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Married. Joseph Schildkraut, 34, Austrian-born U. S. film actor; and Lilian Mary McKay, 22, of London; in Vienna. The bride said Actor Schildkraut proposed on a trip to Niagara Falls...
...last week a great northbound skein of wild whistling swans (less rare than the trumpeting species) settled upon Niagara River above the falls to spend the night. A stiff breeze that had been blowing upstream fell away. In the morning, rivermen found the icy gorge below the falls strewn with dead swans. Some 50 survivors sat huddled on the floes. Despite restraining efforts by officials of the Queen Victoria Park Commission, Riverman William ("Red") Hill, famed survivor of two trips through Niagara's rapids in a barrel (TIME, July 13), picked his way out on thence, frightened the foolish...
Hundreds of swans are swept over Niagara every year. At Niagara, about 10% are killed, 30% injured. In 1924 and 1927, several thousand went over. The dead and injured usually drift to the Canadian side of the rapids. The dead are sent to charity. The injured go to the Buffalo Zoo or to Jack Miner's bird sanctuary at Kingsville, Ont. (TIME. Jan. 26, 1931 et ante...
...Niagara Falls...
Floyd Leslie Carlisle, 51, chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Corp., was elected chairman of Consolidated Gas Co? of New York, filling a position left vacant since the resignation in 1914 of the late Harrison Gawtry, founder of the company. Mr. Carlisle's election followed the sudden resignation of Matthew Scott Sloan from the presidency of its subsidiary, New York Edison Co. Mr. Sloan was generally believed to represent the Brady interests. Mr. Carlisle represents the National City-United Corp. group, thought to be strengthening their position in Gas. Re-elected president of the company for the 24th time was George...