April 11, 1929: Soviet Marxist exile Leon Trotsky barred from Germany
April 11, 1929: Benito Mussolini changes Kingdom of Italy's coat of arms to incorporate the fasces, symbol of the Fascist Party
April 16, 1929: English occultist Aleister Crowley barred from France
The following events occurred in April 1929:
Monday, April 1, 1929
Industrialist William C. Durant addressed telegrams to 100 leading executives asking them if they agreed with the suggestion of the Federal Reserve Board that market prices of the securities of their companies were artificially high. "At a time when banking reserves of the country are in no way threatened, the Federal Reserve Board, by questioning the right of banks to loan on stock market collateral, is giving the public the impression that our best securities are selling above their market value", Durant wrote in the telegram. "It is my belief that the attitude of the Board, the method of handling and the thoughtless character of the publicity are most harmful to our business interests and threatening the prosperity of the country."[1]
In a special referendum in Wisconsin, almost two-thirds of voters approved repealing the state's prohibition enforcement act and legalizing 2.75% beer. The vote was not binding upon state lawmakers.[2][3]
Canada sent a note of protest to the United States over the sinking of the rum-running ship I'm Alone, saying the U.S. Coast Guard violated international law by shelling and sinking the ship.[8]
Citizens of the tiny German archipelago of Heligoland attacked the building of a local pro-German newspaper as they staged a demonstration calling for the return to British rule.[9]
Austro-Italian relations deteriorated over a football match after Austria defeated Italy 3–0 in Central European International Cup play. Italians complained that a sideways Hungarian flag was used to represent Italy and that the Austrian band played the wrong Italian song. Italian newspapers also accused the Austrians of unfair play and called for a refusal to float the country any new loans.[10][11]
The surviving crew of the rumrunner boat I'm Alone was released at the request of a U.S. District Attorney in New Orleans. No reason was given for the dismissal of charges.[15]
Wednesday, April 10, 1929
Fifty people were killed by tornadoes that swept through northern Arkansas.[16][17]
Max von Sydow, Swedish-born U.S. film actor, in Lund, Sweden (d. 2020)
Thursday, April 11, 1929
The German government refused to grant political asylum to Leon Trotsky.[4]
The Southern Cross
The four-man crew of the airplane Southern Cross was found alive and well east of Wyndham by search pilots, twelve days after the plane went missing above northwest Australia.[18][19]
Died:Enrico Ferri, 73, Italian criminologist and socialist
Saturday, April 13, 1929
The Young Commission handed Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht its proposal for the restructuring of reparations payments, which would have Germany pay $20–24 billion U.S. over 58 years. Schacht issued a statement that night saying the terms were unacceptable.[21]
On budget day in the United Kingdom a month ahead of a general election, Chancellor of the ExchequerWinston Churchill announced the abolition of the 325-year-old duty on tea, cutting its price by fourpence a pound. Overall taxes, however, were higher than the previous year.[4][22]
Tuesday, April 16, 1929
On Opening Day in major league baseball, Earl Averill made his major league baseball debut with the Cleveland Indians, going 1-for-4 with a home run to help defeat the Detroit Tigers 5–4 in 11 innings.[23] The Indians also became the first ballclub to wear player numbers on the backs of their jerseys; the New York Yankees would have shared that distinction if their game hadn't been rained out that day.[24][25]
France rescinded its permission to allow English occultist Aleister Crowley to live there and gave him 24 hours to leave the country. Crowley had been living abroad since becoming unwelcome in England after being branded a traitor for writing articles supporting Germany during the war. "The expulsion order and the slanderous articles on my character do not worry me. Magick is the sole thing in life and lifts the soul above petty annoyances", Crowley declared from his sick bed.[26]
Broadway singer Helen Morgan was acquitted by a federal jury on a charge of violating liquor laws.[28]
Nearly 100 masked men destroyed the headquarters of the National Textile Workers Union in apparent retaliation for its support of the Loray Mill Strike.[29]
A Maddux Air Lines passenger plane collided in midair with a U.S. Army plane near San Diego, California. A total of six people were killed.[32]
Monday, April 22, 1929
In a speech to an Associated Press luncheon in New York, President Herbert Hoover declared that crime was the nation's most serious problem, warning of "the possibility that respect for law as law is fading from the sensibilities of our people", and that "life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any other civilized country in the world."[33][34]
The Japanese steamship Tokyo Kuni Maru sank after striking rocks off Cape Erimo in southern Hokkaido; two steamers arrived in time to rescue 97 survivors but over 100 others were believed drowned.[35][36]
Canada agreed to arbitration with the United States in the I'm Alone sinking.[19] The case was finally resolved in 1935 with a compensation settlement for the crew.[38]
A crowd of 10,000 Belgian, British and French war veterans dedicated a monument in Steenstrate, Belgium on the fourteenth anniversary of the first poison gas attack in that Flanders village.[42]
^"Are Stocks Too High? Durany Asks Leaders; Hits Reserve Board". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 1, 1929. p. 1.
