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The JP* onsin Weekly Blade VOLUME 111. GEORGE BELL, LARGEST MAN IN WORLD SHOT TO DEATH AFTER SHOW; WOMAN COMPANION HELD BY POLICE Colored Man Who Played Part of “Son of the Hean Seller” is Victim—Miss Mazie Ealy With Whom He Attended Dance and Said to Have Quarreled, is Arrested. MILWAUKEE—George 0. Be!!, colored, said to be the largest man in the world and a principal in the Chn Chm Chow production playing at the Davidson theatre, was shot and killed instantly in his room in a rooming house conducted by Mrs. Grant Reeves at 299 Fourth street, at 4 o’clock Tuesday morn ing. Miss Marie Ealy, also colored., was taken into custody by Detec tives Byron, Alberts and Muellner, and is being held at central police station, charged with the shooting. She pleads self-defense, the police say. Hit by Two Bullets Bell was shot twice with a .32 caliber police positive pistol. One of the bullets entered below his right eye, and the other in the center of his chest. He died in stantly, according to the coroner, who took the body in charge. Following the show at the David son theatre Monday night, the po lice say, Bell, accompanied by Miss Ealy, attended a dance, conducted by colored people at Miller’s hall, Eighth and State streets. It is said by the police that the couple quarreled during the dance, leav ing the ball at about 2:30 o’clock Tuesday morning. Bell took Miss Ealy to the room ing house, but according to the police, left her in front of the place and went to the Turf saloon at 309 Fourth street. She Follows Him His entrance was followed by that, of Detectives Byron, Alberts and Muellner, who were on duty in the ne : ghborhood. A few minutes later Miss Ealy entered the place and, addressing Bell, is said to have pleaded with him to return to the rooming house with her. He re fused and she left. The detectives, who witnessed the affair in the saloon, spoke to Bell, finally inducing him to leave for his room. About five minutes later Bell left the Turf saloon, the three detec tives left also and walked south on Fourth street, toward State street. As they passed the rooming house at 229 Fourth street, they heard the muffled roports of two revol ver shots. Dashing up the stair way leading to the rooms on the second floor they broke down the door and, according to their story, found Mis? Ealy standing over the body of Bell, with a smoking re volver in her hand. Tells of Quarrel Questioned by Lieut. Robert'Flood, she is alleged to have made the following statement: “We had quarreled earlier in the evening. When he came home from the Tu’-f saloon, he became abus ive and kicked at me, saying ‘l’ll kill you.' I then ran to the trunk ' Lend a Helping Hand ” Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church “Bound For the Promised Land” in Their SIOOO Rally Sunday, April 6th Service All Day With A Special Program. Let Everybody Assist Rev. Geo. W. Dudley, Director 0. Hall, Clerk Silver Leaf Charity Club Milwaukee, Wis. Annuai Sermon BY Rev. Boyd R. Winchester Special Program and Music Sunday April 6th 2:30 p. m. Mrs. D. Thornton, Pres. Mrs. K. M. Wilson, Sec’y and taking out the revolver, shot him.” John L. Clark. 340 Treemont I .street, Boston, another member of i the show, told the police that he | was asleep in an adjoining room to the one occupied by the couple,! when he was awakened by the '■ sound of voices raised, in anger i “A few minutes later l heard Miss | Ealy exclaim, ‘you will strike a woman, but you’re- afraid of a man’,” he told the police. “This | was immediately followed by the two shots.” Bell played the part of the “Son ! of the Bean Seller" in the Chu Chin Chow production. He was seven feet and eleven inches tall and; weighed about 375 pounds. His ! home was at 130 Fifth street, New York. Miss Ealy is 25 years old and is said by the police to have been his | common law wife for about, two | and one-half years. Her home is j also in New York. W. S. WILLIAMS, BELOIT, PRES IDENT. WIS. RACE CON VENTION. Who Is One of the Candidates for Aldermanir Nomination in His Ward. The following is clipped from the j Beloit Daily News: With peace and quiet reigning in every ward in the city it remained for the First ward to furnish the j fireworks in the aldermanic elec- j tion that will be held on April 1. Only One Contest. Three candidates for a seat in the council from this ward had filed their papers this morning and, ac cording to each, a three-cornered contest for the seat is certain. Those who have filed their nomina tion papers with the required num ber of signatures are Fred R. O’Neal, former member of the coun ty board of supervisors, W. A. Kos sow, former member of the council from the First ward, anrt William S. Williams, colored. The names of all three candidates will be on the ballot unless withdrawn in the near future and it was not believed to day that any will quit the race. In no other ward had any con test developed