IndustrialistWilliam C. Durant addressed telegrams to 100 leading executives asking them if they agreed with the suggestion of theFederal 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 inWisconsin, 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 therum-running shipI'm Alone, saying theU.S. Coast Guard violated international law by shelling and sinking the ship.[8]
Citizens of the tiny German archipelago ofHeligoland 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 inCentral European International Cup play. Italians complained that a sidewaysHungarian 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 boatI'm Alone was released at the request of a U.S. District Attorney inNew Orleans. No reason was given for the dismissal of charges.[15]
The German government refused to grant political asylum toLeon Trotsky.[4]
The Southern Cross
The four-man crew of the airplaneSouthern Cross was found alive and well east ofWyndham by search pilots, twelve days after the plane went missing above northwest Australia.[18][19]
The Young Commission handed Reichsbank PresidentHjalmar Schacht its proposal for the restructuring ofreparations 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]
Onbudget 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 ontea, cutting its price by fourpence a pound. Overall taxes, however, were higher than the previous year.[4][22]
France rescinded its permission to allow English occultistAleister 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 singerHelen 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 theLoray Mill Strike.[29]
In a speech to anAssociated Press luncheon in New York, PresidentHerbert Hoover declared thatcrime 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 steamshipTokyo Kuni Maru sank after striking rocks offCape Erimo in southernHokkaido; 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 theI'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 firstpoison gas attack in thatFlanders village.[42]
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^"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.ISBN978-1-137-37437-0.
^"20 Killed, 59 Injured in Roumanian Train Wreck".Chicago Daily Tribune. April 5, 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.ISBN978-0-7864-2029-2.
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^"I'm Alone Crew Freed by Order of Prosecutor".Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 9, 1929. p. 1.
^Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta (1997).Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 99.ISBN978-0-520-92615-8.
^"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.
^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.ISBN978-0-7864-2029-2.
^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.
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