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VOL. LXXIV, NO. 92
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HEEDS MOTHER'S PLEA
Accidentally Freed
Convict Surrenders
FOUR CORNERS OF U.S. JOIN HANDS — Among the newcomers registering this
week at Abilene Christian College are four students from the geographical "corners"
of the United States. Joining hands in thi s picture are, front row, left to right, Carol-
ine McGuire, Porterville, Calif., and Marian Crowson, Gainesville, Fla.; back row, Clio
Eldred, Bellingham, Wash., and Bob Thorn as, Bangor, Me.
FORT WORTH (—Donald Bou-
chillon walked quietly into the
county jail this morning and gave
himself up.
Sentenced to serve the rest of
his life in the Texas penitentiary,
he was freed from prison 12 days
ago by a mixup in records there.
Police throughout the nation
were being alerted for the 26-year-
old Fort Worth hoodlum, convicted
here last year as a habitual crim-
inal.
He was described as dangerous
and reportedly had threatened he
was out for revenge on a deputy
sheriff and an assistant district at-
torney here who helped send him
to prison.
PEAK AT ACC -- • € v erm ■
Enrollments Housewife S Shots
A3 Colleges Rout Man Prowler
Dice 2 Prowlers who like to remain
ADV 0ye0“ healthy would better stay away
„ .from 1773 Walnut St.
Abilene s three colleges counted
noses Thursday and found that so
far 3,384 students have enrolled
for the fall semester.
Abilene Christian College was
expecting a record enrollment of
That warning was sounded
Thursday morning by Mrs. June
Hutchins, 21, who lives there.
As the man was making his get-
away, Mrs. Hutchins shot at him
three times. She was disappointed
that she missed her target, but
says she must have shot mighty
close to him.
When she realized the prowler
had got out of range of her fire,
Mrs. Hutchins telephoned the po-
lice.
1,700 students. Hardin - Simmons
University and McMurry College
were running near their 1051 to-
tals.
By noon Thursday, ACC had
registered 1,646 pupils since Tues-
day. In 1953, the college had en-
rolled 1.435 students in three days
of registration.
Final registration count last
year at ACC hit 1,557.
Registrar Ken Rasco expressed
confidence that the expected 1,700
figure will be reached from last-
minute registrants.
ACC's all-time high was in 1948.
when 1,689 pupils pushed into the
campus.
Officials expect the 1064 fresh-
man class te be the second larg-
est in history. Largest was in 1946,
when 734 "fish" went to ACC.
The freshman class now has 050
members.
H-SU Still Registering
Hardin-Simmons University had'
issued 1,183 booklets by 10 a. m.
Thursday. The school has no ex-
act count yet on registration, but
students must have a booklet be-
fore they can enroll.
The college still bad an after-
noon of registration to go.
Total registration for the Cow-
boys in 1953 was 1.450 students.
This included those enrolled in
evening and Saturday classes,
which have not registered yet this
fall.
A. B Lee, registrar, estimated
that this year's student body will
number about the same as in 1953.
McMurry College had 555 stu-
dents Thursday morning, and ex-
pected between 40 to 50 graduate
students to register Saturday
morning.
Jerome Vannoy, registrar, said
that late arrivals were still com-
ing to McMurry.
In 1953, McMurry had a total of
583 students, including 52 students
in the graduate school-
No count la available yet on
the freshman class, but Vannoy
expected it to be larger than last
She took three shots Wedsesday
night with a .22 automatic pistol
at a young male prowler. He got
away. Mrs. Hutchins says she nar-
rowly missed him, as be departed
on all fours.
“I'm not afraid of guns—or prow-
lers," Mrs. Hutchins told The
Reporter-News. "Prowlers had
better stay away from me."
Mrs Hutchins' husband, Bob
Hutchins, 21, works at night. He is
employed by Morgan Express.
She herself is a telephone opera-
tor, and got home from work about
11:25 p.m. Wednesday. She and
her 15-month-old son were alone
at the residence, when the prow-
ler appeared.
“I was in the bathroom setting
my hair the first time I heard
him.” Mrs. Hutchins said. “I could
tell someone was at my back bed-
room window. That was about
midnight.”
She went to the back bedroom
window, but the intruder ducked
out of sight. She didn't get a look
at him that time.
