SLAVES OF NEdKOES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12931, 13 December 1912, Page 5

SLAVES OF NEdKOES.

(Pregs/ Assn.— By Telej^phT^bpyitfght-) "..- /A NEW afc.7. Following the announcement of Jack Joh-jßOh's marriage, Mr '" Rodenbury, in the 'House of Representatives, introduced • a Bill forbidding the marriage of whites ahd negroes.; '■[ He declared that\th*e fact that white, girls could be madeithe daves of African brutes was' intolerable in> any Christian country.

CHICAGO; December 5. Interviewed with regard "to his -matrimonial plans, Jack Johnson said, that hie; had haa a long" . talk with Lucille ! Cam^ eron' (in connection with his conduct towards -whom such an qutcry .-was recently raised)j and that /they 'had 'decided td get married that evening. The pro? praetors of a moving picture concerii agreed- to pay the negro £1000* for the right to make a film depicting the v cerer mbny, but' it' ia' reported ihiit ' ihepolice authorities have prohibited "the biograph Showmen "from toeing any pictures of the wedding. Johnson's home is surrounded by police, who are determined to take ... all possible precautions against anything in the way of a hostile 'dembnstration against the champion. • ■■"■'».*' CHICAGO, December 6., Seated in "a big automobile beside her husband, her fingers and neck glistening with newly-acquired diamonds, .Lucille Cameron, or Mrs Jack Johnson, as she is now, and the champion, left Chicago on Wednesday _. evening on their honeymoon. TKs i_* weddTrig tooic ."place that afternoon, and the colored bridegroom and-Wa white bride are now making for New York. From .there they will journey to Boston.