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Show DESERET Remember Doolittle Raid? This Utahn Does! (Editor' note: Today mark me 27m onnlver. ry of e enational World War II incident. The (allowing Is an account ot It as told by a Utann who was Oeeoly Involved.) Deseret News Staff Writer m A young second lieutenant from Hyrum, Utah, had no way of knowing the meeting he was about to attend would start him on one of tho most daring and important missions of World War II. ' ,0Q $ , y .. - 1) tit t KztKffr.- V Before he returned from that mission, Lt. Chase Jay Nielsen would find himself in a web of secrecy, rain of gunfire, a life jacket in an ocean storm and a real torture chamber. it . . - )j - 5C0-fo- top-secr- said. Silence. ' By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Our baby is six months old. Although he cant crawl too well yet, he enjoys standing up with our A moment in history. During war crimes trial after war, Nielsen put the finger on Japanese prison camp commander. Nielsen os he looked on retirement from Air Force recently. At sea, the "Hornet rendezvoused with the cruiser "Salt Lake City and four destroyers. Later, they met the car- rier "Enterprise and other escort sels and headed for Japan. At first, the sailors didnt know ves- any- thing about the mission. Then Doolittle announced: "Our purpose is to bomb Tokyo and Japan. Your mission is to get us there. Give us a good ride, please." The sailors exploded into a pandemonium of excitement Those they were betting, could never get airborne off the deck. Between training sessions and Usten-- . ing to "Maria Elena and You Are My and Sunshine "Elmers Tune on rec- ords, the fliers made personal plans for the mission. The pilots cut cards to see who would bomb the Emperors Palace in Tokyo. Doolittle found out about it and blew up. "This is a military mission, he zled. "You men are NOT to bomb palace or any other civilian area. will hit only military targets industries helping the Japanese siz- the You and war effort. At that time, LL Chase J. Nielsen had no idea what a significant effect Japawho lived in nese Emperor Hirohito would have on the Utahns the palace life. On the morning of April 13, 1942, and with the Hornet 800 miles from Japan, an enemy lookout ship came into view. The Americans opened fire and sank the Japanese craft, hopefully before word of their presence was flashed to Tokyo. But they could not be sure. had been schedTakeoff for the uled for that evening, but now the Japa B-2- nese might know. The closer the "Hornet got to Japan, the more chance e the bombers would have to reach safety in China. The brass decided to start the mission immediately. Lt. Nielsen took his navigator's post in the "Green Hornet. It was sixth in line for takeoff. Capt. Dean Hallmark, the pilot, throttled to maximum power with the brakes locked. Then the bombladen "Green Hornet thundered down the short, short deck. As it reached the end, the bow of the carrier tilted upward on a swell. short-rang- , "We just hung there by the props," said Nielsen. After the "Green Hornet was aloft, another plane had engine trouble on the deck. Sailors were getting ready to pull it off the flight line. "Gimme one more chance! shouted The Critical Need For Reason By LAVORK. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor "Come now, and let us reason together, the Lord is quoted in the Bibles Book of Isaiah. No one will question the soundness of this counsel, but there will help. be many who will We cant see any harm in this, but disregard it. our parents are having fits. They say he Just now in Utah will be In fact, when they there are several are holding him and he tries to stand, e d u cationd conthey plop him down. Would you comment troversies in which on this? S.J.L. the intensive appliAnswer: The principal causes of bow cation of reasen Is much desired. legs are faulty diet and heredity. Rickets One of these is the split in the Utah (from insufficient vitamin D and sunshine and a serious lack of calcium in Education Association between factions the diet) is the worst offender. supporting Dr. John C. Evans Jr., UEA executive secretary, and those supporting of this the in world, part Fortunately, of there is little valid excuse for rickets, Darrell M. Kelley, executive director and bowed legs and misshapen bones are the Utah Council for Improvement of Education (UCIE). The UCIE was organfar less common than a couple of generaized several years ago to function as the tions ago. political action arm of the UEA. Standing up isnt what gives babies Much of the future of the UEA and its for bow legs. I suppose its natural grandparents to be overly concerned about br.bies (I feel the urge myself, when the babies are visiting us). But babies know Instinctively when they want to stand up. If it is too early, they just bow-legge- YOUR SCHOOLS ability to continue to function as a major force in state education matters depends on how, and how quickly, this controversy is settled. If the controversy should be permitted to splinter the teacher organization, teachers colletively will become a less effective voice. Another controversy concerns the sex education program in the Ogden city schools. Typically in controversies of this nature, involving such potentially personal matters, opposing sides become highly polarized and compromise heroines