THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919. INQUEST FAILS TO SHOW MOTIVE IfJ GIRL'S SUICIDE Mother of Mildred Hoeltz De nies Engagement Ring In cident, But Says Man May Know Reason. 'Miss Mildred HoeUz, 15-year-old department store clerk, met her death from an overdose of strych nine Wednesday taken with suicidal intent was the verdict of t cor oner's jury following the inquest held yesterday at the undertak ing establishment of Stack & Fal coner, 3224 Farnam street. The motive which prompted the act probably will remain a mystery. When Mrs. May Hoeltz, the dead Bid's mother, took the witness stand Paul Steinwender and C. H. Kubat of they county attorney's office failed to .bring out in the woman's testi mony the nature of a quarrel Tues day night and Wednesday. Excused By Questioner. Mrs. Hoeltz told of a disagree ment with her daughter, and when she asked if it was necessary to ex plain in detail she was told by Mr. Steinwender that she would be ex cused from telling anything she did not care to relate. Mrs. Hoeltz told a reporter for The Bee that she quarreled with her daughter following a visit Tuesday night to her daughter by A. J. Smith, a traveling salesman. "I heard my daughter and Mr. Smith engaged in an earnest con versation," she said. "I heard my daughter say' several times, 'That subject is too deep for me.' Conversation Not Revealed. ''My daughter always had been in the habit of telling me every thing. I insisted on knowing what Mr. Smith was talking so seriously about, and ahe refused to tell me. Our disagreement followed. "It is my opinion that the subject of this mysterious conversation and my scolding Mildred caused her to end her life. Unless Mr. Smith tells the subject he was discussing with my daughter, the secret will have died with her." Denies Ring Incident. Mrs. Hoeltz denied that her daughter took off her engagement ring before leaving the Brandcis store. "It could not be true, bp cause she was not engaged to in.ir ry," she said. "She did not take off any rings in the store because she had them all on when I arrived home after she took the poison." Mrs. Hoeltz was the first witness called. She told of tfhe bitter ex change of words between herself , and daughter Tuesday night. "I told my daughter if she did not tell me what her visitor had been talk ing to her about, she could find Some other place to live." i . The witness related her story with' streaming eyes', and several times was overcome with .emotion, 1 v Engagement With Man. - VVhen Mildred, according to. her daily custom, failed to spend the lunch hour with me Wednesday, 1 did not think anything of it. be cause I knew she had an engage ment with a man to go to lunch," she said. Mrs. Hoeltz declared later that the man's name was Rockway, and said he was a locomotive engineer. "My daughter had been acting strangely for two weeks," contin ued the witness. "I know wjiy, but is it necessary for me to tell?" She was told by Mr. Steinwender that it was not necessary for her to relate anything that she did not feel like telling. ' s Walker at Inquest. , .Harvey D. Walker, alleged to be one of Mra. Hoeltz's suitors, and whose wife is suing him for a di vorce, attended the inquest. He declared he was not a friend of the Hoeltz family. "Simply a neighbor and specta tor," he said. Mr. Walker interrupted the in quest when he saw The Bee artist making sketches of the witnesses. "What right has this reportei to come in here and draw pictures of these women, the neighbor and spectator" inquired in angry and excited tones. "I have mighty little use for re porters, anyway." Mr. Walker was told to take his seat. Later he displayed the interest of a close "neighbor and spectator" when he remained by Mrs. Hoeltz's side advising her and comforting her for three-quarters of an hour af ter the inquest had been- concluded. Mrs. Walker is Interviewed. While Walker was hovering around Mrs. Hoeltz at the inquest, Mrs. Walker was talking to a re porter far The Bee at her residence, 2787 Capitol