly to Geneva,
Switzerland, to refuel, and then pro-
coed to a meeting with Gen. Mark
w. Clark, commander of American
forces in Austria. Both CAT planes !
when they were forced down were
flying from Vienna, Gen. Clark's
headquarters, to Udine, Italy.
Mr.. Patterson's party included the
American Military Attache. Col
Richard Partridge. the assistant
Military Attache, 1t. Col Chester
M. Stratton, the Air Attache, 1t.
Col. Winton Close who piloted the
plane, and the Embassy's second
secretary, William Fraliegh.
Tried to Reach Wreckage. !
Mr.. Hohenthal reported that as
late as yesterday-tWo days after
the last CAT was shot down-Yugo-
slav officials at 4th Army headquar-
tiers told him they had heard moth
ing about the plane.
Mr.. Hohenthal then set out on his
own in an effort to reach the wreck
age. In a small village short dis
lance from the scene peasants told
him they had found some shoes
and Protestant and Jewish pray
err book near the scene of the crash.
Mr.. Hohenthal was going along
with Yugoslav military search
party again this morning.
Thus far not a single word had
appeared in YugoSlaV newspapers
concerning the attack and shooting
down of the second American plane.
The only references to the first in
cident of August in the Belgrade
press have been publication of the
original Yugoslav protest note about
planes flying over Yugoslavia, in
which the incident was mentioned,
and Marshal Tito's speech of Tues
day night.
In another sphere of Yugoslavia's
foreign relations, Foreign Office
spokesman announced that Isador
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