very difficult. The highest order of reasoning together is called for in this situation. is the one the decision of the Dixie College administration to decline to renew contracts of certain faculty members. As in the Ogden situation, there is an extra element of hazard in the Dixie controversy. In a small city, campus controversies turn into community controversies in A third controversy which the wisdom of Solomon would be insufficient to restore peace and confidence. Perhaps even more critical than either of these confrontations is the growing one between teachers and school boards on levels of pay. Here the words from Isaiah are particularly pertinent School boards and teachers must "reason together and they must do so in candor, good feeling and good faith. If this controversy should be settled on the basis of raw power, Utahs 300,000 school children are sure to be the losers. Reason and compromise must prevail. Too many teachers and too many school board members harbor the notion that compromise is equivalent to capitulation. Democratic government on any level is possible only through compromise. Typically, each side gives a little until they meet on common ground. Lets hope that in the days and weeks immediately ahead, all the parties in these controversies and others that will respond may exist or b imminent to the call, "Come now, and let us reason together. it Of course, it is pointless to take a very tiny infant and hold him up to try to make him walk. If he isnt ready, hell just refuse to put any weight on his legs. The danger in this isnt to his legs, but in the risk that (if he is held by his arms) a joint capsule in the shoulder may be damaged. I hope the grandparents will soon cease their worries. Any time a baby is willing to try to stand, he can safely do so without fear of legs becoming bowed. Dear Dr. Thosteson: What are some causes of recurring bladder infections in women? It seems I just get one cleared up and another comes along. I am 26 and have been bothered for about two years. , - Mrs. M.H. Answer: One probability is that, instead of getting new Infections, you have not totally subdued an old one. It is characteristic of bladder (and kidney) infections to flare up this way. You probably would profit from reading my booklet, "Your Kidneys: Facts You Need to Know About Them. For a copy, send 23 cents and a stamped envelope to Dr. Thosteson, care of .The Deseret News, J?.0. Box 1257, Salt City, Utah 84110! MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor As it has for many years, the annual Orehesis concert by the Modern Dance Department at the University of Utah that opened in Kingsbury Hall Thursday again stretched the boundaries of the art of contemporary "Dance dance. proves a source of wonderful delight just because of the clever, unusual, and effective staging, sets, costuming, and lighting. Each of these stage crafts scores impressively. And, bless em, there isnt a really depressing or unwholesome minute in the long snow. If each of the dances Isn't hilarious, at least it is fun and enjoyable and always in good 69 taste. Almost through every minute of "Dance 69" the audience should find delight in theatrical discovery. The wonderful shadow of that giant of theatrical projections, Alwin Nikolais, can be seen and felt in many of the presentations. never-endin- g Joan Woodbury, who has tudied with and now 'teaches with Mr. Nikolais in summer master classes around the nation has choreographed the major work of "Dance 69," "Exados. Is an abstract exploration Exados of illusions, the ability of the tody to transform itself, to create images. There are some beautiful executed gymnastics performed by four girls on a guy wire. This device is again used in the final section when eight girls fly out over the audience after doing some clev- er flying on stage. Of the many dances that I have seen from the creative mind of Mrs. Woodbury, I think "Exados" is her finest and mast polished work. It easily deserves to come at the end of the show as a fitting climax to Dance 69." fun piece that is little more tlu.n 24 boys and girls dashing around, across, stage, titled "Now currently brings "Dance 69 to a close. It is hardly climactc or artistically worthy of its place a the end of the show. Though lt is A a fun dance, Its amplified so unbelievably loud that Is it makes "Dance 69 end not high in the artistic clouds but down on the level of hypnotic and dissonant pandemonium. rock-n-ro- ll "Dance 69 opens with a delightful "Suite de Danses that comes close to the disciplines of classical ballet. is the Marx Brothers "Disposables approach to "You are expendable," with just about as much fun and nonsense. "Luminaries Is a beautiful staged and lighted bit of abstract something thRt must have taken the lighting crews hours to work up so interestingly. "Creatures: Diurnal and Nocturnal" was more abstractions, that left one viewer rather bewildered. My companion suggested that it could be retitled, after all the roll"Stage ing on the floor which really doesn't make for vei-- attractive dancing. Aside from the two exceptions noted, "Dance 69 is an exciting spectacle that will be given performances Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. And you will never knew what fun you are mining if you arent in Kingsbury llall for one of these two performances. Wiper-Upper- dance-theatr- . 