avenue. "I am sick of this publicity," she exclaimed. "I am glad, however, Mrs. Hoeltz's and my husband's names have been connected at last." Mrs. Walker refused to. deny or ' affirm Mrs. Hoeltz's statement of the meeting in Elmwood park be tween Walker and Mrs. Hoeltz. She declared that she did not know Mrs. Hoeltz, but had known Miss Mildred. Mrs. Walker is suing her husband on the grounds of cruelty. Anther feature the inquest failed to clear up was the two lines in the note left by the dead girl in which she told her mother to "forget and forgive her and lead a good, clean life." Denies Girl's Meaning. It was in connection with this note that Mrs. Hoeltz Thursday em phatically denied that the girl's meaning could in any possible way bj construed as referring to her al leged friendship to Mr. Walker. Her explanation o' the death note tias Jhat Mildred had lost all faith in man. "Mildred was old for her years and was simply tired of life because she had lost all faith in the truthfulness of men," she said. Dr. Sam McCleneghan, the cor oner's physician, declared that his lutopsy revealed that the girl had died of strychnine poison. He said Miss Hoeltz was in normal physical condition and that there was no in dication, as far as he determined, of any disorder with the exception of the poison in the stomach. Found Girl on Bed. Miss Sylvia Boesberg. who lives in the house with' the Hoeltr fani- MRS. MAY HOELTZ, MOTHER OF THE DEAD GIRL and friend of Harvey D. Walker, who assumed the role of adviser to the stricken woman, and strenuously ob jected to the presence of reporters at the hearing. Mr. Walker's wife is . seeking a divorce from her husband. Miss Sylvia Boesberg, who was the first to arrive at the dying girl's bedside, and whom Miss Hoeltz, rolling in convulsions, begged to shoot her and end her suffering. Paul Steinwender, who presided at the hearing and told Mrs. Hoeltz she need not relate anything on the witness stand which she did not want the jury to know, ' ily, testified to calling the police and notifying the girl's mother soon after she heard screams coming from Miss Hoeltz's room. She told of finding Miss Hoeltz rolling in agony on the bed. Miss Boesberg found the empty package from which the poison had been taken and a box of capsules on the bureau. "Mildred called my attention to a loaded revolver which was lying on the bureau," said the witness. "She told me to be careful with it that it was all ready to shoot and asked me to put it away. Then as her suf fering increased she begged me to shoot her and put her out of misery." Miss Hoeltz swallowed five grains of strychnine in a capsule, she told "To Have Peace We Must Be Prepared to Fight for It"-Wuest "To have peace we must be pre pared to fight for it," stated Lieut. Col. J. W. S. Wuest in an address last night at Temple Israel. "If we had had an army of 500,000 when war was declared, I doubt if it would have lasted six months. If we had had force enough behind the notes of President Wilson, 1 do not think that the Lusitania disaster and sim ilar incidents would have occurred." Lieutenant Colonel Wuest filled the pulpit of Rabbi 'Frederick Cohn, wh'o is attending the rabbinical con vention in Cincinnati, O. W. L. Holzman, president of the congrega tion, read the services. "I am not in favor of compulsory military training for young men when they are at the most produc tive period of their lives," declared the speaker, "but I have always be lieved that the high school boy should be trained for an hour or so a day, should be provided with an encampment where they may spend two or three of their summer months and should be given additional train ing in the colleges. "This would give us a reserve of college-trained officers. The non commissioned officers and the priv ates would come from those who have not had the advantage of such training, but who have learned the fundamentals of military life in a training camp at which their pres ence would be requested for a month or two for possibly four years." The