OBITUARIES OF PROMINENT YUGOSLAVS AND PARTY MEMBERS

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• Publication Date: June 29, 1953
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SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Biographic
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHLRE
PUBLISHED Zagreb; Belgrade
DATE
PUBLISHED 15 May 1952 - 2 Apr 1953
LANGUAGE Croatian; Serbian
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
DATE DIST. . ' Jun 1953
NO. OF PAGES 5
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
OBITUARIES OF PROMINENT YUGOSLAVS AND PARTY MEMBERS
f Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources_7
Lt Col Djordje Abramovic
It Col Djordje Abramovic, Yugoslav Army officer, was buried on 9 May 1952.
Colonel Abramovicwho had been retired from the Yugoslav Army in 1922 be-
cause of his progressive views, was among the first Partisans to participate in
the 13 July 1941 uprising in Montenegro. He was later captured by the Italians
and Chetniks, and was imprisoned until the surrender of Italy when he escaped
and joined the National Liberation Army. He remained on active duty with the
Yugoslav Army until he was retired in 1947. He was promoted to lieutenant colo-
nel for merit and bravery. Besides being decorated many times for previous serv-
ice gn World War 17, Colonel Abramovic had been decorated twice with the Order
of Valor and the Order of Service to the People.(l)
Milorad Milosevic, Editor
Milorad Milosevic, an editor of Borba and member of the Communist Party of
Yugoslavia, died in Belgrade on 21 June after a short illness.
Milosevic was born 2 March 1908 in Bela Palanka, Serbia. He graduated
from the gymnasium, and then graduated from the Law Faculty in Belgrade.
Milosevic began to write at an early age. In 1928 he was convicted for
writing an article inquiring into the sources of corruption, but was pardoned in
a later general amnesty. He continued to write for the local press, working as
a reporter for Belgrade newpapers. In 1935 he became a permanent resident of
Belgrade, where he worked on Osisani jez (Sheared Groundhog) until 1939. From
1939 to the beginning of'World War II, he was a law professor. During this pe-
riod he published several pamphlets on contemporary problems and on Hitler,
which were banned.(2)
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Lt Col Pane DJukic
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia has announced that Lt Col Pane
Djukic died in line of duty on 1 July, of wounds inflicted by a member of a
Bulgarian terrorist group. Djukic, a lieutenant colonel in the UDB (Uprava
drzavne bezbednoati, State Security Administration) and exemplary party member,
was mortally wounded on 30 June in a fight in Veliko Trnjane, Leskovac Srez.
Cedomir Stojkovic, a terrorist recently arrived in Yugoslavia from Bulgaria,
also was killed.
Colonel Djukic was bcrn 8 August 1922 in Kapljuh, Bosauski Pctrcvac Srez,
where he attended elementary school. He later learned the tinsmith trade in
Belgrade, Zemun, and Krusevac.
Before World War II Djukic worked in youth organizations. During the
occupation, he was a member of the rajon leadership of the SKOJ (Savez komu-
nisticke omladine Jugor,iavije, Federation of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia)
in Krusevac, where he was active in the formation of Partisan units. He was
accepted into the party in 1941 when he joined the Rasing Partisan Detachment,
where he served as an automatic rifleman, corporal, and then detachment com-
mander. He became ccmmander of the Basins Shock Battalion in 1943 and soon
thereafter deputy commander of the 3rd South Morava Brigade. In April 1944 he
became commander of the 16th Serbian Brigade.
After the liberation, DJukic commanded the Krusevac area, was chief of the
51st OZN (OdjelJenje zastite naroda, People's Defense Section, forerunner of the
LIDS) Division, served with the OZN of the First Army, and then with the UDB in
Serbia. In his work with the UDB Djukic was uncompromising with all enemies,
and displayed courage and resourcefulness in numberless actions in liquidating
remnants of Chetnik gangs.
In elections for the Constitutional Assembly in November 1945 Djakic, a nmi-
nee of the People's Front, was elected delegate to the assembly from Rasing Srez.
In March 1950 he was again elected delegate to the federal assembly.
DJukic had been decorated with the Remembrance of 1941 medal; the Order of
Valor: the Order of Service to the People, First Class; the Order of the Parti-
san Star, Second Class; the Order of Brotherhood and Unity, and the Order of
People's Hero.(3)
Maj Zdenko Sumanovac
Maj Zdenko Sumanovac of the Yugoslav Army died on 29 June, as a result of
injuries suffered when he struck his head against a wall while swimming.
As a student before World War II, Sumanovac was among those who fougtt
against the anti-people's government of prewar Yugoslavia. During the war, he
first worked in the rear areas, then joined the Partisans, and in 1946 was as-
signed to the UDB.
