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ISI-iss.'Most Whistled-af Nurse, HereWith two Wounded, Spurns DatesPretty Ensign Interested Only in Sleep After Flight Across PacificSoldier WoundedoFWhile Cleaning GunnyityaittiThe “most-whistled-at girl in the Pacific” didn't even hear boat-swaii.'s pipes when she landed at at Oakland Airport yesterday.Ensign Jane Kendeigh, 23, of Oberiiti, 0., was somewhat relieved, too, to come in without the wel-'comc that has made her famous on ithe Pacific war fronts.A beautiful, blue-eyed youngster of English extraction, she was the first American woman on Iwo Jima\dinIt*idCLEAR AND WARMWEATHER AHEADFOR OAKLAND AREAit€I*5S£m| Metropolitan Oakland was prom* i ised clear and warm weather today fand tomorrow in the following official U.S. Weather Bureau fore* cast:San Franclico B*y Are*. lVorthrn California *nd Sacramento, San Joaquin Salmas, Santa Clara and Livermore Va1 leys—Clear today, tonight and Saturda' warmet ■'nd Saturdayand on Okinawa. That was possible because she is a Navy flight nurse assigned to the job $f caringfor wounded Yanks as they areflown off the front islands.Somewhere along the Itne shegot the most-whistled-at” title But Jane, frankly, doesn't care for jt. And when she landed on the mainland yesterday she didn't want a date or a chance to show off her good looks socially.“1 just want some sleep, she tola reporteis who met her and the 20 Iwo Jima wounded on the Naval Air Transport Service plane that brought them in. “A datewouldn’t interest me now”Ensign Kendeigh grabbed” a cup of coffee and pastry at NATS lounge at the airport and headed for the Bachelor Officers Quarters of the Alameda Naval Air Station to get that sleep.”Home on sick leave two weeks after he was inducted into the Army. Pvt. Bernard Garrett, 28, of 227 16th Street, accidentally shot and seriously wounded himself last night while cleaning a gun at his heme.His wife, Ruth, said that Garrett was cleaning his .38-caliber revolver in their apartment when It went off once and sent a bullet into the floor, then fired again and hit him in the abdomen.He was taken to Richmond Hospital and then to the Oakland Area Station Hospital, where his wound was found to be serious. He was moved from there to the Letterrnam General Hosoital, in San Francisco.FaehvfVIeCcf1iiti *■4t»'Victim of CrashiDies at HospitalGusta Kious, 81, of 1601 50th Ave* nue. died yesterday at Richmond Field Hospital of injuries suffered Wednesday night when he was struck by a Key System tram at 46th Avenue and East 14th Street. His wife, Lola, 51, who was walking with him when he was hit, suffered a fractured shoulder and shock.Kious, a native of Illinois, was treated at Richmond Field Hospital i because he was a shipyard worker.Sierra ClCir today, tftmfl'Tid Satwtday. slowly rising daUme ic r* luresMonterey Bey Area—Clear today, to-ii#ht and Saturday: warmer afternoons OAKLAND rftECIPITAtlONLast 24 hours. 0; last year, J3.07; thisyear* lt.52, normal, 17.12 *A€1FIC i»ASt TEMriftATDItlllHigh Low5ft 40Rtno6? 41IRnsehur*32 Sacra mento 64 WSahna-;51 36,Ban Dirgo .......53 35iS*n Francisco 7 Mi- to WAirport 45 45, (fetch Hetchy 52 321 Santa Barbara 62 46King City to Rosa to 34Los Angek* 65 47[Seattle 55 34i \»huni Bakersfield Bo He Colu** Eureka Fod Bragg FresnoHigh Low 45 15 51 .to M 40 to 3765 4ftMerced Needles OaklandRobles 1 Phoenix Pocatello Portland Heddinffto 35.,Soda Spring* 7i 2075 VI Spokane 60 37;Stockton to 35 Susanvilie76 44fTonopah 37 27.William*51 37[Wihn*mueci63 431V umato 28to 32 to 32 38 72 55 37 43 2271 50PmCCirfTAtTONHetch Hetchy, T PcM.ite2In, CA Portland, .#3; Rwedurv 02, Soda Spitnf^ i.16; Wtnnemucca. .01Orindo Bay Shot In Eyt While Hunting!ORINDA. April 13.-A lead pellet from an a»ir pump fun, believed to have richocheted from a tree while he and a companion were hunting blue jays yesterday, punctured the left eye lid Of Boyd Wickman, 15. He is in Berkeley Hospital and it 1* hot 41 known whether his eyesight will be impaired.Boyd, son of Mr. and Mrs Emil E, Wickman of • Loma Vista, was hunting in the lightly wooded area at the rear of the Ormda Fire House with Dick Laney. 13, son of It H Laney of lt;Rio Vista Rood, when the accident occurred yesterday,Deputy Bfceiifts P. a DmmMrd.awl George Hinckley Investigated tthePrMty |om KomMqh, Ikrry ft^l of coiii and looks Not os wfckhd aTIqgli PwttCe rnktm iki bitaQ wovmAmIhn K— mi OUmipr.M yonwtep 4Mfr ft* Am• to
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Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California, US
Fri, Apr 13, 1945
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