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'Most Whistled-af Nurse, HereWith two Wounded, Spurns DatesPretty Ensign Interested Only in Sleep After Flight Across PacificSoldier Wounded01FWhile Cleaning GunThe “most-whistled-at girl in the Pacific” didn’t even hear boatswain's pipes when she landed at at Oakland Airport yesterday. Ensign Jane Kendeigh, 23, of Oberlin, 0., was somewhat relieved, too, to come in without the welcome that has made her famous on the Pacific war fronts.A beautiful, blue-eyed youngster of English extraction, she was the first American woman on Iwo JimaCLEAR AND WARMWEATHER AHEADFOR OAKLAND AREAj Metropolitan Oakland! was prom-. ised clear and warm weather today ! and tomorrow in the following official U.S. Weather Bureau fore-. cast:San Franclico B*y Are*. Norlhrrr Califorruai «nd S**r*mento, S*n Joaquir. S»lm«s, Santa Clara and Livermore V*1 leys—Clear today, tonight and Salurda' warmer --ndand on Okinawa, That was possible because she is a Navy flight nurse assigned to the job lt;*f caringfor wounded Yanks as they areflown off the front islands.Somewhere along the line 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,“I just want some sleep,” she told reporteis who met her and the 20 Iwo Jims 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 lmmge 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 22? 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 Lettermxn General Hosoital, in San Francisco.PaieibV.flvlieCc8IjlI *1 tI K‘t,VsVictim of CrashDies at HospitalGusta Kious, 81, of 1601 50th Avenue, 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 Nevada—Clear today, tftniff 'ltd Satytday, slowly rising daytime wtilurwMonterey Boy Area—Clear today, to-ii#ht and Saturday: warmer afternoons OAKLAND PRECIPITATIONLast 24 hours. 0; last year, J3.07; this year* lt.52, normal, 17.12 ’AC1FIC CbASt TEMPERATURESHigh Low5ft 40Rcno 6? 411Rns*hur*32 Sacramento51 36,San Diego 53 Francisco 57 M .....to tofAirport *5 45.Hatch Hetchy 52 321 Santa Barbara 62 40iKmi City to CTisama Rosa to 34I Los An«ek* 65 47 [Seattle 55 34i \ifbum Bakersfield Boi*eColu** Eureka Port Bragg FresnoHigh Low 45 15 51 to64 40 to 3765 4ftMercedNeedlesOaklandto 35;Soda Spring* 71 2075 50 Spokane 60 37iStockton'Ptoo RoWas to 35 SusanviilePhoenix Pocatello Portland HeddinffPRECIPITATION76 44|Tonfpah 37 27. William*51 37[Wihn*muCci 63 43iVuma46 28to 32 to 22 to 22 65 37 41 2271 50Match Hetchy, T T'cH.-teliti. 08 Portland, .#3; Rweiiurv 02, Soda Springs i.1*; Winnemucca. .01Orindo Rap Shot lit Eye While HuntingiOftlNDA, April 13.—A lead pellet from an air pump fun. believed to have richocheted from a tree while he and a companion were hunting blue jays yesterday, punctured the left eye hd of Boyd Wickman, 15. He is in Berkeley Hospital and it i* Pvt 41 known whether his eyesight will be impaired,Boyd, son of Mr. and Mrs Emil E. Wickmen of • Loma Vista, war. hunting in the lightly wooded area at the rear of the Ormda Fire House with Dick Laney. 13, son of R. H Laney of f Rio Vista Road, when the accident occurred yesterday,Deputy Ifcwilli P. It. DomMmhiNf George Hinckley invtstifatodtthePrMy )om tondotgh, Ikttf ft#of coin odd loob NX m iftMaM*ImA pscHcr iriMn befaj vorbAmIIwe lh* e»4 OReewm,Imi ywoM*4«y ftii An ftO• to
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Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California, US
Fri, Apr 13, 1945
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