5 ... court-martialle- island-hoppin- g f Wit's BIG TALK Stretching The Boundaries Of Dance wont try es appeared on the target. Then flashes of another kind apThey are trying to upgrade the lowly, peared. They came from wallowing pig . . . give the animal a betguns below. ter image. That's like trying to get Ma Puffs of smoke appeared. A chunk of Kettle the Miss America title, flak d the cockpit windBut the boys are doing it through the shield. National Pork Producers Council. And Hallmark called the Don they in turn hired a Madison Avenue Fitzmaurice, on the intercom. public relations firm. An ad executive, "You all right back there? the pilot whose only contact barked. with a pig was "A lot of little holes are popping up linked with a platback here, came the calm reply. Those ter of eggs at "little holes were from Japanese ma- breakfast, came chine gun bullets. up with a slogan: Hallmark turned the ', Green Hornet "Hogs and headed back for another run on the beautiful!" With the bombs released, the target. Now, you know plane fled for China. that hogs are only Hie "Green Hornet died of fuel starvation. Hallmark ditched her about five beautiful to other miles from China. Impact in the choppy hogs. sea crushed bombardier Bill Dieter, and The slogan was a counterattack slammed Fitzmaurices head against a against the "Keep America Beautiful backplate. people. All five crewmen got out of the Some ot the pork council members, plane, but the life raft malfunctioned. The men with nothing better to do than watch the tried to lash themselves together, but the Idiot tube, saw the commercial that the waves washed them apart. Dieter and Keep America Beautiful group put on the Fitzmaurice died in the water. air. It was on littering. It compared peoNielsen, Hallmark and Bob Meder found each other ashore. But Japple who litter our streets, parks and anese troops were active in the area, beaches to hogs. It showed a pig rolling and, after a chase in the walled city of around in a mud puddle. Wenchow, the crew was captured. was in the fire. The pork The pig-fa- t Their captors wanted to know where council was really steaming. the fliers came from, but none would They ordered a couple of thousand of tell. the buttons with their new slogan across Japanese soldiers drove bamboo the front. It was mostly for members of the pig fraternity, but everyone wanted spikes between the fingers of the prisoners and set the bamboo afire. The fliers one. More buttons with "Hogs are beauti- could have stopped it by saying they flew ful on the front had to be ordered. a off the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet Requests came from salesmen, airline 740 miles off Japan. But they refused. stewardesses, college students, feed com I Nielsen was blindfolded, taken to a panies, tdachers, housewives. buttons better a than The had told he and that to was rating courtyard going be executed. "Laugh In and were getting more "I knew the sound of rifle butts hit- chuckles. Then it spread to Washington. Conting cement, and I knew when the officer gave three more commands, Id be gressman Laurence Burton wore one, done, Nielsen said. according to a member of his staff. Then ; The commands didnt come. Higher-up- s Iowa Rep. Fred Schwengel went Laurence one better. He made a speech in abruptly ordered the trio of crewCongress put the Keep America-Beautifmen from the "Green Hornet taken ; boys on the griddle. from Wenchow to Tokyo. Questioned and tortured again, they still refused to talk. Maybe he had just gotten his raisJ So a Japanese tribunal and felt he had to earn it. d . them, and sentenced them to die as war I checked with a pig raiser locally: He ; criminals. said that a pig is not only beautiful, but It was a popular decision in Japan. is a most intelligent animal. ; The Doolittle Raid angered the nation. It "There is nothing more beautiful than had also changed the tide of war. To a herd of pigs in an alfalfa field, he meet the threat of more American raids, said. the Japanese pulled a strong carrier fleet "It may be hard for city people like out of the Indian Ocean, where it had he went you Salt Lakers to understand, knocked out a British fleet and was ramon, "but if a pig is raised in modern paging at will there. facilities with lots of space and fresh air, The Japanese also tied up many the animal is cleaner in its habits than planes in the homeland that might have most people." been used in operations. I agree it is hard to understand. And America didnt know that Doolittle lets agree that pigs should have plenty ', had led the raid until a month later, and of space and fresh air. That I undereven then President Franklin D. Roosestand. velt didnt name the planes takeoff "A sow is a good provider for her point. Instead of saying they left the young, she protects them from harm, he used the term "Shangri-L- a teaches them clean "Hornet, habits, he said. a fictional paradise island in the Well, that, knowing maybe Chief of novel "Lost Horizon. Police Dewey Fillis shouldnt get so-- , After Nielsen and the seven other upset with some of the names his men Tokyo raiders captured by the Japanese get called. But as soon as the bearded were sentenced to die, an argument ones around the park learn what a beauarose emong the Japanese high comtiful animal a pig is, they will come up mand. Gen. Hideki Tojo