Major Sumanovac had been decorated with the Order of Service to the People,
Second Class; the Order of Valor; and the Medal of Valor.(4)
Panto Malisic, People's Deputy
People's Deputy Panto Malisic was buried on 2 August in Ivangrad.
Panto Malisic was born of a farm family in Peace near Ivangrad. While a
teachers school student before World War II, he belonged to the progressive
workers movement.
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From 1939 until his death Malisic was a faithful member of the Yugoslav
Communist Party. In 1941 he helped organize the uprising in his region. When
Berane ,ow Ivangra17 was liberated in 1941, he was elected president of the
first srez National Liberation Council generally organized in Yugoslavia.
Malisic had been awarded the Remembrance of 1941 medal and other decorations.
Following the liberation he was regularly elected a people's deputy to the People's
Assembly of Montenegro.(5)
UDB Capt Branko Vujovic was killed in a fight with a trio of terrorists
from Albania, who penetrated the Yugoslav-Albanian border at Tur,)ak near Peci,
at 2100 hours on 4 August, Leader of the trio was Adem Duska, an escapee from
Drenovac near Djakovica, who had fled to Albania with his father and brother in
1949. The terrorists were armed with Schmeissers, pistols, and bombs. The trio
then escaped into Albania.
Captain Vujovic, who was born in Zasada, Bileca Srez, was not yet 30 years
old. He was married and had one child. When he was 19, he began to work for
the National Liberation Movement as a member of the SKOJ. He had been decorated
with the Medal of Labor, Order of Valor, and the Order of Service to the People. (6)
Prof Dr Fran Remove, president of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sci-
ences, died after a long illness of a brain embolism at 0755 hours on 16 Sep-
tember.
Doctor Remove was born in Ljubljana on 14 September 1890. He studied con-
temporary literature, and Slovenian, German, and Rumanian philology at the uni-
versities of Vienna and Graz. Doctor Ramovs was one of the founders of the
Slovenian Jjuhljana?7 University which was established in 1918, and one of the
founders of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, which was established in
1935. He was the author of 5 books and more than 120 scientific treatises on the
Slovenian language.
In recognition of his work, Doctor Remove was made a corresponding member
of London University, the Polish Academy of Science, Prague Academy, the Serbian
Academy of Science in Belgrade, and the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences in
Zagreb. He had oeen decorated with the Order of Labor, First Class. He was made
president of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences on 19 May 1950.(7)
Maj Gen Milos Siljegovic
Maj Gen Milos Siljegovic was buried on 19 November 1952 with full military
honors. Because of serious illness in his family and because of his own chronic
illness General Siljegovic attempted suicide on 18 November 1952. He succumbed
to his wounds the same day in the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade.
Siljegovic was born in 1909 in Miljakovci near Prijedor. He completed
teachers school in Banjaluka and taught school from 1933 until World War II.
While a teacher, Siljegovic was active in the worker's movement. He joined the
Yugoslav Communist Party in 1940. He took a prominent part in organizing the
National Liberation uprising in the Kozara Mountains. When the 2d Regional
National Liberation Detachment was formed, he became a company commander. Soon
thereafter he became battalion commander. When the 5th Kozara Brigade was formed
in September 1942, Siljegovic became its deputy brigade commander, From 1943 un-
til the end of the war, he served as brigade commander in the 5th, 7th, and 11th
frontier brigades, becoming commander of the 11th Division in 1944. He
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served with these units in Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia, participating in final
operations prior to the liberation. In 1950 General Siljegovic graduated from
the Advanced Military Academy of the Yugoslav Army, and then became an instruc-
tor in the school.
Siljegovic had been decorated with the Order of the Partisan Star, First
Class; the Order of Brotherhood and Unity, First Class; the Order of Service
to the People, Second Class; the Order of Valor; and the Remembrance of 1941
medal. For postwar services in the army he was awarded the Order of the Mili-
tary Flag.(8)
Bogdan Bilbija, Newspaperman
Bogdan Bilbija, a Yugoslav journalist for many years, died on 8 January
1953 after a long illness.
Bilbija was born in Bosansko Grahovo on 16 August 1896. After completing
the gymnasium he studied philosophy. Bilbija worked as a journalist on the
Slobodna rev, Radnicka novina, Radnik, and Borba, until 1923. In 1925 he was
in Vienna as an assistant on the Balkanska federaclja. After returning to Yugo,
slavia he worked on various newspapers and periodicals, and from 1935 to 1940 he
was a member of the editorial board of Osisani jez. After the war Bilbija was
with TANJUG for some time and later became an editor of Borba.
