Evening star., 1945-02-25
Wife Of Hero Of Los Bonos
Recalls Courship Begon There
Mrs. SouIe overjoyed
By Husbands Feut
In Freeing Internees

Mrs. Robert H. soule, wife of the
colonel leading the paratroopers
who freed Americans from the Los
Banos prison camp on Luzon, is
pretty sure that even as he led his
men to battle he thought OF her.
That's because he met her at a
party at Los Banos "a years ago
and took her there frequently dur
ing their years courtship.
He always said he met his for
tune at Los Banos," Mrs. Soule
said. I'm SO glad he made his
name there, too"
Mrs. Soule hives with their To-
year-old daughter, "Ginsy," at the
Highlands Apartments on Connec-
ticut avenue. She was sitting in
the front room yesterday, looking
at pictures collected during their
tours of duty in China. Then the
phone rang. Another Army wife
had heard the news on the radio.
Reporters arrived. ''Ginsy," over
come with excitement, rushed out
to the movies to celebrate. Jockey,
the terrier, was allowed to hop on
the sofa at will
Wife Is Very Proud.
Through it all Mrs. Soule could
only murmur: I'm SO proud.
Please, don't take my picture or
quote me. I only keep his home.
I want him to have all the credit,
all the publicity. He's so wonder
full"
Mrs. Soule told a story of long
suspense about the fate of her hus-
band.
Like the good soldier he is," she
said. "he told me nothing"
He went to New Guinea a year
ago where, at A years of age, he
took the tough paratrooper course
He refused to command the para
troopers added to his glider trained
group unless he could do all they
could. He sent her a picture after
the Leyte invasion, with I'VE dood
it" written on the back. The pic
ture worried her. He looked 40
pounds thinner. Next she heard a
comrade Of his in the 18th Air
borne had been killed. Letters grew
less frequent.
Only IL hours before she heard
the good news, Mrs. Soule admitted,
she had been as low in her mind
as any Army girl by birth" and
Army wife by training" will ever
allow herself to be. She dragged
out maps Of Los Banos. wondering
If he would ever reach there and
sure he would be thinking of her
when he did.
Today all that is changed. The
phone keeps on ringing. Visitors
have been crowding in to look at
his pictures and at his Army di-
plomas and commissions hung in
a long double row on the wall. Col.
Soule is regular Army officer en-
listing and receiving a commission
in the World War.
Native of Wyoming.
He is a native Of Wyoming and
attended the University of Wyom-
ing OF which his father, the late
Justus Soule, was vice president.
He saw World War duty with a ST.
berian expedition. He was sta
toned with the 31st Infantry in the
Philippines when he went to party
at Los Banos and met. a slight
blond girl visiting her uncle, Col.
Thomas r. Harker, then command
ing the 45th Infantry, stationed at
Fort Mckinley near Manila.
The couple were married a year
later : Fort Mckinley. After seven
years duty in the United States. Col.
Soule served four years in Peking,
China, as Chinese language officer
-Four more years with the Civilian
Conservation Corps in the United
States were followed by a return as
signment to China. but the Soules
were evacuated after only a year