Turkish authorities removed fugitive businessmanSamuel Insull from his ship docked atIstanbul, brought him to court for a 15-minute hearing and then confined him to a hotel under guard.[1]
A message from Pope Pius XI published in a Cologne-based Catholic publication criticized Nazi propaganda as "pointing away from Christ back to paganism."[6]
A court inDuisburg, Germany ruled that "the Catholic press has no right to exist." The ruling was made in connection with an unfair competition lawsuit brought by a company that published several small Catholic newspapers against a rival Nazi paper that was accused of securing subscriptions through intimidation.[7]
Born:Jane Goodall, primatologist, in London, England
Romanian court sentenced three members of theIron Guard movement to life imprisonment for the murder of Prime MinisterIon G. Duca. However, 46 others were acquitted in a blow to the government.[9]
6,000 unemployed people rioted inMinneapolis. A parade of the jobless seeking an extension of theCivil Works Administration marched toCity Hall and sent in a committee to see the city council, but after word got out that the committee had been arrested the demonstration turned violent. Police moved in with tear gas and clubs and a total of 18 were injured, 13 of them law enforcement.[10]
Communists engaged in street fighting with members of the far-rightSolidarité Française in thePlace de l'Étoile district of Paris. Over 1,000 communists also battled police in the frontier town ofThionville.[13]
Pope Pius XI received 80 foreign correspondents at the Vatican, the first time the press had ever been invited to meet a pope. The pope said the occasion was to thank the press because "this holy year has been magnificent and successful, and a great part of the resonance it has had throughout the world was due to you and what you wrote about it."[14]
SpanishFalangist leaderJosé Antonio Primo de Rivera survived an assassination attempt inMadrid. Four men threw bombs at his car and then fired bullets at it, but Primo de Rivera was unharmed.[16]
A book by U.S. PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt was published titledOn Our Way, defending theNew Deal and reviewing the accomplishments of its first year.[20]
The King and Queen of Italy inauguratedSabaudia, the second city to be built on the newly drainedPontine Marshes.Littoria, founded in 1932, was the first.[23]
A police raid on a secluded villa inBarbizon, France revealed thatLeon Trotsky had been secretly living there for the past few months and not inCorsica as the local authorities believed. Trotsky said he had been living there in secrecy because he feared attempts on his life and produced his authority to live there. The villa attracted suspicion because of the large volume of mail it had been receiving.[24][25][26]
Died:Karl Dane, 47, Danish-American comedian and actor (suicide)
The newly refurbishedFenway Park opened inBoston, Massachusetts. Seating capacity was increased and the mound known as Duffy's Cliff along theleft-field wall had been leveled, a scoreboard installed at the base of the wall in its place. The entire park gained its distinctive shade of green at this time, although the left-field wall later to be famously nicknamed the Green Monster would remain covered in advertisements until 1947.[28]
TheFBI caught up withJohn Dillinger and his men inManitowish, Wisconsin, but the gang escaped unscathed. An FBI agent was killed in the shootout and an innocent man also died in the crossfire.[39]
Spanish Prime MinisterAlejandro Lerroux and his cabinet were forced to resign by PresidentNiceto Alcalá-Zamora due to disagreement between the two over an amnesty law.[42]
American railroad owners and workers averted a strike by reaching a settlement to gradually roll back the 10 percent pay cut imposed on the workers two years earlier.[44]
Died:John Hamilton, 34 or 35, Canadian criminal (died of gunshot wounds; some sources give date of death as April 27 or 30)
German foreign ministerKonstantin von Neurath gave a press conference denouncing France for "destroying at a single blow the result of lengthy negotiations for disarmament", calling it amazing that France would spend 16 billion francs on its military and express alarm at Germany's defense expenditure of 890 million reichsmarks.[45]
Died:Joe Vila, 67, American sportswriter and editor
KingVictor Emmanuel III inaugurated Italy's 29th legislature with aspeech from the throne that included a lengthy statement on the necessity of increasing Italy's armed forces.[46]
Nazis confiscated three Catholic newspapers around Germany for printing articles informing readers about the church's ongoing dispute with the government.[47]
The remnants of the Austrian parliament, down to 74 members because the 73 members of theSocial Democratic Party were all either imprisoned or in hiding, held their first session in over a year. By a vote of 72-2 the parliament approved a new constitution turning the country into a dictatorship.[48]
The independent American filmHitler's Reign of Terror, an anti-Nazi film composed of newsreel footage and re-enactments, premiered at the Mayfair in New York City.
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^"18 Are Injured in Minneapolis City Hall Riot".Chicago Daily Tribune. April 7, 1934. p. 1.
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