MARRIAGE SOLEMNISED.
PRESIDENT WILSON’S GRANDDAUGHTER.
Received November 12, 8.5 a.m.. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. A message from Albaquerque (New Mexico) states that Miss Ellen AlcAdoo and Mr Rafael Onate were married there to-day. Onate reiterated his insistence that he was of Spanish descent, not Malay. It is understood that Senator William McAdoo gave his consent to the union.
A question of racial origin thrust itself on October 24 into the romance of Ellen Wilson McAdoo, the 19-year-old grand-daughter of the late President Wilson, and Rafael Lopez de Onate, an actor, twice her age. The County Clerk (Air Clayton) with whom the couple filed notice of intention to marry, announced that lie would require Onate to establish proof that there was neither Filipino nor Alalay 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 296, 12 November 1934, Page 8
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