Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 15

1G FRIDAY. EVENING DalilcinU Ctitiune APRIL 15, 1927 BAN jmP5 AAA 3 CITY TO OPEN "siffT'vSMs. SEARCH Hi NO POISOfJ I Instigate Death Inquiry Due to the effort oNvIRS! EDNA BRIGGS and husband, MAJOR. ROBERT. BRIGGS.

official investigation is being made into the death Mrs. Eleanor. Patterson who in her apartments at the Hotel Whitecotton, Berkeley, last Friday. Mas A. Focha, publicity chairman, Parlor to Banquet ARTERY FR 0 announced Miss Rose Ma- dero, president of the local parlor, Past1 Presidents Is giving the "reception.

She Is BAN LEANDRO. April 15. San Leandro Junior High Nearly Finished, SAN April U-Saa Leandro Junior high school will be ready for oocupanoy on August 9, according to notification received today by Charles A. Jeffery, cleric of the city school from the Oakland board of education. The contract for the completion of the school has been awarded to SullU van and Sullivan," Oakland oom tractors.

Sampel and Cody, contractors', who- started the construction work) but later had their contract rescinded, have filed suit against the Oakland board of education for. i ERE being assisted by Edna Stensel, Anna Lewis, Gladys Williams, Lavlna Hatherly and Florence Monroe. The affair will be held SAN LEANDHO MYSTERYDEATH Fourteen past presidents of El Cereso parlor of Native Daughters will be the guests at a banquet and reception hare on April-i. Miss in the Masonic hall. Visitors from several Eaatbay organizations will attend.

provement-association, which has Trinity Episcopal and St Cliernical Analysis of Worn Ildllywood Boulevard to Be a memoersntp or more tnan iuuu property owners In San Leandro Good Friday Morning j. Pauls' Conduct Union Exercises. Extended Into Heart of Oakland, Club Told: an Stomach Bares Ino Trace of Drug. and Oakland. According to Fillmore, the Oakland street depart ment two years ago agreed to make the boulevard a main traffio artery Mass Celebrated SAN LEANDRO, April 15 CinnA Frlilav morning mass was SAN LEANDRO.

April 15 The as soon as San Leandro had ex San Leandro City JuX all Catholic and Episcopal churches aolemn services marking No traces" of poison were found In the" stomach of Mrs. Eleanor Oakland city council has author celebrated by St, Leander's effurch tended the street through to Foothill boulevard. ized the opening of Hollywood bou 7 nspector Returns SAN LEANDRO.v April 16i levard into the heart of Oakland. An open forum meeting will be Patterson, whose mysterious death in her apartments at the Hotel fha three hours' agony of the Sav- our on the cross were held today Irom 18 noon until 3 o'clock. at 9 a.

m. Devotions or tne "Three Hpurs was observed for according to William H. Fillmore, held tonight at the E. Morris Cox Chris city building in Whitecotton last Friday precipi president of the Hollywood association. This ex spector, returned last night from sv-four-day conference of building In school.

Ninety-eighth' avenue and Sunnyslde street. Office seekers from Oaklandhave been asked to exDress their views on the matter. tated anofflclal Investigation, ae three hours, starting at noon. Tomorrow the blessing of font' and pascal fire begins at 7 a. and confession will be heard.

at and 7 Mm Tn ha oftArnnnn mnfeflsinns Union Good Friday services were 'T keld at Trinity Episcopal, St. Paul's tension' will give San Leandro spectors at Fresno. One of tne ne cording to Clyde Dk'ennan, chief another main traffic artery. The boulevard already ha been Im principal features of the conven deputy coroner. San Leandro will be represented by tion, according to Hopper, was the he proved in tnis city, from the city Dr.

Gertrude Moore, of the Mayor Herbert L. Land Is, Ben H. Lynch. Andrew Miller. H.

C. Bar limits to Foothill will be heard In Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Easter 8unday an 11 mass will be given, with anectal muslo rendered by an adoption of a uniform building code, to be used in California, He Tne matter was bronchi- to the ton. William Luclo, arid Edgar M. was accompanied by Arthur M.

attention of the Oakland city coun Hayes, secretary of the chamber of commerce. augmented choir. Carden, city, attorney. cil recently Dy tne Hollywood Ira- Western Laboratories, submitted her report to Drenrftin today. The deputy coroner declared, however, that the fact that no poison of the nature which it is believed caused the woman's death, rouna in the stomach, has no sle Episcopal and Tenth Avenue Bap-: tist COMMUNITY' SEItVICE.

n'. community service will be held tonight at 7:45 at St. Stephen's Methodist church. Rev. T.

E. Oll-' er of the Park Boulevard Presby-; terian church wil preach. Rev. Jlahlon B. Young, the pastor, will assist In the service.

At Shattuck Avenue 1 M. E. church tonight Stainer'a 'cantata, 'The Crucifixion," will be sung by the choir. The cantata, "Olivet to Calvary," Vlll be sung by the choir of All SouIr' Episcopal church Berkeley tonight. Stainer's "The Crucifixion" will fee sung by the choir of St.

Mark's hurch. Berkeley, tonight. CarvifAH In nrpnnrfltlnn for Eftst- nificance because the body, had al ready been embalmed and the stomach. -emptied. In the process.

"VVp-are relying upon the ob Oakland stores combine servations of Dr. Frank Simpson to establish the cause of said Drennan. "Dr. Sompson at tended the woman forr fully nine teen hours. In the room was found NOW AT BROADWAY AND 16TH a box of tablets containing a sleep.

ing potion. We know that she was V- In the habit of takinir these. My inquiry has established the fact that an overdose of this drug can if communion will be held tonight tt 8 at St. Peter's Episcopal church. Rock Ridge.

'-The way of the cross and passion Bermon will feature the services cause death. Dr. Simpson found Tine Newest Styled, every evidence that the woman was tnls evening, at the Catholic suffering from the effects. of just such "a- drug as was found i the room. Our investigation is di rected along the lines as to how Mrs.

Patterson came ito take the Just Received churches. FASTENDS AT SOON. At St. Francis de Sales church tomorrow Holy Saturday services Jegin at 8 o'clock with mass at 9 io'clock. The Lenten fast ends at noon.

'Servicea at Sacred Heart fchurch, begin at 7 a. m. Confessions will be from 10 to 12 noon for the children, and from 2 to 6 and 7 to pj.nv for 1. Special services will be held tonight in Salvation Army hall, 683 iNinth street, with Adjutant J. Iv Kelso in charge.

amount which she evidently did." WILL CONTEST POSTPONED Coincident with the official Investigation- into the death-of the wQinan, Attorney Daniel Rygel, who represents Major Robert Brlggs, a brother of Mrs. Patterson, and his wife Edna, began an Inquiry into the affairs of the woman's estate. Rygel declared that he is preparing a contest to break Mrs. Patterson's will under which she left her estate InUrust for a daughter of Major Briggs by a former wife. Major Briggs and his wife- declare that they were not notified of the death of the major's sister, although he is a patient at Livermore Veterans' hospital while Mrs.

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The notification of death was sent to Mrs. Louise Barksdale, of Louisiana, a divorced wife of Major Briggs. D. H. Hathaway, manager of the Whiter cotton, declares that Mrs.

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