menace of bolshevism and the relation of capital to labor were also mentioned as problems to be settled before a real peace could be ob tained. That truth and honesty are the fundamentals upon which a last ing peace must rest, was Lieutenant Colonel Wuest s concluding thought. Divorced Wife Comes from Maine to Bring Suit for Big Alimony Pearl M. Hodgdon of Portland, Me., filed suit yesterday in district court here, to collect $1,500 from her ex-husband, Harry B. Hodgdon, who, she alleges, deserted her and their small son in 1904. Hodgdon is a city fireman, a mem ber of Company No. 7, located at Thirty-sixth and Jackson streets. They were married in Portland in 1898, and Mrs. Hodgdon alleges he deserted her in 1904 and came to Omaha. On September 1, 1918, she filed suit in Portland for a divorce and it was granted to her, October 19, 1918, together with $500 alimony. Collection of the alimony was un enforcable by the Maine court and the present action for the larger sum is brought for that reason. Welcoming Programs for Soldiers at Schools The last of a series of welcome home exercises in the community centers were held last night in Ed ward x Rosewater, Lincoln, Mon mouth Park and Central Park schools. The .civil war veterans' quartet sang and Charles G. Triehm and Roy Millard spoke in the Edward Rosewater school, where refresh ments were served after the pro gram. Speakers at other centers were Frank G. Odell, Robert Kutak and E. Hamren, Lincoln school; N. T. Whitman, Central Park; J. A. Kil patrick and Robert Nichols, Mon mouth. Park. i Hold Memorial Service. London, April 4. A memorial service for the Americans who fell during the war was held at West minster Abbey today under the auspices of the English-Speaking union. This service was attended l a : : J - . i Iments from the army and nayy, Mrs. May Hoeltz Patrolman John Coffey, who re sponded to the call phoned the po lice station. Coffey was accom panied by Dr. Julius Johnson, who worked with the girl for two hours in an attempt to save her life. Miss Holtz told the policeman she pur chased the poison from the drug de partment in the Brandeis store. F. M. Crowl, the druggist who sold Miss Hoeltz the strychine, pro duced his records showing that the girl bought five grains of the poison from him Wednesday. She told him, he said, that she was 19 years old and wished to kill a cat with it. "She seemed to be a girl with no evil intentions and I did not hesitate to let her have the poison," he said. AT THE THEATERS IT'S This afternoon that "Oh, Girl!" begins its run of a week at the Gayety. . The principal funmakers. are Johnnie Jess and Danny Murphy. Mr. Jess is the real ization of the character, Mr. Jiggs, in "Bringing Up Father." As Mr. Jess has been entertaining the public many years in the same makeup, it is safe to consider that tne cartoonist received his Inspiration as to the ap pearance of Jiggs from Mr. Jess. The production is said to be an elab orate one, scenically. Tomorrow's matinee starts at 3 p. m. "Miss Springtime," one of the big gest musical comedy successes of re cent years, is the attraction at the Brandeis the last two times today. It is being shown here with a not able cast, including Edith Allan, Harrison Brockbank, Wayne Nunn, Florence Hope, Charles Meakins, Margaret Duval, Jimmie Hunter, Will II. Sloan, Billy Nunn, Elaine Vance, Harry McCoy, William Pearl, Dorothy Blaine, Rose Prevost, Catherine McKenzie, Helen Jack son and a chorus of pretty girls. "Miss Springtime" scored a loi g run at the New Amsterdam theater in New York and its subsequent suc cess on the road has been unparal leled. Tonight, at 8 o'clock, the curtain goes up for the final performance of the popular show at the Orpheum, a bill headed by the musical comedy in three scenes, "The Only Girl." For the week, opening with tomor row's matinee, there will be two headline attractions. Known as "The Blue Streak of Vaudeville" Rae Samuels will be one of the stellar features. Another topliner will be the musical allegory, "White Cou