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...reporter of the Amsterdam News (Harlem Negro weekly) recognized a waitress, Harriet Mercer, who last summer sailed for France to marry Prince Batoula of Senegal (TIME, July 10). She had not married the Prince. Reason: "international complications," including publication of the fact that she had a husband, Pullman Porter Clarence Rollins. Said Harriet: "For all I knew Clarence was dead. The last I ever...
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Next day it appeared that Miss Mercer also had previous entanglements. Pullman Porter Carson Clarence Rollins Jr. popped up and casually informed newsmen that he had married her in Stroudsburg, Pa. in 1931.* But he was indulgent about it, observing: "Imagine my surprise on learning that my wife was about to become a Princess...
...Eastern roads got a forced lesson in low-fare operation when ICC ordered their coach fares cut from 3.6? per mile to 2?, their Pullman fares from 4? to 3?. While they talked darkly of a court fight (which they did not make because Baltimore & Ohio refused to join them), the new rates increased passenger revenues. New York Central, whose big, bald President Frederick Ely Williamson headed an indignant protest committee of Eastern road presidents, enjoyed a $7,000,000 rise in passenger income for the year...
...Pullman fares (now 3?): to 2.7? for trips over 900 miles; for upper berths (now run empty most of the time) ,2.7? one way, scaling down to 2.43? for round trips over 900 miles; corresponding cuts in the charges for upper berth Pullman space. (The Southern roads which have been operating at cut rates and have found them good, last week filed proposals with ICC for another 10% reduction in round-trip coach fares to a minimum...