argued that the with a different name. men were prisoners of war and should I do have to agree . . . good ham, g not be shot. bacon or pork chops are beautiful ; Another general said they should be executed. End Then, for some mysterious reason, Hirohito senreduced the death Emperor Westley Johnson says he can rememtence to life imprisonment for five of the ber when all the data processing was captives. done when the neighborhood gals got to- Nielsen was one of them. gether over the back fence. Hallmark and two others disappeared niiiiiiiiiiH'iiiiimfliinmimiiiiisiiiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiu from the prison camp one day, and Nielsen learned after the war they had been executed. One day in 1943 the prison governor permitted Nielsen to leave his solitary confinement and sit in the sun with Meder. co-pil- YOUR HEALTH Children Know When To Stand By HARRY JONES Its just a lot of hog wash, but . . , You just won't believe what the pig fanciers are up to now. I guess "fancier" is the correct word. It's people like the Carlson brothers of Spanish Fork, or John Rokich out Magna way. In fact, it is all of the pig raisers around the nation who are in on the act. spider-webbe- About 250 airmen were sitting in that old theater. Every one stood up. Doolittle explain'd that he couldnt" yet. Speculation arose. say more Would they be headed for England to fly missions across the channel? The B25s bombers. they flew were short-rang- e takeoffs they were Did the learning mean theyd be going off aircraft carriers? If so, where? Why? Then one day in March, Doolittle spilled the mission during a briefing. "Were going to bomb Japan, he B-2- d anti-aircra- ft volunteer." d Better Look Again At That Beauty Corr. ng in low, 1,300 feet, the "Green headed for a steel mill and smelter on Tokyo Bay. The bombardier released part of the bomb load and flash- session. But when a major introduced a short, slight man named Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, things started crackling. "A mission's coming up, said Doolittle. "A dangerous one. Its strictly voluntary. WeU need about 24 crews, and well be out of the country about 90 days. I need to know how many of you would land-base- They met a Japanese patrol plane on a collision course. Navy planes shot It down. Had the plane messaged Tokyo about the coming raid? None of the fliers could know. Hornet er yawn J3-2- 5 OUR MAN JONES cream-colore- When Lt. Nielsen walked into the old named That night, Lt. Nielsens the Green Hornet" pulled out of Florida and headed for Alameda, Calif. There, lt and 15 other normally planes, were loaded aboard the aircraft carrier "Hornet." The men got one last night of shore leave. "We went to the Top 0 the Mark in San Francisco and ate and ate, said Nielsen. "Then we looked out over the bay and saw something that frightened us. There was the Hornet with all those on her deck for all the world to see. The populace assumed the planes were being ferried to Hawaii. the pilot. "Please gimme one more chance. He got it. The engine caught and the plane took off. All 16 of the got into the air. The planes were headed for Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama and Nagoya each craft with its own target. As the "Green Hornet roared over Tokyo, Nielsen easily spotted the Imperial Palace, a structure surrounded by a moat. The crew had decided that if their plane were mortally crippled, theyd head it for the palace. : theater at Columbia, S.C., with other Army Air Corpmen that February day in 1942, he thought it might be just anoth- World War II was only four months old. The Japanese had left the United States Pacific fleet a smoking ruin at Pearl Harbor, pushed American troops off the Philippines, and were mauling Allied forces at many points. But now . . . Tokyo! "If word about this mission gets out, the Japanese will be waiting for us, so keep it quiet, said Doolittle. Friday, April 18, 1969 s By STEVE HALE He would face a firing squad, hear a court of generals sentence him to face another one, win a reprieve from the leader of an enemy nation, and weather 40 months of oblivion. Al NEWS, e "Im dying, Meder said. "I want you to see my Mom and Dad after the war. Tell them I love them and tell them Im sorry . . Im sorry for cracking up the car and all that other stuff I did. . . . Meder died two days later from dysentery. That left Nielsen the only survivor 0! the "Green Hornet. For 40 months Nielsen sat by himself in his cell. When a parachute rescue team landed to libente them, one of the Americans asked who he was. Nielsen said he was one ot the Doolittle raiders. Turning to his buddies, the rescuer said: "Watch this one, hes off his trolley. They shot all those guys years ago. Of the eight who were captured, four came back. That was the title of a book written about their adventure: "Four Came Back. It may become a movie. Nielsen and the 55 other survivors of the Tokyo raid were reunited at Biloxi, 27 years after they Miss., this weekend ff the deck of the all screamed "Hornet, hung there by the props for a moment then roared away over the shimmering Pacific. r e ' jr 9) '4 !!: y. 'N i A"&fim n "The mosi demand is the ever hear you'll baby calling for his 3 a.m. feeding!" Prom ojo'oi Dost fctw lllllllll ttn by tionti v. WcNmy lor ffw popular ao iy Bob S.'lnoay looture. ;iiiiiiiiiiiiii:ii'h V |