Custodian prefers Flint
By LINDA BROWNING
Kansas Staff Writer
James Lewis, custodian at Flint Hall, will take the peacefulness of Flint despite its bomb scares any day compared to his nerve-racking adventures as a Navy seaman 1st class on the USS Utah during the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Lewis still remembers details of that Sunday morning, December 7,1941, when everything was quiet and most of the service men were "on liberty" for the weekend.
"The Utah had been used as a practice target ship for aircraft carriers for nine weeks before the fateful day," Lewis recalls. She had been circling the harbor and planes would drop smoke bombs on logs which had been piled on the deck.
"But Sunday morning was different," Lewis said. All my shipmates had 'spooky' suspicions that something was going to happen." They had just returned from "chow" and were heading down into the deck division when they heard a loud noise. "No one was particularly alarmed, however, because it sounded like the hatch cover had slipped off."
Not long afterwards, another loud noise occurred, jolting the ship. The chief petty officer came down into the division yelling "The Japs are after us!"
"We couldn't make it to the top deck because the Jaws were strafing the ship," he said. Their panic heightened when they realized the ship was slightly listing and water was rushing in one side.
When the firing slackened, the crewmen were ordered to slide down the side of the ship and wait on the narrow blisters decks until motor launches could rescue them.
Prof publishes book
Richard T. De George, chairman of the KU philosophy department, will publish a book March 14, "Soviet Ethics and Morality," a survey of Soviet philosophy today.
De George considers the basis, structure and content of Soviet ethical theory in the book, analyzes the justification and implications of the new Communist moral code and relates this code to present day Western views and contemporary moral dilemmas facing mankind.
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Once in the water, the crew swam only 10 feet to the launches that slowly transported them to Forbe's Island Air Base. "It was an eerie feeling to look back and see the Utah on its side with the keel facing outward.
"Luck was on our side," Lewis reflected. "We used some pipe ditches to dodge the machine gun fire coming from aircraft overhead when we finally reached land.
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James Lewis
Today
Red Cross Blood Drive. 11-5:15
n.m. Kawasaki Union Bellboom
p.m. Kansas Union Ballroom.
Henry Werner Lecture, 3 p.m. Prof.
Lafontin Effer, Cornell University,
"Malt Effor," World
Environment", 124 Malott.
Le Cercle Frances se reuniru
mercredi la programe. Programme
dans Jayahawk.
Monsieur le professeur R. W. Tobin:
conference sur "Phedre" tragie de
Carillon Recital. 7 p.m. Albert Gerken
Classical Film 5 m. & 9 p.m. "An Eagling Douglas Fairbanks Dairy Auditorium
SUA Culture Forum. 7:30 p.m.
"Students, Studies, and Revolts in Spain." Juan Manuel Fernandez.
Pearson College Conference Room.
AIAA. 7:30 p.m. Dr. David L.
Kohlman. 7:30 p.m. Runway
竞赛场. 2004 Learned.
Lecture. 8 p.m. prof. Michael L. Katzev, Oberlin College. "Excavating a Greek Shipwreck-Kyrenaia, Cyprus. Kansas University Pine Room.
Guest Recital. 8 p.m. Piet Kee, organist, Swarthout Recital Hall.
Tomorrow
Red Cross Blood Drive. 9-3 p.m.
Kansas Uniting Bulldoorm.
Lecture. 3 p.m. Prof. Cole. "Man's World Environment," 124 Malayalam.
Lecture 4: Dr. Trivin, Leahanken bank of Spaniards in a new world. "Kansas and Spaniards in a new world."
Guest Recital. 8 p.m. Byrnell Figler, pianist. Swarthout Recital Hall
Rock Chalk Revue. 8 p.m. Hoch
Auditorium.
The first native American to be made a baronet was William Appledore of Maine, honored by George II in 1745 for capturing a French fort.
"We got a change of clothes from the Red Cross and could look out the window and see the USS Arizona disappear in a heavy puff of smoke in the distance." He learned later that one bomb had gone directly down its stack.
Lewis' assignment on the Utah was completed anyway, and he worked on a yard tug for three weeks. For the remainder of his $4 \frac{1}{2} $ years, he worked on the USS
Lewis was born in Germany, but landed in New York when he was five months old. He was raised in Manhattan. He attributes his "ease at sea" to the fact that he made his first ship voyage at such an early age.
Maryland, which had also been damaged, and participated in raids on the Fiii Islands.
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Lewis has worked nine years at KU and finds Flint a "friendly" place to work.
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