at noon today. All nomination papers must be certified and filed by tonight, according to the city clerk. Despite criticisms to the contrary,! the Y. M. C. A. is doing a great, work in these part*. The crying need of the hour is a full force of helpers. There are places for men and women with a desire to serve. * * * We are teeing our first women of color since coming to France. Dur ing the long months with oar or ganization we could see nothing but white faces. What a relief! I Ilf / \ JL tM/tSCJV. sSOST ASX FTfAt/C/£Vrr£OA/f OP ' I 'd[ ipih \ && zsseo i9Ac.a **<>** ->-*&. or - V -- \ Jf 9 way. yens caw fr you wil, marc W , Ms / N jepa&Ler yrtfOM 7MESOKOS “A GREATER HOWARD UNIVERSITY” IN PROSPECT Comprehensive Program for Devel opment of Negroc’s Foremost Institution for higher Education (Special to The Blade) WASHINGTON, D. C —Mar. 25. —Plans of a definite and far-rcnch ing nature havo been formulated by Dr. .1. Stanley Durkee, the pew and progressive, president of Howard university, that will establish at the nation’s capita) a truly effective in struraentality for the higher educa tion of the Negro. A comprehensive program was announced at a recent meeting of the Board of Trnsto’g and unani mously adopted by that body, which is to be put into execution during the coming year. Positive steps have been taken to build on historic Howard Hill a “Greater Howard university," expanding and vitaliz ing the lofty purpose, conceived more than half a century ago by the im mortal Gen. Oliver W. Howard, to lift the colored millions of America to the highest moral and intellec tual plan and to provide a perman ent agency for the development of race leaders. A Program “Evolutionary and Rev. olutionary” "The system I have proposed, and with which the board is in thorough and sympathetic accord, will he ev olutionary and revolutionary,” said Dr. Durkee to a press representative in a recent interview. And, it wi'l be all that—for Dr. Durkee is a great big man, with a big brain, who has the courage and rapacity to do big things in a big way. Since the coming of Dr. Durkee just a few months ago—at the,in sistent call of thoughtful friends of Howard university, be ha? given the needs of tlje school the closest study, and it is the general feeling that the broad-gauged recommendations be has made will ultimately meet the demand of this exacting age for LEADERS^—pathfinders in all the complex phases of the life of the Negro people. He is an intense be liever in the efficacy of the higher education as a solvent # or many of the problems that perplex the col ored American, aid it is bis deter mination to make Howard the ex ponent of the Negro's loftiest as pirations, just as Harvard and Yaks stard for th" highest intellectual standards of the other rare. How ard. as he see? it. should become th'* “Great National Negro University," in the fullest, sense of the term. Some Details of the Plan According to th" plan outlined, the university will be reorganized on the junior college plan, with sen ior school*. After the completion of two years’ work in the junior col lege the student will enter one r >♦ the senior school? for special train ing. along lines of individual prefer ment and adaptability. The senior school.?, a? shown on a carefully prepared blue-print, will be com posed of Schools of Medicine, Law, Tbe.ology, Music, Applied Science, Journalism. Commerce and Finance, Liberal Arts, Education and Gener al Service—the last named to em brace Library trainin'*-, and lUnart ments of Athletics, Physical Educa tion and Military Science. Each school will have appropriate sub divisions. Thus, it will be aeon that President Durkee has enlarged the scope of the institution by adding four schools to the r.ix which already existed In order that the university may take its proper plare among the higher institutions of learning, and to concentrate its energies on real university training, the secondary work done by the Academy and Commercial school will be discon MADISON, WIS., SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919 tinued at the end of the present school year. It is expected that the work of the academy can be turned over to some other institu tion. with adequate facilities. The work of the Commercial school i?J to e raised to a college grade in | the new School of Commerce and. Finance, leading to a degree and giving a worth-while business cdu * cation that will rf hpjin keeping with] tin* modern <4h?j commercial world* A military unit for instruction in- Military science and tactics has authorized by the war and this will offer another avenpi for useful training for health %nd discipline. A fine gymnasium anil athletic field are to be provided, and a university press is to be developed. A Bum mer school is also among the many new features to be introduced. Classes will be maintained at a full roster and no time will he wasted on doubtful experimentation with classes below the normal standard. To