Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1924, Page 22

RACE INTEGRITY LAW INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN Virginia Enforcing Newly Enact- ed Restrictions to Segregate Color. 95 CENTS REGISTRATION FEE Authorized Local Officials to Re- quire Birth Data. the Associated Press. CHMOND, Va.. June 25.—Detall- ed nstructions for enforcement of the new racial integrity law have been mailed by Dri;W. A. Pleckler, director of the state bureau of vital statistics, to local. registrars and other officials. “This law permits applicants either fo register with the bureau of vital statistics or with a local registrar or other authop\zBe' - agent of . the bureau.” reads the instruction “The local registrar may collect a fee of 25 cents for each person regis- tering, of which he or she retains 20 crnts and sends 5 cents with the ap- plication to the buyeau of vital statis- tics. X By “Though not required, the registra- tion is of greater value If signed also by the doctor who was present at the birth, especially if the card is expect- ed to be submitted as proof of age. Married women should give both their full maiden name and hame of hus- band. Strict as to Color. “The local registrar must be sure that there is no trace of colored blood in any one offering to register as a white person. The penalty for wil- fully making a false claim as to color 18 one year in the pentitentiary. Equal care must henceforth be used tating the color of the parents d registered at birth under is better to say so n is white when you are not sure of it. Registration may be postponed until further investization is made. AS the cferk must also de- cide the question of color before he can i a marriage license, he should be consulted §n such cases. “The bureau is in no on of the e.records of the state back. to nged by counties or cities but they are not indexed ack than 1917. - Also births < covering the period 1853 £ these can be properly in- dexed they will afford an invaluable rource of refergnce for establishing lor in man: ses, and for other purposes. If sufficient revenue is de- rived from the registration fees it is hoped that this indexing can be done.” CUPID BUSY IN VIRGINIA. and v further T LT T LT T T P ——p—— 23,550 Marriages Last Year-—In- crease of 542 Over 1922. . RICHMOND., Va. June were 23, marriages ast ¥ @ over 1922 a ageording to by Dr. W bureau of v This number, however. is 1.192 less than 1920 and 1892 less than 1919, the two vears following the close of the world war, when the number of 1ouncement todas kler of the state statistics. marriages was the greatest. it was In 1918, there were 912 less stated marriages than in 1923, making the former the lowest vear recorded to date. “There were 15.21 for 1923, which is 543 -more nd 338 more than'tor, of just 1 colored mas mpared with 1921, “There were 3 Indian couples for King William County and the same number for Amtherst. There was 1 marriage of persons of yellow color. e The length of thé trunk in man s more than one-third and less than two-fifths of ‘the height. certificate stating | white marriages | han for " said a’lass ma as_corh- pared with 1322, and'a 1oss of 64 as ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 25 (Special) —While on his way to Rockville Tues- day morning to attend a session of the orphans' court, of which he is one of the judges, Harry J. Hunt of Bethesda, who fs also connected with the assessor's office of the District of Columbia, sustained painful injuries ih an automobile accident. and his colored chauffeur, Cleve Riper, was more seriously hurt. The accident occurred at Bradley Lane and the Rockville plke. To prevent a col- lision Judge Hunt turned sharply and his car went down a five-foot em- bankment, turning over. The steer- ing- wheel was pressed violently aEaints his chest and flying glass cut one of Ripper's eyes. Both wereg brought to Rockville and given treatment by Dr. Linthicum. For driving his automobile in ex- cess of sixty miles an hour on the Rockville pike late Sunday night, John W. Carroll, former member of the District of Columbla police force, was fined $150 and costs by Judge Samuel Riggs in_the police court . He was arrested by Deputy Sherifft E. V. Caywood. who swore that he chased him for several miles and fired ‘two shots in an effort to make him stop. Carroll was_ com- mitted to jail Something like forty of the public school teachers of Montgomery coun- ty are about to onter summer schools courses of six weeks. George ington, University of Maryland, Iniversity of Virginia, University of Chicago, Asheville Normal School and Columbia College will be the institu- tions attended. Those who will thus fo teaching include Mrs. Myra Heill Mrs. Ola Burdette, Mrs. Stella Thomas, Mrs. Lulu_B. Ricketts, M Mary Shanholtz, Mrs. Eethel V Hoessen, Mrs. Hattie