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Show SUNDAY HERALD - 3 SUNDAY APRIL 9, 1SS1 V 'Utah Comity. Utah ".W.-- , .'AV.v.'Wi' fit ra ' Recalls Pearl Harbor e rem Man Survivor Utah I n A V V MOf'DAY J i.. j , . TILL NIGHTS 31 4 a- - M m p. Dins ZD 2 Will ("-- Guest Of Honor H At Bell Presentation Monday at Clearfield Be - 4, . . 5 ID When the ship's bell from the old battleship Utah is turned over to the state tomorrow at the Clearfield Naval Station an Orem man will be watching, whose last memories of the gallant ship are the Jap bombs that -- sent her to the bottom of Pearl Harbor. For Thomas E. Adams, 542 6thE., Orem,! the ceremony will be a vivid reminder of that fateful day on Dec. 7, 1941, because he was aboard the old Utah when she was sunk. Decommissioned as a - battleship many years be- fore, the Utah had been converted to training use as ,a mobile target for modern craft. But she still had "a compliment of about 400 men- - aboard when she rode at anchor among other Navy ships the morning . of the Jap sneak attack; ' Mr. Adams is believed to be one of only two Utah men aboard the ship named after their home state at the time; He does not recall the other one, except that his name was Christensen. . Since he had been on late duty Dec.'- - 6, Mr. Adams recalls that he was still in his bunk when ' he and he heard the first shell-hi- t moment that other thought for a were ; shooting at the UIS. ships Utah, though he realized that the vessel was in the harbor. As the '. third bomb struck the now badly) listing ship, ; he began working his way topside where everything was a "mass of utter with , men running confusion"' through Japanese aerial machine gun fire in desperate attempts to get into the water although many couldn't swim v and1 immediately drowned. Others were ordeied away from the rail only to be trapped and: drowned moments ml f I 1 u VERY FINEST Imported Hand Hooked Hand Made ' 4 v . r ,1. IDEAL BIRDSEYE ' 'ROOSTER' CHAIR PADS 'k V - MEMORIES OF FATEFUL DAY Thomas E. Aaaino, urem, one of the survivors of the old battleship Utah when she was sunk at. Pearl Harbor, recalls the fateful hours as he looks over a recent feature in The Daily Herald on the Utah's sinking. He'll' be a guest of honor tomorrow when the: ship's bell is presented to the state of Utah at ceremonies scheduled at the Clearfield Naval Station ' i'J rill'l ' I . , . . i ; later when the ship .rolled over. About half of the Utah's 400 men " i :. t I Utah Couny Deputy Sheriff Fork, who will serve until 1965, Merit Commission, meeting Fri- as, chairman. day in, county commission offices, Former County Sheriff Therpn named Fred Fish, American Hall, Springville, will serve un-til 1963, and Floyd Harmer, Pay-so' until 1967. channel, an battery manned in the super structure: of Last November, voters approvthe California fired at them, ed putting sheriff's deputies under thinking that "the enemy had "re- a f merit system, and state law turned. The bullets came across now provides for a commission in the channel penetrating the side each county of three, of whom no of the Arragonne and killed both more than two can be of the same the man in front and 'behind Mr. political party. ' , ". ' Adams. .. y ("The commission, Friday agreed Later hewas transferred to the to .contact the Utah State HighUSS Honolulu and served in the way 'Patrol and Salt Lake City, battle of Tassafronga and the two Ogden and Provo Police Depart battles at Kula Gulf. ments for information as to their The postwar years brought him respective civil service systems marriage,'. ' four children, and a for peace officers,,! and consider job ' at the Geneva Steel Plant, also the findings of a Utah where he now works on the ship County; job classification study of 1955. ping docks of the rolling mills. ' . 'OtJ 1 sif Chairman Named For Merit Board were drownect or killed by enemy ' v fire.'. . i ''' reAdams The next thing Mr. himself membered was finding on the shore lying in a ditch used for: culinary water. How he left the ship or got to dry land still a blank.. remains ' Later in the day the .survivors were issued clothing and giv en diesel oil to remove the coating of crude oil floating on the water from the sunken ships. He recalls that it was about a week before they could get fresh water supplies for bathing. Though the attack was over, Mr. Adams' closest brush .with death came as he was standing in chow line that evening on the cargo, ship Arragone. 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