recruit the school membership a system of alloting scholarship? to accredited secondary schools in generous measure will e adopted.! and many excellent schools giving a limited training, will serve as val-; uable “feeders” to the. university ' It will thus be seen that, the uni versity idea is brought to a high level and that, the essential second ary work of our youth is not endan gered. On the contrary, it will be strengthened. New Offices Created and a Promo tion System Adopted Three new offices are created un der the new system, the necessity 1 for which has long been recognized. There are a Dean of Men, a Dean of Women, and a Registrar. The r duties are self-explanatory and their services will bring a helpful impetus into the life of the school. The morale of the teaching force will be vitally improved by a much needed definite system of promo tion Upon the recommendation of Dr. Durkee a graduated scale of salaries has been adopted, with au tomatic increases and advancement in rank, as an incentive for greater efficiency, stricter moral character and heartier cooperation in th<* ideals for which the school stands, l for upon these qqualities retention and promotion are based Teacher? are thus enabled to go at their work with a cheerfulness, assurance and ! greater singleness of purpose tho** | ever before. Preference Given to Equipped Teachers f the Negro Race It may be stated here, with ail ; possible emphasis, that there is not a scintilla of truth in any rumor 1 that Dr Durkee proposes to ‘el'im inate” colored men from tho faculty of Howard uni varsity. He makes ; it quite plain that some white men should be on the roster of assis i tant.s. to foster a proper spirit of j racial cooperation and fne,.r!lv *.> quaintanre—but, it is to be bis fixed policy that wherever equipment is anything like equal, the colored nn i will be given preference over while applicants, for, a? he correctly say?: "Howard university is primarilj’ a colored institution—a nursery for race leaders- and colored men of superior ability should have every possible opportunity to reap what ever benefits it may have to be stow, as a stimulus to the best en deavors of the worthy members of ! the rare.” Dr. Durkie, therefore, will secure his workers for the j Greater Howard University” from the very best talent available among j :he Negro people, retaining tho?’ who “made good" and adding oth lers, as they are needed, from a list of ‘‘picked men” from the outside. Howard Alumni to He Stirred to Greater Activity Under Dr. Durkee'.? plan, a stur dy effort is to be made, to arouse to n greater degree of interest in the university among its graduates and former students. Next month. Rev. Emory B. Smith. President of the National Alumni association of Howard university, is to make a tour of thirty to fifty days through out the country in the interest >t a more active and extensive coop cration of the Alumni associations of the university, and to generate a more enthusiastic "Howard spir it.” The selection of this very live Christian leader and comrade-like alumnus is regarded as an excellent, one. and all are confident, that his me?sagr; will be most, mspiringlv delivered Many Notable Improvements in Contemplation The physical aspect of Howard university is to lie materially im proved. By recommendation of President Durkee, the trustees have voted to erect several new build ing? and to remodel the old struc tures, with a view of adding both to the beauty and utility of the school. Anew administration building is to go up in the near fu ture, and the utidy Georgia avenue, approach to the grounds is to he altered beyond recognition. The campus i? to undergo radical chang es and improvement*. A govern ment landscape expert will super vise the work of laying out “Victory Avenue.” to surround the pictur esque Howard hill, and which is to commemorate the part played by Howard men in the world war All ! of this building and landscape derel opment is to he along linen sug gested by th;* Fine Art* com in? sion Fn this entire program of scholastic and physical improvement, of the "Greater Howard uni versity" it. is gratifying to state that Dr. Durkee has the warmest approval and barking of th* Sec retary of the Interior and the most influential member? of congress, which will insure the granting of the funds necessary to carry these ambitjoiis projects to completion in due season. That Dr. J. Stanley Durl.ee i? a sincere and substantial friend of Negro progress is not in question. ■ He is a friend of humanity, regard ! less of color, creed < ■ condition, ' and there is not an atom :>f race I prejudice in his great big he.art t ; in any part of his red-blooded an j atom.v. Th;? is amply demonstra ted by the whole-souled enthusiisrn l which has characterized hi* labors ! for th betterment of this splendid f institution, to which he ha* come at a tremendous personal soenfiee, anu by tb? far-visioned outlook n<* is giving the race in his unflinching determination to bring about *he ! reforms nco ■ ?!