Kingdonr, Mrs. Lucy Barnsley. Mrs. Norman Smith, Mrs. Calphurnia_Monday, Mrs. Anna Mackay, Misses Victoria Janes, Anna White, Hazel Long, Maude England, FElizabeth Griffith, Catharine Riordan. Pearl Clements, Edna - Hauke, Ivy Fulks, .Helen Wood, Lelia Hendricks, a 'Wootton, Eieanor Maughlin, Genevieve _ Bourdeaux, Carolyn Howard, FElisabeth “Bowman, Nevis Dungan, ,Evelyn McAtee and Prof. Thomas 'W. Pyle. Prof. Harry S. Beall, James W. White, Guy Jewell, William Baker and A. C.'Bready. Licenses have been issued by the clerk of the circuit court here for the marriage of the following: John W. Mill. aged twenty-two, and Miss Margaret Williams, nineteen, hoth of Richmond, Va.: il Krause, “three, of Washington, and ce Ogle of Marlboro, Md.; ert E. Pohle, twenty-two, and Miss Myrtle G. Aufenbauer. twenty-one, both of Takoma Park, Md, and Henry A, Andre, forty-three, and Mrs. Helen A. Lawler, thirty-four, both of Wash- ington. Jack C. Carter of Washington paid a fine of $25 and costs in the police court here yesterday after he had been found guilty of driving a car on the 7th strect pike, near Sligo, in excess of the speed itmit. Carter dented his car was capable of making thirty-five miles an hour, as the of- ficer said. Judge Samuel Riggs had the speed tested by Officers Jones and Lawrence Clagett, and they in- formed the.court that it went at the rate of fifty-two miles an hour. Following the conviction of Wil- lam Fairfax, colored, of the vicinity of Travilah on a charge of assaulting Don’t risk blood poisoning by paring & coma. Apply Blus.jay, the scientiic com “Then the com loosens and comes out. Get Blue-jay today at your druggist. improve themselves for the work of |, = THERE’S a bit of all the world in i3 . ke PACIFIC Calif e Uy}‘“—f«” Ry iy Nu- gy B gt Write for Free Booklet e EesNEee TS IBer NI S E NS PEGTAE L RS ST EESENIRE RO NN ‘;‘:lh & Phi . the people—sunny “ erland; Norway;, the Riviera, Capri, the Valley of the Nile, the Orient. Itgivesyou the variety that makes a perfect vacation. 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CUMBERLAND, Md., June 25.—In‘a further, effort to curb the liquor-and drug traMic and gambling, an ordi- nance was passed by the city council here to license and regulate frult stands within the corporate limits and a mile beyond. It is contended by the police de- partment that certain fruit deal operating on a county trader cense, have been used as a “blind pig” to violate the law. The council is given full authority to grant and re- voke such licenses: " Just Drive It; That's All - Mr. Lee Stabler —formerly sales manager, is no longer associated with this firm. Gardiner & Dent, Inc. W. Gilbert Dent, President e THE MEN’S STORE OF WOODWARD & LOTHROP WHEN THE BO0O%S BURSTS SUDDENLY FROM RIS PRIVATE prvoy OFFICE WITH THE STORM SIGNALS wiLiatrs @ McCluse Newspaper Syndicate TLYING lived, and Mrs. Charles H. Davidson, |State's Attorney Garrett and Sherlft both of Kensington. He aiso leaves a | Plummer believe at least one of them son, in Michigan. Funeral services|knows who struck Fowler. were held today at the Presbyterian Church at Kensington. Burial was in Arlington cemetery. Col. Sumner was his _wife, State's Attorney Garrett suggested that the defendant de- served a dose ofPhis own medicine, and Judge Riggs said that he thought so, too, but would defer sentence for a few days until an inquiry could be made about him. Within the last few years several penalties of the kind have been carried out in Rockville, always, so the. authorities say, with good effect. At the age of eighty-one and fols lowing & long illness, Col. John D. Sumner, formerly of Washington but for fifteen years or more a resident of Kensington, died Sunday at the Mont- gomery_County General Hospital, at Sandy Spring, of general breakdown. He is survived by two daughters— Mrs. Mary Fielhouse, with whom he ——e—— T Dost Iaureate of England nolds A hative of Michigan and during the |his Job for life and 1s hot afecte Sivil war was colonel in one of that oY change of government, state’s Union regiments. ; State's Attorney Garrett and Sherift Plummer are .still endeavoring to learn the identity of the man who as- saulted Howard Fowler, twenty-nine Vears old. of Burnt MIlis, this county, at a picnic at Wheaton Saturnay night. Fowler was struck over the head and now is in a critical condi- tion with a fractured skull. Wood- {lon with & fractured skullary apa| “Just a Real Good Car” John Sartina are in jail here and both | 22222222222222222222220 222 22222 2R TIII LTI LTI TI T LI TT I 1T LI T LT LTI H AT Blue suits---always correct Recipe. for a s@xmmer outfit. To your wardrobe add one good looking blue serge suit, (single or dou- ble breasted) and 4 pair of white flannels. Mix oc- casionally. 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