^"Wisconsin Votes to Repeal Its Dry Laws". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 3, 1929. p. 1.
^"Wisconsin Votes 2 to 1 To Repeal State Dry Enforcement Laws". Brooklyn Daily Eagle: 1. April 3, 1929.
^ a b c d e f g hMercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. pp. 376–377. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
^"Duce in Accord with Chamberlain on Europe's Policies". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 2, 1929. p. 2.
^Owen, Bernard; Rodriguez-McKey, Maria (2013). Proportional Western Europe: The Failure of Governance. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-137-37437-0.
^"20 Killed, 59 Injured in Roumanian Train Wreck". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 5, 1929. p. 1.
^"Report Canada Charges U. S. Broke Treaty". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 6, 1929. p. 2.
^"Austria national football team: record v Italy". 11v11. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^"Italy, Austria Lose Temper Over Soccer". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 13, 1929. p. 1.
^"India Assembly in Panic as Reds Throw 2 Bombs". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 9, 1929. p. 1.
^Bradley, Edwin M. (1996). The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 Through 1932. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-7864-2029-2.
^Holston, Kim R. (2013). Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-7864-6062-5.
^"I'm Alone Crew Freed by Order of Prosecutor". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 9, 1929. p. 1.
^"Tornado Death Toll Mounts to 50 in Arkansas". Chicago Daily Tribune: 4. April 12, 1929.
^Myers, Jack (April 12, 1929). "Southern Cross Found; Report Crew Safe, Well". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 5.
^ a b c d e"Year End Review – 1929". CanadaGenWeb.org. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta (1997). Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-520-92615-8.
^"Berlin Delegate Rejects Allied War Debt Bill". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 14, 1929. p. 6.
^"Britain Ends 300 Year Tea Tax; Vote Bate". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 16, 1929. p. 1.
^"Earl Averill 1929 Batting Gamelogs". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^Schindler, Kevin. "Indians are First Major League Baseball Team with Uniform Numbers". Suite.io. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^"Were the Yankees Really the First Baseball Team to Regularly Wear Uniform Numbers?". Sports Urban Legends Revealed. November 23, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^Allen, Jay (April 17, 1929). "France Expels Spy Who Says He Put U. S. In War". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 23.
^Beim, George; Ruth Stevens, Julia (1998). Babe Ruth: A Daughter's Portrait. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-4616-2538-4.
^Pettey, Tom (April 19, 1929). "Helen Morgan Freed on Rum Charge". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
^Yellen, Samuel. American Labor Struggles. (New York: Harbor Press, 1936), p. 304
^Hinckley, Jim (2012). The Route 66 Encyclopedia. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-61058-688-7.
^"Rick Ferrell 1929 Batting Gamelogs". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^Bradley, Edwin M. (1996). The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 Through 1932. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-7864-2029-2.
^Somer House, Ann (April 29, 1929). "Allies Raise Shaft to First Victims of Gas". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
^"Mussolini Takes Eighth Jov in His Own Cabinet". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 30, 1929. p. 3.
^"Mexican Rebel Generals Seek Asylum in U.S.". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 30, 1929. p. 12.
