NURSE SAVED IN RIVER AFTER FALL OFF WALL

A month after she returned from service with the Army Nurse Corps in Europe and the China-Burma-India theatre, Miss Jennie Mensch, 42 years old was rescued from drowning in the East River yesterday after spending more than a half-hour in the water off Welfare Island. 

Miss Mensch, who is a nurse at City Hospital on the island and lives at a nurses' residence there, was walking along the seawall about noon when she stumbled and fell into the river on the Queens side.  Although she is a strong swimmer, the swift undertow began pulling her away from shore.

Transcribed From the New York Times April 22, 1946