U.S. MAJOR’S REFUSAL

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1946, Page 3

U.S. MAJOR’S REFUSAL

To Leave His Leper Wife (Rec. 7.0.) SAN FRANCISCO, May 15. An American Army officer, Major Hans Hornbostel, whose wife developed leprosy during the Japanese imprisonment, which they endured together, has refused to leave her side, and petitioned to share her fate at. the leper colony, at Carville, Louisiana. “I am sixty-five and have had my fling at life,” declared Major Hhrnbostel, who was formerly a Manila magazine executive. “I want just one thing in the world —to be with my wife.”

To a lesser degree, the positions were reversed at the outbreak of the war when Mrs. Hornbostel rejected a chance, offered through the sponsorship of her German brother, to remain free, and elected to accompany her husband into internment.