MARRIAGE LAW.
INCIDENT IN CALIFORNIA. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24. A question of racial origin thrust itself to-day into the romance of Ellen Wilson McAdoo, the 19-year-old granddaughter of the late President Wilson, and Rafael Lopez de Onate, an actor twice her age. The County Clerk, Mr Clayton, with whom the couple filed notice of intention to marry, announced that he would require Onate to establish proof that there was neither Filipino nor Malay blood in his veins before issuing a marriage license. The California laws prohibit unions between persons of Caucasian blood and persons of Filipino or Malayan strain.
Onate claimed to be a native of the Philippines.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 281, 25 October 1934, Page 8
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108MARRIAGE LAW. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 281, 25 October 1934, Page 8
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