In addition to his newspaper work, B11bija also translated foreign litera-
ture. He belonged among the most progressive newspapermen, and at one time was
a member of the honor court of the Association of Serbian Newspapermen and a
member of fit--7 supervisory council.(9)
Maj Gen Vo,jislav Dulic
Maj Gen Dr Vojislav Dulic died on 2 February 1953 after a brief illness.
General Dulic was born to a farm ferily or 12 May 1900 in Brezaae, Pozarevac
Srez. He attended elementary school in Prezane and completed secondary school
in Poza_evac. He later graduated from the Meiicsl Faculty in. Belgrade, and pra'-
ticed medicine in Fozarevac, Lazni_a?HomolJa, and Rav.-,a Gora near Kragujevac.
While a st,:dcrt in Belgrade, Dulic Vac active in the emr-rntic movement.
As a doctor he was active in organizing me-i11,1 Yid to cooperative farmers, and
fought reactionaries ir. the progressive i.rezr. Ir 1935 cry. 1936 he helped the
party, for which he was arrested and impr'--coned in 1937.
In 1941 General Dulic served. sr a do, ',o-. with the Drina Division in the de-
fense of Yugoslavia against German and Italian attack. After the defeat of Yugo-
slavia he returned to Ravna Gora; on 19 October 1941 he became an active fighter
in the Kragujevec Partisan Detachment, and later became its medical officer.
When the 1st Proletarian Brigade was organized General Dulic became medical of-
ficer of the 3d Battalion, and later had the same position with the 2d Proletar-
ian Brigade, the 2d Proletarian Division, and the II Corps. He became a member
of the Yugoslav Communist Party in 1942. In July 1944 he became chief medical
officer of the Main Serbian Headquarters. At the time when Serbia was almost
liberated General Dulic became commissioner of health for Serbia, and after the
liberation he held several responsible and high posts in the army medical service.
After the war Dalic served as deputy from Pozarevac Srez to the Serbian
People's Assembly. Dulic had been awarded the Order of the Partisan Star, Sec-
ond Class; Order of Service to the People, First Class; Order of Brotherhood
and Unity, First Class; the Order of Valor; Order of the National Army, Second
Class; and the Remembrance of 1941 medal.(10)
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Djoka Obradovic
Djoka Obradovic, a member of the Federation of Communists of Yugoslavia
(Savez komunista Jugoslavije), died on 9 February after a lengthy illness.
Obradovic was born in 1901 in Zabljak, Durmitor Srez. He joined the Na-
tional Liberation Army in 1941. Obradovic had been awarded the Order of Service
to the People, Third Class; the Order of Valor; and the Remembrance of 1941
medal.(11)
Uros Predic, Artist
Uros Predic, Yugoslav artist, died in Belgrade 11 February 1953. Predic
was born in Orlovat, the Vojvodina, in 1857. He graduated from the gymnasium
in Pancevo and studied painting in Vienna.
Most of Predic's subjects for his paintings were Serbians from the Vojvodina.
He realistically expressed the objective truth about the life he saw. Because
of this and the volume of his work, Predic ranks among the greatest artists of
Yugoslavia.(12)
Ivan Grandj
Ivan Grandj, long-time deputy of the federal People's Assembly and repre-
sentative of the Croatian People's Assembly, died on 31 March 1953 in the Dr
Josip Kajfes Hospital in Zagreb. Grandj will be buried in Zagreb on 2 April at
the expense of the state.
Ivan Grandj was born in 1879 in Sasinovec, Zagreb Srez. Grandj early be-
came a member of the Radic Party and was its representative for many years. He
was active politically in prewar Yugoslavia, and was active in Seljacka sloga
(Peasants' Unity).
Although his age prevented him from active participation in the National
Liberation War, Grandj gave moral and material aid to the war, and lost two eons
in the war. After the war Grandj was a member of the People's Assembly which
wrote the constitution, and president of the district and srez council of the
People's Front. He was later elected president of the Association of Farm Work
Cooperatives, and vice-president of the Main Cooperative Association of Yugo-
slavia.(13)
1. Zagreb, Borba, 15 May 52
2. Ibid., 22 Jun 52
3. Belgrade, Borba, 2 Jul 52
4. Belgrade, Politika, 2 Jul 52
5. Zagreb, Borba, 4 Aug 52
6. Belgrade, Politika, 6 Aug 52
7. Zagreb, Borba, 17 Sep 52
8. Belgrade, Politika, 20 Nov 52
9. Ibid., 9 Jan 53
10. Zagreb, Borba, 4 Feb 53
11. Belgrade, Politika, 10 Feb 53
12. Zagreb, Borba, 12 Feb 53
13. Ibid., 2 Apr 53
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