But she carried her pistol with
her to the front bedroom. There
she got the baby to sleep.
About 12:20 a.m. she heard the
prowler again.
Returning to the back bedroom
window, she saw the man clearly
outside, in the bright moonlight.
She walked within four feet af
him.
The man had a piece of clothes
line wire and was trying to un-
latch a window screen.
“I told him I was going to kill
him.” Mrs. Hutchins said. "He
ducked down and went crawling
away."
WHAT'S NEWS
ON INSIDE PAGES
AMERICA LOSING — U. S.
Representative Bob Pooge sow
we re losing the propaganda
war. Page 2-A.
QUEEN CLIMAX — Crowning
of a queen tonight will climax
the celebration of Mexican In-
dependence Day. Page 13-A.
BETTER LOOKS — The bond
issues can help better the looks
of the Taylor County Court-
house. Page 16-A.
OXYGEN FOR BULL—A prize
bull gets the oxygen tent. Page
14-B.
Footprints Found
She said footprints showed the
prowler had walked back and
forth between her back bedroan
window and the front bedroom
window.
Hrs. Hutchins was able to give
a description of the prowler. He
was a white man, in his early
20's. He was about five feet eight
inches tall, and his weight was
about 145. He had brown hair and
even facial features.
Police checked the area in
search of the prowler, but didn't
find him.
The Hutchins incident was the
second prowling report police got
Wednesday night. At 11:42 p.m.,
Don Lassiter, 1143 Orange St., re-
ported a man prowling in his
chicken pen. The intruder was
gone on arrival of officers.
WISH FULFILLED
Mental Patient Dies
In Storm of Bullets
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (—Shout-
ing “come and get me. I want to
die,” a crazed carpenter pushed
a woman hostage at gun point onto
her front porch then stepped
through the door to his death in
a hall of bullets from an off-duty
policeman's gun. . .
J. H. Long, 42, an escapee from
the Arkansas State Mental Hos-
pital yesterday held Mrs. A. D.
Lynn captive in her home while
he deliberated his next move and
repeatedly shouted to police:
Ballot Infighting
Already Underway
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The presiding officers of the Re-
publican 83rd Congress pressed the
starter button for the GOP’s na-
year’s 230. I---------
McMurry opened its fall classes tional campaign last night strik-
Monday. H-SU was slated to be-
gin work Friday at B a m
ACC Session Opens
ACC launched its 49th session
Thursday morning when Ruel
Lemmons of Cleburne addressed
the students in Sewell Auditorium.
Lemmons is a 1«S ACC gradu-
ate and Is the minister of the Cle-
burne Central Church of Christ.
He told the students that learn-
ing to think individually and cre-
in, a theme aimed at making
President Eisenhower a major is-
sue in the November balloting.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
publican Congress would be like
asking Ben Hogan to break par
with one hand”
Senate races in Ohio and New
Jersey are viewed as very close.
Stevenson pictured Eisenhower
as delivering “little sermonettes”
while Republican "hatchet men . ..
conduct the smear attacks on the
flanks"
The former Illinois governor said
the election Monday of Maine’s
first Democratic governor in 20
years confirms that “our people
and House Speaker Joseph W.
Martin Jr. hit identical notes as
they begr. separate crosscountry
campaign tours: Eisenhower needs
a Republican Congress to com-----, . .. . ,
plete the legislative job he under- are tired of this unending diet of
See COLLEGES, PE. 8-A. Col. 1
Heavyweight Fight
Postponed Again
took last year.
Democrat Adlai Stevenson, Eis-
enhower's 1952 opponent, spoke at
a party dinner in Cincinnati and
urged with equal firmness that the
Democrats be given control of the
equal portions of niceness, non
sense and nastiness "
Nixon also alluded to the Maine
NEW YORK UR —The Rocky
Marciano-Erzard Charles heavy-
weight title fight today was post-
poned until tomorrow night be-
cause of rain. . .
Originally scheduled for last
night, the return beta was poet
poned yesterday because of rain.
