Defrocked Anglican priest Harold Davidson was arrested and charged with attempting suicide, having been on exhibition for the past ten days with a sign that he was "fasting unto death" in protest against a ruling prohibiting him from performing church duties.[2]
Field Marshal August von Mackensen published a letter resigning his honorary chairmanship of Der Stahlhelm. He thanked the members for their dedication and explained that the organization's purpose had been fulfilled by Hitler's conscription army.[7]
Died:David Townsend, 43, American art director (auto accident)
French Prime Minister Pierre Laval called an unprecedented meeting of all 86 prefects across the country and instructed them to firmly enforce his unpopular deflationary measures.[15]
Huey Long claimed on the floor of the Senate that his foes had discussed a plot to assassinate him.[16]
Adolf Hitler made his first public speech since his operation in May,[19] emerging from his retreat in the Bavarian mountains to give an address in Rosenheim warning his opponents that the Nazis were ready to crush all opposition.[20]
Jan Smuts warned that a war between Italy and Ethiopia could spark a wider ethnic conflict between blacks and whites all throughout the continent of Africa.[21]
14 were killed in a mine flood in Ribolla, Italy.[22]
A dam burst near Ovada, Italy, killing an estimated 250 people.[23]
Huey Long announced that he would run for U.S. president in 1936 as an independent candidate unless the Republicans nominated someone he would support. Long said he would seek the Democratic nomination instead if Roosevelt did not run for re-election.[24]
Dazzy Vance of the Brooklyn Dodgers made his final major league appearance against the Chicago Cubs, giving up a base hit and a hit batsman to the only two batters he faced.[25]
16-year-old Glenn LaRue Howard of Max, Nebraska, fell into a hot spring while fishing at Yellowstone National Park. He was able to climb out of the hot spring by himself, but died from his burns the following day.[26]
Died:Wiley Post, 36, American aviator (plane crash); Will Rogers, 55, American humorist and actor (plane crash); Paul Signac, 71, French Neo-Impressionist painter
Haile Selassie offered new economic concessions to Italy, stressing he would not accept a military occupation but would grant facilities for mining, road construction and railway operations.[30]
The Paris conference broke up with nothing resolved.[31]
At the opening of a fair in Königsberg, Reich Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht said that certain Nazi policies were bad for the country's business. While agreeing with the government that secret societies had no right to exist, pastors and priests should not dabble in politics, and Jews "must resign themselves to a realization that their influence is broken in Germany once and for all", Schacht said that these issues could not be settled through actions that "seriously disturb business."[32]
The U.S. Senate passed a bill declaring American neutrality in foreign wars. The measure banned shipment of arms to belligerents and declared that American citizens traveling on the ships of warring nations were doing so at their own risk. President Roosevelt reserved comment on the measure pending its study.[37]
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Historic Sites Act of 1935 into law, marking the first time that the preservation of significant objects and sites is explicitly made a responsibility and obligation of the U.S. government.[38]
The major Italian newspaper Il Giornale d'Italia ran a front-page editorial directed at Britain, warning that British newspapers urging economic sanctions against Italy were "working for war."[41]
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie ordered civilians to leave Addis Ababa and disperse across the country in order to reduce casualties from the anticipated aerial bombardment by Italian planes.[44]
The U.S. State Department published the text of a note sent to the Soviet Union, threatening an interruption of friendly relations unless the Soviets put a stop to plotting the violent overthrow of the American government.[45]
The Soviet Union rejected the U.S. government's protest note, replying that it had "no facts which could be regarded as a violation on the part of the Soviet Government of its obligations."[48]
In an address to 2,000 Catholic nurses, Pope Pius XI commented on the Abyssinia Crisis by saying, "A war of sheer conquest and nothing else would certainly be an unjust war. It ought, therefore, to be unimaginable – a thing sad and horrible beyond expression. An unjust war is unthinkable. We cannot admit its possibility, and we deliberately reject it ... if it be true that the need for expansion and the need for frontier defence do exist, then we cannot forbid ourselves from hoping that the need will be met by means other than war."[50]
In the Soviet Union, Alexey Stakhanov reportedly attained a productivity record by mining 102 tons of coal in 5 hours 45 minutes, exceeding the normal output of 7 tons by 14.5 times. A productivity initiative known as the Stakhanovite movement was named for this accomplishment. In 1988 the Soviet press revealed that the record was fraudulent because the output of Stakhanov's co-workers were added to his own.[54][55]
