Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1951 — Page 26

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‘Has Washington Forgotten?—

Comfortable? Then Read About Two Families Who'll Never Smile Again

By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb, 23- Corliss Ann Hamilton, a pretty little girl of 3 years, is dead today because her soldier father - sent here to help defend America—couldn’t find a decent place for his family to live. Corliss Ann burned tg death the other night in a fire that destroyed her home, a homemade, two- oom cabin. Apparently an oil

lamp-—the cabin's only illuminatenp rarneg over It was all EDITOR'S NOTE: As you over in about 10 minutes, sit at home, it is difficult to They say there was a smile on visualize the hardships endured Corliss Ann's face when they dug| DY the soldiers who man Amer. her blackened body out of the fea’s outposts. In the second smoking ruins. - That's possible] ©f ® series Andrew Tully, because the had been asleep and Seripps-Howard reporter, tells little girls dream the pleasant-| Mow these men live. The

est of dreams. |September. cabin wasn't!

But Cpl. Thomas Hamilton, |what Mrs, Hamilton had dreamed her father, wasn’t smiling. The [or but it was home and it wa

neighbors had to pull him away, | where Tommy, her husband, was, screaming, when he tried to |1pat was important. That made run into the flames to get Cor- lup for no sink. Has Ann. He already had ear- | “hat made up for heating w ried 2-year-old Johnny out of |¢,r hours on the stove for launthe Inferno, but no man could dry and for midnight trips to the have gone into that cabin again {privy and for the hard times they

and lived. ‘had getting doctors to come when Mrs. Hamilton wasn't smilingi,,0 of the kids was sick.

either. She hasn't smiled since.| 4,4 after all sever several hun | For Johnny is in a hospital with | servicemen were living fn houses burns over three-quarters of his just as bad—and paying outlandchubby body and he may not live. js; nrices to private landlords for And everything the Hamiltons ). privilege. This was the 1had In worldly possessions 18 ;;ione' own home, and the back gone, {of the hand to all landlords,

CPL. TOM HAMILTON had Now, been a pretty proud man, too. He 5 sure she wants to make the came to Alaska 10 months ago, ®~Ort of living in Alaska so her leaving word with his wife that husband can be content while he * she and the kids could follow as|Delps defend America. She is soon as he found a place for them |thinking of going back home to to live. | Victoria, Tex.

He took a look at the one-room IT SEEMS Orn: ¢ too much to shacks without plumbing where; just as it seemed too much the local landlords get $85 a to take for 1 Virgil Mi month and up and decided to take wife of one of those A iE jet matters into his own hands. He pilots you hear so much hoot Bougut 8 Mille plot of land and | Mes Miller left foday for home . |in Nebraska — jus e What he bullt wasn't much. It ;.. yiqq Kit a, the 4 wasnt as good, for that matter, 51, “pi virgil Miller couldn't as the shacks he had turned go with them, because he was down. They at least had elec-|goaq ' Shelly. bus there was lime on Lt. Miller was dead because he ta pl. Ha Niwas serving his country when his ia 10 satisfied with ofl lamps. jet cracked up in the weather. t he had his own well, and a This was not considered unusual pretty comfortable toilet with a pecause - ‘ot pilot realizes he is couple of little seats for kids. And risking neck daily in this he partitioned the 10 by 18 cabin|Ajask: er and these Alaska into two rooms so the kids could) | mount: id you are not supget to bed early and not be kept posed to . corny and talk about awake by lights and the parents’ it or else somebody will think you small talk in the evenings. are a hero or something. Mrs. ““amilton and their two| So they buried Lt. Virgil Milchildre. came to Alaska last ler, the boy from Nebraska, ‘with |}

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full military honors, which was Millers and Hamiltons put up| |nice for those who can see them. with all this, that they are will|And the officers’ wives came to see ing to live like they did because {Mrs. Miller and were sorry be- America needed them. But ft cause officers’ wives in the AIr makes you kind of ashamed of Force know how it is. Their hus- yours And, because you saw bands fly, too. Corliss Ann Hamilton's hody a Then, today, after everybody few hours ago, it makes you pretsaid what little could be said, Mrs. ty mad at the people who run Miller left. things back in Washington, She didn't leave much. For The Millers and Hamiltons

Lt. Virgil Miller, crack jet pilot, | stood for all these hardships lived with his family in a | because they had hope. Things trailer, were going to be better, every-

It's a strange thing. Back in Washington people wouldn't spend one night in the Millers’ trailer for fear they'd catch cold. But the Millers, living in a country where the mercury drops to 25 or| 30 degrees below zero, thought | (they had quite a good deal. That's because, unlike most MALARIA CONTROL servicemen around here—or any-| Control of malaria in an area where in Alaska—they had run- of Pakistan has resulted in a

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