"M another postponement E**
the beta would be re-
sheied for Saturday sight.
next Congress
Nixon, who has said the Repub.
licans must "run scared,” told
the GOP state convention at Co-
lumbus. Ohio:
"If you were for Eisenhower in
1952. T, you have no choice but
to vote for Republican candidates
for the HoMO and Senate la 1954.”
r.m Martin, addressing a GOP din-
nec. ner at New Brunswick, N.J., said
"to expect the President to com-
plete Ma program without a Re-
voting. He said, "one of our ma-
jor dangers is disunity in the Re-
publican organization. The Maine
organization was fighting amongst
themselves.”
Intra-GOP difficulties drew no-
tice from Stevenson also:
“As’ someone has said, the Re-
publican party is not a party, it’s
a brawl, and that is an awkward
instrument of government. The ug-
liest of our exhibitionism and the
bitterest criticism of public policy
in the last two years has cons
na from Democrats but from Re-
“You’ll have to come get me. I
want to die. I don’t want to go
back to that lie-place.”
Mrs. Lynn said, “I felt sorry for
him and tried to talk him into
giving up his gun. I told him that
was better than death, buthe
wouldn’t listen.”
Long was on his way from his
ward to the barber shop when he
bolted the line and escaped. During
his shortlived freedom he terror-
ized persons in West Little Rock
by brandishing a .22 caliber rifle.
Entering the home of Mrs. Effie
Callihan, he said:
“I won’t hurt you, I just can’t
go back to that lie-place."
He left after Mrs. Callihan gave
him a bottle of water.
Long found Mrs. Lynn in her
backyard and ordered her into the
house. He asked if she knew any-
one who owned a car. “I need a
car to get away,” be said.
Mrs. Lynn said she began-dialing
the telephone but Long suddenly
jerked the receiver from her hand.
"I've changed my mind," he told
her.
A neighbor. A. Lewis, had heard
the commotion in the yard and
called police
A dozen officers surrounded the
house and called to the man to
surrender. When Long refused a
policeman asked If he would free
Mrs. Lynn.
Long then began marching Mrs.
Lynn through the house and onto
the front porch. Mrs. Lynn walked,
calmly - ‘‘as if she were on her
way shopping,” one officer said —
although Long was behind her with
a gun at her back.
Mrs Lynn said as she walked
into the yard, "not daring to
think," she sensed a swift move-
ment behind her and fell to the
ground. She fell only a few feet
in front of Long as Gone Smith,
an off-duty policeman, opened fire.
Ung Ml under a fusilade of
six shots—only one missed the
target.
As he rolled to the ground, be
| groaned:
“Thanks fellows That’s good
enough, it’s just what I wanted.”
I A moment later he was dead.
But his whole manner upon sur-
rendering was friendly and be re-
peatedly denied making any
threat.
Mother Worried
“I never threatened anybody.
My mother was worried that I
would be killed and begged me
to surrender.
“I just decided that was the
thing to do. I’m going to fight this
case and try to get out.”
Bouchillon, face sunburned, hair
cropped in prison fashion, said he
had hitchhiked to California and
back since he was released from
prison Sept. 4.
He was sentenced here to life
imprisonment last year but on the
way to the penitentiary was taken
to Waxahachie where he was
charged with burglary.
Pleaded Guilty
Officers wanted to clear up that
case and Bouchillon pleaded guilty,
drawing a two-year sentence.
Last May the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals affirmed the
habitual criminal conviction here,
meaning he would have to stay in
prison.
But somehow the high court's
decision never was properly re-
corded at Huntsville.
Meanwhile, Bouchillon had been
serving the two-year Waxahachie
sentence and by this month had
earned enough credit on good be-
havior to merit his release.
Sensed Freedom
He said be sensed freedom in
the offing when word came to
Ramsey Prison Farm, where he
was confined, for his delivery to
the central prison at Huntsville.
"I figured there was a chance
something had happened and that
they might let me go," he said.
“But a man don’t feel like he could
be that lucky."
Sept. 1 he was taken to Hunts-
ville and processing began for his
release. Bouchillon sweated it out
He was asked about his draft
status and other routine questions'.
Then, on Sept. 4. he was handed
a khaki shirt and pants, and $50
cash given all departing prisoners
and the barred doors opened to
the outside world.
Bought a Hat
Bouchillon said he was afraid to
catch a bus or train and after |
buying a hat in Huntsville to cover
his prison type haircut began hitch-
hiking.
"A Spanish man picked me up
and took me to Dallas," he said.