>r;, to expand this i i.ime-honored center of the hi ’hir j culture and Christian leadership 1 Into a finer and broader exponent j of university bfe for all our peo j ,o! Dr. Durkee merit* and enjjo'M ! the most cordial support the nr* f n i ration ran give him in the pro motion of this great cause Secretary Edward f, Snyder vail ed for America with the 3fifith In fantry. Before sailing, Snyder spent some time in Paris taking on the sign:- and becoming a part of j thp gay life ♦ * * On the whole, the Congress made ! a favorable impression upon the lo i cal population. All are hopeful . ihat the results will be positive and far reaching. Tabloid Of News RICHMOND. Va.—Colored eitl- ; zens of Richmond, to the number of about 20.000 have signed a peti-! tion asking that members of their race be appointed principals and special teachers in th* schools here. WASHINGTON Col. William Peart, chiccf secretary of the Salva tion Army in the United State# has announced the acquiring of the four-story building at 7th and P street northwest, as a welfare house for colored soldiers The building will be in chargo of Adj James N Roberts, a colored Salvation Army officer. j PORTLAND, Ore—The colored people of Oregon, are much incensed over thr failure of the legislature to |>ass thp "Equal Rights" bill, which was finally voted down by a vote of 81 to 24, MONTGOMERY. Ala. Based ou urgent telegraphic requests from various citizens of Chicago. Presi dent. Wilson requested Gov. Thomas E. Kilby to grant, a reprieve to Sergt Edgar Caldwell, who was sentenced to be hanged at Anniston for the murder of Cecil I,inton, a conductor on a Anniston street car The president requested a "brief reprieve” to permit “the Attorney General, at my request to examine the records in the case, MEMPHIS, Tenn. Directors of the Plymouth Community llmis* have issued an appeal for fIOJIOO to complete the work of aiding Neg roes of Memphis with a community center. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— William Robinson, for some time an acting detective on the local police fores, has been made a regular defective. SARDIS. Alisa.- Bob Medford and Barney Nance died at; the Baptist. Memorial hospital in Memphis last, week, from gun shot wounds re reived in n shooting scrape with a Colored soldier, who has not been apprehended. BRUNSWICK, Ga.--A mistrial was reporetd in the case of Ben jnmin Jordan, who on Dec. 2nd lust shot and killed ex-Alderman B. F. Jones (white), whom he found in his home with Mrs. Jordan. ALBANY. N. V.—Martin J. Healv assemblyman from Harlem, has introduced a hill into the legislature by which colored officers will com mand the state's colored military forces. CHICAGO, 111. -Albert Hanson filed a petition yesterday with the Supreme court, asking that. Elbert K. Robinson he restrained from col lecting fund? to ’‘prosecute a ten million dollar lawsuit.” lie has al ready collected $600,000. Hanson at lego?, his collateral being notes and promises on n rnilroad wheel inven tion. \F\\ A<)R|\ The National assi ciation for the Advancement of Col ' ored People, through it? secretary, John K. Bhillady. of New York, ha? called the attention of Secretary of Labor Wilson and the Pennsylvania authorities of the wholesale dnpov tation from Contesvillr, Pa., of men who during the war were employed in the various industries, hut who sr now unemploved as a result, of the shutting down of these indus t ri'C*. PHILADELPHIA . Pa For the first time in tho history of Philr. delphla a colored common council man— Richard A Cooper m a room her of the finance committee of that body. SOMERVILLE. Trnr White people of this city have issuied an order that no “Colored newspaper?" he circulated in the town, hut that everybody must read The Falcon, a local white papor. ORANGEBURG, S. C. The Bank or? Life Insurance company was or ganized here with a capital stock of 110,000, to do a general life in surance usincM \\ ASHINGTON Invest ipatjons Negro migration to the North dur- I ing the war. just issued by the T>e -1 partment of Labor, indmate that the total migration may have been ft* great as 350,000, extending over a period of about eighteen month* during 191 5 and 1917. CLARKSBI RG, U Aa. Charp |mg that Colored people are exelud )ed Grim grand jury panel? her a use I of their rare and eolor, John Epper ! son and F,the| Whitman, both Col ored, today entered plea? of abate ment m the Harrison county court. NASHVILLE, Teirn.—R I Mai j field, local lawyer, who recently was ! disbarred from practice in the courts l of Tennessee, ha? filed with the court of civil appeals, sitting at ! Nashville, application for rehearing. ( AMP LEE, Va. The number of !D. S. erosse? and French ducors - tion? displayed among soldiers re. turning from Kranee to this camp testify to the bravery of the Col ored soldier. HOLLY SPRINGS. Mi*?