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April 13, 1932
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Headlines from April 13, 1932
11 Japanese Killed and 93 Hurt As Troop Train Is Blown Up
11 Japanese killed and 93 wounded when troop train from Fangcheng to Harbin is wrecked by explosion
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HOOVER AGAIN CALLS ECONOMY PARLEY WITH HOUSE GROUP; McDuffie Accepts Invitation for Today, in Which President Stresses One-Bill Program. HOUSE DEBATES PAY CUT Opposition Grows as Measure is Attached as Rider to Legislative Supply Bill. ITS DEFEAT IS PREDICTED Substitution of President's "Staggered Furlough" Plan Is Conjectured-Green Protests Slash. HOOVER AGAIN CALLS ECONOMY PARLEY: I
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Notable Births
1932Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (died 1976)[†]
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean Marxist and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A member of the Socialist Party of Chile, he fled from the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier accepted several academic positions in Washington D.C. after his exile from Chile. In 1976, agents of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Pinochet regime's secret police, assassinated Letelier in Washington in a car bombing. The agents had been working in collaboration with members of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, an anti-Castro militant group.