pons." Foster Ball is featured in his sketch, "Since the Days of '61." And the Kirls with the amazing fig ures, Buster Santos and Jacque Hays will appear in the laughable skit, "The Health Hunters." Still an other feature calculated to make the week one of the biggest of the sea son in ooint of attendance will be John Robinson's military elephants, a fifteen-ton sensation. Seldom in the world of entertain ment, either in the stage of screen work is there a call for so many characters as in the case of "I Be lieve," George Loane Tucker's mas terpiece, which is now on display at the Boyd theater. "I Believe" was originally shown at the Rialto theater in New York city that great place of art, pictures and music, wherein Mr. Samuel I. Rothapfel holds forth. It was ac cepted unanimously as the sensation feature of the season and its virtues were heralded broadcast by the press. n Billie and Dot, a duo of the daint iest girls vaudeville has seen this season, are heartily greeted at each performance at the Empress theater. Billie's boy impersonations are as clever a bit as the vaudeville stage has yet revealed. The surprise of the bill is offered by Jarrow, whose manipulation of cards is . so clever as to border on the mysterious. Fun runs riot, when Vic LeRoy and Jack Dresdner step on the stage. "Three Faces East," presented by a company headed by Miss Lillian Tucker and Mr. Everton, assisted by David Torrence, A. F. Davics, Arthur V. Gibson, Sydney Mather, N. St. Clair Hales, Arthur Elliott, Leo Stark,' Florence LeClercq. Maud Leslie, Rubi Trelease. J. M. Holicky, Ralph Belmont, Guy Cunningham and Isabel Garrison, will play at the Brandeis; April 9, 10 ana 11, with a Thursday matinee. "The Masque of Life," which will be seen at the Brandeis for three days, April 6, 7 and 8. is a seven- reel film starring Rita Jolivet and Hamilton Revelle. ., . i The heavy emotional sgenes are Jeiry County Jltfjrney Steitwtfldet 7'resJdinf beautifully portrayed by Mile. Eve lyn, one of the highest paid stars of a famous circus before she signed a contract to star in "The Masque of Life.' Thirty-five Receive Diplomas From High School of Commerce Thirty-three students of the High School of Commerce were graduated last night at commencement exer cises held in the Central High school auditorium. Dr. C. A. Ful mer, head of the state vocational department of the University of Nebraska, delivered the commence ment address. Fifteen graduates of the four-year course received their diplomas, to gether with 18 students who have completed the three-year program. W. E. Reed, president of the Board of Education, presented the certifi cates. Dr. F. H. Smith of the First Cen tral Congregational church offered the invocation. Cadet certificates were presented by Arthur Wells of the board to the graduates who had acted as commissioned officers. Commerce High is the only local school following a quarterly pro gram. A class of about 50 students will be graduated in June. Those receiving their diplomas were: Helen Llndquisl Anna Molner Elsie Srhagun Anna Greenberg T.eona. Elpperle Edward Munson John Nowak Douglas Dunn Meyer Colnlo Jerry Teear Ham Green v. C. Williamson Ernst Horacek Raymond Simmon Wilbur Cramer Mary I. Wallace David Greenberg Vanyta Korff David Potashuck Jeanette McDonald Helen Bartos Mildred Schmidt Alice Leon Bessie Friedman Anna Gloyer Gertrude Castleman Helen Noon Gertrude Lerene Irene Hagen T. Siedenspinner Martha Kobb Gertrude Cooper Anna Katman Edith T.atfe Clara Schrtebman Nelson Elected President of Omaha Noonday Club Frans Nelson was elected presi dent and J. L. Jacobson, vice presi dent of the Noonday club of Omaha at the annual meeting for the elec tion of officers held Friday evening at the Chamber of Commerce. The following are the other offi cers elected: Charles O. Anderson, secretary, and Victor A. Johnson, treasurer. About 50 members were present at the meeting. New Shoe Styles For Spring The newest and most dis tinctive spring shoe styles fashionable models measuring up to