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Show JUST WHAT is mm That Is a Question Now ! Before the Higher Courts Washington, Sept. S. Just whet constitutes a negro In the I'nlled htatps mav bo a question which the United States Supreme court will be asked to settle In the near future. One-sixteenth One-sixteenth negro blood in an Individual i classifies him as a negro In the Dls-I Dls-I trict of Columbia, according to a de-I de-I clsion by Justice Ln:iel T. Wright of the District supreme court in the care of Isabel I. Wall, nn eight -year-old child, who recently was bane I from a white public school because the principal prin-cipal had Information that she was of negro parentage. The lather of the child attempted to force the board of education to rein-' rein-' state the child, '.nit failed. Justice j Wright deciding that she was a negro. The case was appealed to the District court of appeals. If the apot ll.it court i nfTlrms Justice Wright"? deeision. an effort will be mnb immediately to have the United States supreme court ! pass on the question |