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NOT AFRAID OF NEGRO TAINT.To Wed Sister of Mrs. Collins, WhoseHusband Wants Annulment.%ST. LOUIS, July 3.—Miss Blanche Clamorgan, elder sister of Mrs. Cora Clamorgan Collins, who Is being sued by John B. Collins for annulment of their marriage on the charge that she has taint of negro blood, is engaged to marry Charles Wass, an automobile dealer, according to an announcement made to-dayby Mrs. Louis P. Clamorgan, the youngwomans mother.Wass was a regular caller at theClamorgan home at the time when the annulment suit gave publicity to the question of the family’s racial standing. He has continued his visits since and has ex-pressed contempt for the action* taken by Collins. The recent publication regarding the Clamorgans’ ancestry in St. Louis newspapers created a sensation here. One of the Clamorgan girls was a reader in the Christian Science Church and others had been attending white schools in St.Louis.Onlv Two Nights New York to Colorado.Hock Island Lines’ de luxe “Rocky Moira-
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