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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 25, 1946

Page

4

Iceland Return for Ed Cleaver as Vice-Consul

Capt Edward B Cleaver a Coe College graduate and former Cedar Rapids Y M C A official will return to Iceland as vice consul and administrative assistant to the U S minister to Iceland He plans to study Icelandic history and political science at the University of Iceland and awaits American citizenship for his wife Dana Magnusdottir and adopted daughter Inga Hakonardottir The family will move after his army release and the move is supported by his Icelandic born wife who speaks Danish German and English.

Bob Estabrook Washington Iceland Edward B. Cleaver Coe College Cedar Rapids Cleaver The Medi Cal Suteor Reykjavik Dana Magnusdottir Duna Inga Hakonardottir United States Inga Dunga University of Iceland At Joplin

China Moves Capital Back to Nanking

In a crisis the Kuomintang government plans to proclaim on May 1 a capital transfer from Chungking to Nanking. Premier Soong and other leaders have flown to Nanking, with Chiang Kai-shek expected to arrive this weekend. The move appears to be accelerating despite earlier delays.

Kuomintang Party China Nanking Chinese Central News Agency Chungking T. V. Soong Chiang Kai-shek

Transfer Crisis Shapes Key Capital Moves in China

The text notes a crisis around a transfer and a jeep encounter involving Thompson and a soldier, with references to Czecho Slovakia and a lighter. It discusses Chungking remaining one of two auxiliary capitals along with Lianfu in northwest China, and Nanking’s return as the Kuomintang center, despite objections by the middle-of-the-road Democratic league favoring Peiping to confront the Communist issue and Soviet relations.

Thompson Roletisis Islovakia Chungking Lianfu China Nanking

Lighter lost in Czechoslovakia found at Atterbury

Paul Thompson of Indianapolis lost a cigarette lighter engraved with his name in Czechoslovakia while in a jeep. Recently, while standing in line to be discharged at Camp Atterbury the soldier ahead of him found the lighter.

Camp Atterbury Ind Paul Thompson Indianapolis Czechoslovakia

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