the Fiy high standard of quality in every yay that will appeal to discriminating women who seek only the best. The prices, too, are at tractively low. COMMISSIONER MANLEYTALKSTO SECRETARIES Says Commercial Clubs and Chambers of Commerce Will Eventually Become Social Centers.for Big Interests. , Commercial clubs and chambers of commerce are to be something more than meetings of men to dis cuss business phases of community interests. They are to become social centers where larger interests than is included in merely commercial affairs will be presented and dis cussed, according to Robert Manley, commissioner of the Omaha Cham ber of. Commerce, who was on the program for a talk to the delegates of the Iowa Secretarial association at its concluding session in Council Bluffs Friday afternoon. Self-interest Barred. : The attendance yesterday was dou ble that of Thursday, many of the newcomers being representatives of Nebraska commercial clubs. Com missioner Manley's theme was how the Omaha Chamber of Commerce was formed, but he got out of the dry narrative of common facts very quickly and aroused a lot of interest when he began 'to tell what the Omaha organization must become to reach the helpful place destined for it. It must become a community center, he said, where everything relating to the welfare of Omaha must be considered without taint of self-interest. He said the Omaha organization had already become something of a club for business men where they tell their troubles if they wanted to or forget them, but where they could get helpful companionship and larger ideas of citizenship. ' Keep Youths Busy in Gardens and They'll Stay Out of Mischeif The establishment of a course in gardeaiog, elementory farming and canning in public schools was advo cated by N. M. Graham, assistant United States regional director of the school garden army in Iowa and Nebraska, and by Mrs. John Dickin son Sherman, special assistant direc tor of the United States school gar den army at a meeting of Omaha clubwomen held at the Chamber of Commerce Friday evening. Mayor Smith urged the support by Omaha women and his school boys' and girls' market project. Joe Ihm, boys' and girls' garden club leader, narrated some of his ex periences in dealing with boys and girls interested in gardening. Juvenile delinquencies would be greatly lessened if the boys and girls would be kept busy at some kind of work during the summer months, ac cording to Mr. Graham. Garden ing is the ideal occupation for the youth of the land and would serve to keep them out of mischief, he continued. It would also result in the year-around school for which educators have been agitating, he stated. An open, discussion closed the meeting. Bee Want-ads pay big profits to the people who read them. Monday April 7th French Army Band Capt. Fernand Pollain, Conductor Wounded Soldier-Musicians, all decorated for Bravery in Battle. Featured Soloists: Georges True, Pianist; Alex De Bruille, Violinist. A Patriotic Symphony Concert Auspices Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Retailers' Associa tion! Alliance Francaise. Benefit French War Charities. Seats on Sale Auditorium Box Office. Prices: Lower Floor, $1.50, $1.00, 75e. Balcony, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00, 50c. 'SHOE CQ TlASmSyVom filmland "PHOTO PIAY OFFERINGS FOR.' TODAY- On the Screen Today. Mt'ftK DURTIN FARNUM In "THE VIRGINIAN." HIAI.TO ANITA PTEWART In "A MIDNIOHT ROMANCE." SIN TOM MIX In "FIGHTING FOR COLD." STRAND W A LI-A C F. REID In "ALIAS MIKE MOHAN." ROYIt "I BKMKVK." KMPRKSH ALICE JOYCE In "THE CAMBRIC MASK." LOTRROP 34th and Lothrop NOR MA TALMA DUE In "THE PROBA TION WIFE." BOVI.EVARI JM and Leavenworth WILLIAM FARNUM In "FOR FREE DOM.'