He rode- a bus from Dallas to
Fort Worth, stayed here with rel-
atives Saturday night and Sunday
was driven to Weatherford by per-
sons be declined to identify.
While here, he picked up a suit-
case and a few clothes.
He stayed at hotels in Odessa,
El Paso and Phoenix, Arix. on suc-
cessive nights before arriving in
Los Angeles, hitchhiking all the
BRUNETTE MARILYN? — Gina
Lollobrigida, Italy's brunette ver-
sion of Marilyn Monroe, enhances
the top of a desk at New York’s
Idlewild Airport after arrival
from Italy for a 10-day visit and
the American premier of
her new notion picture in New
York next week. Questioned about
Marilyn Monroe, Gina's reply
was, “Marilyn to Marilyn and I
am Gina." About the new Dior
look: “Horrible.”
way.
Couldn’t Help Him
"I have an uncle out there and
hoped to get a job and save enough
money to help me beat my case,”
he said.
"But he couldn’t help me.”
Bouchillon started hitchhiking
back to Texas last Monday. In
Phoenix, he met two friends who
told him:
"Man, you’re hot.”
He arrived in Houston at 4 p.m.
Wednesday At one time passing
within 40 miles if Huntsville.
He caught a bus at Houston,
headed for Dallas. At a stop in
Waco, he telephoned his sister
here
She told me she and mother
were scared,” Bouchillon said.
“She said they were afraid I
would get shot if I didn't give up.
I told her then I would surrender.”
Fires Nearing
Dallas Homes
DALLAS an — Four grass fires
believed set by a pyromaniac,
threatened several big residential
areas on the eastern edge of
Dallas this afternoon and the
sheriff’s office declared “a state
of emergency."
Fires burned in a ten-square
mile area.
Sheriff Bill Decker said a 27-
year-old man with a record as an
arsonist is a suspect
The fires raged from an area
near the Buckner Orphans Home
on the eastern edge of Dallas to
the city limits of Mesquite and
south over county roads.
Sheriff's deputies said a woman
at a farm home near Mesquite
had been overcome by smoke and
was taken to a Mesquite doctor
for treatment.
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Adenauer Regime
BONN, Germany (AP)—Secretary of State Dulles de-
clared here today “an alternative must be found" to bring
West Germany as an equal partner into the Western alli-
ance.
Arriving by plane for emergency consultations in
Germany and Britain, the American diplomatic chief was
greeted by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer ar-
ranged for almost immediate private discussions with him
in search of a substitute for the dead European Defense
Community treaty.
The talks .with Dulles will be decisive for Germany s
fate, the 78-year-old Chancellor had told deputies before de-
parting for the.airport from a parliamentary debate. In
the debate. Socialists were attacking his government for
what they called its “system of secret decisions.”
Dulles made it clear in a statement at the airport that
he was interested perhaps more in what Adenauer has to
say than in any idea he may be bringing with him.
Dulles commented, for example, that Adenauer s gov-
ernment “has consistently followed such enlightened poli-
cies that its views must now *
command great respect.
Dulles said in a broadcast report
to the nation last night that he
believed the new Southeast Asia
defense pact would make a “sub-
stantial contribution” to the pre-
servation of free governments and
to the blocking of further Commu-
nist expansion.
Furthermore, he pictured
“powerful naval and air forces" of
the United States in the western
Pacific as backing up the treaty
signed nt Manila last week with
threat of retaliation against any
aggressor.
He said this threat can protect
many nations as effectively as it
can protect one.
Broadcast After Leaving
His radio-TV talk, filmed to ad-
vance, was broadcast almost three
hours after he had left by plane
for Europe on a quick mission to
find out at first hand what meas-
Kent Records
Ordered Bad
To Clairemont
ures European leaden have in
mind now that the French national
Assembly has shelved the Euro-
pean Defense Community treaty
under which West Germany would
have been rearmed
It was understood that in talks
at Bonn with West German Chan-
cellor Konrad Adenauer and at
London with Prime Minister
Churchill and Foreign Secretary
Eden. Dulles would urge that any
new formula should seek to pre-
serve the principle of close French-
German cooperation which was en-
visaged in the EDC plan.
There was some indication here
that because of his interest in this
principle Dulles was not very en-
thusiastic about a reported propo-
sal by Eden to associate Germany
and Italy with a defensive pact
drawn up at Brussels in 1948 by
England, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg.
