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Show ooooooooooooooooo o o O Denver. . Feb. 2S. Thero O O will b no colored delcgaea O O among the 1.&00 persons who O O will attend the banquet in tbls O O city Thursday nisht in lnaugu- O O rating the Denver convention O O of the laymens' missionary O O movement. Many members of O O negro churches accepted the O O invitation sent out to them O O and to practically all other O O congregations in Denver but O O the caterer for the banquet. O O when he learned negroes wore O O to attend. Informed the com- O O mltteo he had a contract with O O his white waiters stipulating O O that they would not be called O O upon to servo negroes. The O O committee in charge of tho O O banquet made other provisions O O for the colored delegates but O O when the htter learned of the o O discrimination they announced O O today thai they would not at- O O tend. O O "We are not recntful," said O O Rev. Daniel J3. Over, paslor of O O Zlon Baptist church, "but wo O O feel that in a moement which O O calculates to spread worldwide O O Christianity this dlfcrlmlna- O O Hon Is quite out of place. O O Wo agreed to procure 150 no- O O gro waiters but were told a O O waiter had a contract that O O could not bo broken." O O O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |