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April 13, 1936

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Headlines from April 13, 1936

EASTER PARADE GAY WITH NEW FASHIONS DESPITE DULL SKIES; Day Is Sunless and Shivery, but Color Flashes Out From Beneath Heavy Wraps.

By Kathleen McLaughlin

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NORTH CHINA AREA TIED TO MANCHUKUO; East Hopei Will Enter Alliance With a Pledge of Japanese Army Aid Against Reds.

By Hugh Byas

East Hopei Autonomous Council to enter alliance with Manchukuo for common defense against Reds by Japanese army; Japanese also favor alliance with Hopei-Chahar Pol Council; Shansi officials estimate fatalities in anti-Red campaign; Reds in Yunnan Province active; Nanking Govt finances road to Tsinghai Province in move to save province for China

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Boy, 3, Is Dropped Into Policeman's Coat When Trapped by Fire in Sutton Pl. Area

By Unknown Author

A 3-year-old boy was rescued at 8:45 o'clock last night from a blazing apartment on the second floor of 430 East Fifty-eighth Street, near Sutton Place, when he was dropped from a window into a coat held by a patrolman and a passerby in the rear yard twenty feet below.

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Attempts to show similarity between Lindbergh ransom notes and P H Wendel's handwriting

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Mercer County grand jury calls on him to appear in Wendel inquiry

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1936Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek politician 129th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1876)^[†]

Konstantinos Demertzis was a Greek academic and politician. He was the 49th Prime Minister of Greece from November 1935 to April 1936. Demertzis died during his mandate, of a heart attack, on April 13, 1936.

Headlines from April 13, 1936

EASTER PARADE GAY WITH NEW FASHIONS DESPITE DULL SKIES; Day Is Sunless and Shivery, but Color Flashes Out From Beneath Heavy Wraps.

NORTH CHINA AREA TIED TO MANCHUKUO; East Hopei Will Enter Alliance With a Pledge of Japanese Army Aid Against Reds.

Boy, 3, Is Dropped Into Policeman's Coat When Trapped by Fire in Sutton Pl. Area

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