.' GRAND llh and Blnney BRYANT WASHBURN In "THE OYPSY TRAIL." MACK BENNETT'S "SUMMER GIRLS." APOLI.O 29th and Leavenworth FRANK MAYO In "THE MORAL PKADLINE." Sl'BCRBAN 24th and Anifi. FRANK KEENAN, In "THE BELLS." MACK BENNETT COMEDY. HAMILTON 40th and Hamilton FRANK KEENAN In "THE RULER OF THE ROAD," ORVHEl'M South Side, 24th and M BESSIE BARRISCALB In "HEARTS ASLEEP." "TERROR OF THE RANGE," No. 4. ELIXOR FAIR, now playing with Albert Ray, has no desire to be a one-part actress. She has a nice light comedy touch, and also welcomes a dramatic role. Already she has written over a half-hundred of scenarios, some of which have been recommended for' production and which she hopes to see screened later. Fay Tincher, Molly Malone, Pat ricia Palmer, Harry Depp, Bobby Vernon, Jay Belsaco, Ethel Lynne, Dorothy be Vore, Earl Rod ney and Harry Edwards are all playing now in Christie comedies. Al. Christie, Scott Sidney and Will iam Beaudine are the directors. "Marie, Ltd," Alice Brady's Select picture, is now being distributed to AMUSEMENTS. ONE WEEK Starting Sunday Mat., April 6. JUST BACK FROM INDIA. MURDOCH "The Man Who Knows" TEARING THE CURTAINS FROM THE FUTURE. DO THE DEAD RETURN? BELIEVE NO ONE! COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. ALL NEW $50,000 SHOW. PRICES Matt., 25c and 50c. Night. 25c, 50c and 75c. "I BELIEVE" Is Here Today, Last Time. Also FATTY ARBUCKLE in "A FARM YARD ROMEO." BOYD THEATRE Shows at 1-3-5-7-9 P. M. 25c. ami l LAST TWO TIMES "THE ONLY GIRL" And Current Bill. Matinee Today 2:15 EARLY CURTAIN TONIGHT, 7:55 Next Week Ray Samuels; "White Coupons'." Foster Ball and Ford West; Santon & Hayes and Excellent Bill. Today Mat. A Evening Last 2 Times. Klaw & Erlanger's Perfect Musical Comedy 'MISS SPRINGTIME" Aglow With Youth and Beauty. Special Orchestra. Urban's Scenery. Nights, 80r-$2.00: Mat., S0c-$1.S0. TrVTI TS aT- li -rJtElTH-Hr-J TWO SHOWS IN ONE LOUIS HART A CO. "As In a Dream" LEROY & DRESDNER: JARROW: BILLIE DOT. Photoolay Attraction: ALICE JOYCE In "THE CAMBRIC MASK. Mack Bennett Comedy. Paths Weekly. UMAHA'S FUN CENTER" " l&rtfyfjiVaar MaU- ,s-2S-0e 3J7'yEv'nfs., 25-50-7SC St IsV'OH, GIRLS" .r". With Johnnie Jess and Danny Murphy in "Friendly Rivals." Chorus of Twenty Sing ing and Dancing Witches. LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS. II Dally rf I T tV 1 A lilEE is satisfied. He knows he is stylishly clothed that the material will "Stand Up" and that the fit is certified. And the prices? They are surprisingly low, everything considered. N With Easter at hand, we urge you to let us measure you up tomorrow. New Styles Radiate From N. W. Corner 15th and Harney Streets first-run theaters. "Marie, Ltd.," is from a story of Louise Winters which appeared recently in one of the popular magazines, and the scenario is by Jane Murfin, who has collaborated with Jane Cowl in a number of successful stage plays. Kenneth Webb directed. A bit of New York's Bowery has been transferred to California as a background for Jim Corbett's forth coming serial, "The Midnight Man." George Holt, famed as a screen villain, took the directorial reins f the Eddie Polo company. Holt was for years with the Vitagraph and is known everywhere for his excellent portrayals of crook and heavy parts. His company, is headed by Eddie Polo and Eileen Sedgwick. "Ambition" is the tentative title of the picture in which Dorothy Phil lips, the star of "The Heart of Hu manity," is working under Allen J. Holubar's direction. Prizma Pictures, or some have called them ."natural color photo plays, are now being employed in PHOTOPLAYS. v Wallace Reid IN "Alias Mike Moran" I Will Present for the LAST TIME TODAY , Talented and Charming ANITA STEWART IN A DELIGHTFUL STORY OF Love and Mystery HOTEL FONTENELLE TEA DANCES Saturday Afternoons, 4 to 6 SUPPER DANCES Monday and Saturday Evenings, 11 to 12:30 MM! the making of stories into screen drama. The dream of the ptoneerj in the film industry, has been re alized in the use of natural color photo processes to . embellish and add further interest to the screen reproductions of stories, in scenario form. PHOTOPLAYS. BOULEVARDu'wIh WILLIAM FARNUM in "FOR FREEDOM." LOTHROP NORMA TALMADGE in "THE PROBATION WIFE." U Last Day The 1919 Revival of Dustin Farnum in his best play "The Virginian" "FIGHTING FOR GOLD" I Ml