— B-n Ingram, charged with murder of Green Brumlcy, wealthy white f-.r i er, whose death occurred after the 1 cun duel on Dec. 10, 1918, wa.* ac PRICE FIVE CENTS. NO. 39. quitted today in the circuit court after one of the most vigorous legal battles ever waged in Marshall county. RlCHMn\D,~\'X—Judge Bever ly T. Crump, in the Law and Equity court of this city last Monday signed a decree declaring a dividend of 25 per cent to the depositors of the de funct Saving# Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Re former*. which institution closed ita doors October 10, 1910. i CHlCAGO—Through the affort# of Attorneys Ropier and Westbrook* “Judgi ” A. C. Mayo of Gary, Ind* was arrested here charged with falsa reprenentations ii selling lota ail Gary. HAMPTON. V,- Tha N-wpor* News Shipbuilding Cos. employs 450(1 colored men. tho largest and best paid group of Unloved men m th ( industries. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.—To <*>■*' memo rate the living and the dead who were heroes in the great worltli war from JetTorson county, the di-] rector* of the Civic association went j on record in favor of erecting a I.ib erty building in Alabama in whieh( the names of all men in tho sere ire ahull he engraved on fta welUi! and in which the community gnth-1 enrigg will take place. TIIOS. SPURLOCK SAVED BY MILWAUKEE ROVj MTLV* A I K BE, Mr. tA- Rngt** T Fraction of the 370th Infantry (old Bth of Chicago), discharged J from Camp Grant Tuesday, Fabn-/ ary 25, arrived fn Milwaukee on thnl 26t,h on a short, stay, visiting hid! mother and father. Mr. and Mrs. ■inmes I,ike, 428 Seventh street-* Sunday hr experts to leave for Chi-j cago and later return tV* Milwaukee ; to live permanently. Although not decorated with th*. various medals for hrsivcry, or hav- f mg performed superhuman fonts. Fraction had a number of exper iences whi'-h ho said he would re member the remainder of his life. After arriving ip France a largo part, of tho ,370t.h was brigaded with the French troops Machine Gun Company No. 3. of the French 59th Division, of which he was a mem- I her, was commanded by General ' Mangsn. This division saw many hard days of fighting around Sms *ons. the Argonnne forest, and the St. Mihiel district. He relates a •tory of how ho was captured on i September 2fi, on the Sojssons front, by ten Germans, and without a gun of any description lie fought his wny out safely and returned to hi* commanding officer. At this point ho stopped, and lie fore he resumed his story Fraction, with a little per. suasion and pressure, he agreed to I continue ‘ In October.” he begun, “T wo* on the Hoissons front for 22 con* serutire days, raining pitchfork* nearly every day, without being re lieved, and each night was corn, pelled to sleep on a floating bedf thiil is, a few boards in a mud hoi* covered with straw, if bandy, and if not. we would spread our blanket* i <>vrr the boards and sleep on it. While I v.-as carrying a message from the post commander to th* front, line, this particular morninp? during the buttle I saw Sergt. Nora, .man Henry of our company mark-* ! ine gun gel choked and refuse t* j work, and nil of thin time the Gor i man’# gum, largo and small, wr.r® ; pouring a steady stream of lead, fire and gas at ns. Rather than retreat or find shelter. Sergeant; Henry remained at bis post, repaired i hi# gun, and later bis comrades ! counted the Huns. He was awarded Dim distinguished service, cross and j croix de guerre” While awaiting orders to attack Ihe enemy, Private Thomas Spur- 1 1 lock of Pittsburgh and Fraction, who were fortunate enough to ba | together quite often and grew Into j inseparable pa!?, were in the front j line trenches in the closing battje i r,{ the greet, war and immediately a rw shell, apparently front no i hero, exploded m their midst. Byi qui-k work Fraction was ahl* to don hi? gas mask and before bo ; on Id shout a word of warning to : Spurlock, hi? comrade crumbled and I went down in a heap, gasping choking convulsively from tho ef forts of mustard gas Wtth the assis - Wore of Fraction be succeed?d in getting hi* ma 4 on and getting back behind the lines safely. Th two i pads were separated for two months | be*' re they Haw each other again, ■ and later they met at Brest, before coming home. - Reprinted from Pittsburgh Courier. Our race men are hero at th* i IVaco Conference and are doing a lasting work Notably are Dr. W. V. R Du Bois, Col. Rosroo G. Rim jmons. Rev Wm. H. Jernagin of Washington. D. C. At the race conference last week, more than 27 representatives were present. Tho resolution? that were prepared and that will be presontod before tha Peace Conference proper are a mas -1 erful presentation of the claims of the black people throughout th* work!. * * * Mrs. Huston, widow of the lat® distingu died Wm. A Huntou. was :n attendance at. the Race Congress, + V ♦ Our old friend Major Joel S. jSpingani tamo all the way from : ionic where in Germany to greet !those for whom he has labored u ' untiringly. _ i