No International Army
This pact does Mt provide for
any supra-national authority such
M EDC would have created and
under which France, Germany and
the other EDC countries would
have merged their European for-
ces into a single international
army.
The French vote against EDC
was token two weeks ago whan
Dulles was deeply involved te ar-
rangements for the Manila con-
foreace.
Eden, French Chief
Agree on New Plan
PARIS i-British Foreign Sec-
retary Eden aad French Premier
Mendes-France announced tonight
they had agreed on the necessity
for “close cooperation between
Franco and West Germany" but
did not say they had agreed on
the means for achieving it.
la a communique issued after
two days sf conferences, the For-
eign Secretary and the Premier
said they had fully agreed on the
basic principle of a united Europe,
including the full participation of
Great Britain.
They also said they are to favor
of developing and reinforcing the
Atlantic community The communi-
que did not give any details of how
these objectives are to be ac-
complished
The diplomats agreed, the com-
munique said, that it would be
woeful to call a conference soon
to discuss political potato to com-
“no contradiction and nothing ir-
reconcilable" hi their viewpoints.
He announced there would be a
meeting af countries in the pro-
jected Western alliance in London
probably on Sept n.
Mendes-France talked to a large
crowd of reporters in the lobby
of the French Foreign Ministry af-
ter Eden had driven off to a pelt-
ing rain.
mon among the Western nations.
Eden and Mendes -France came
out of a 2% hour conference at
the French Foreign Ministry, wens wes-oy,-*-*,-*=,
Mendes-France said there was Netherlands and Luxembourg.
By GEORGIA NELSON
Reporter-News Staff Writer
SWEETWATER, Tex., Sept. 16
un—Dist. Judge A. S. Mauzey today
ordered the records of Kent County
in West Texas returned to Clair-
mont until the commissioners court
of the county can designate a court-
house in Jayton.
The records had been taken to
Jayton. Chasen the new county
seat, instead af Clairemont.
Judge Mauzey allowed M days
for the commissioners to designate
a new courthouse and said the
county records would stay to
Clairemont during that time.
Who Took Them?
Asked who was going to be la
charge of returning the records.
Hausey said whoever took them
away. So far, no one has admitted
carrying them away from Claire-
mont.
Some of the commissioners had
been meeting in Jayton and some
in Clairemont. Twenty-four plain-
tiffs. including commissioners, the
county judge and other officials
bad filed out to compel three
county commissioner sto meet in
Jayton with the county judge.
The defendants had filed a
counter-suit asking that the rec-
ords be refined. The judge upheld
them.
The hearings today consisted of
arguments between the attorneys
for each side and no witnesses
were called.
Jackson Hits
Foreign Plans
MORRISTOWN, N.J. tit-Sen.
Henry M Jackson ID-Wash) says
the Republican ad min istration
“talks tough and carries a golf
putter" and has tailed to come
up with any ideas to “stop the
onward march of communism.”
Speaking last night at a rally
for Rep. Charles R. Howell, tho
Democratic candidate for U.S.
senator from New Jersey, Jackson
said Communist aggression to
Greece and Turkey was halted by
previous Democratic administra-
tions
Since that time. Jackson de-
clared, the Republicans haven't
done anything towards stopping
Jackson told the rally that un-
like President Theodore Roosevelt
"who said "talk softly and carry
a big stick’ ... this administra.
tion talks tough and carries a golf
putter.”
I wish this administration would
follow the sound policy of a great
president, a Republican president,
if you please, Teddy Roosevelt,”
Jackson remarked.
Jackson said the Republican
program "reminds me of an ice-
berg It is cold. It is slow moving.
We are told that it to big and
dynamic, but so little of it shows.
The French Premier explained
that the two points of view bad
been fully set forth and a begin-
ning made on bringing them to-
gether. Diplomatic exchanges in
the next few days, he added, would
bring the view points even closer
together. T
Earlier in the day, Eden in-
formed the M nations of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization coun-
eil about his plan.
in his search for a substitute .
for EDC, Eden hM won support Shivers of Texas to going to play
for his new plan from the leaders himself in a movie about a Texas
of the other five members of the oil boom town.
ill-fated European Army plan— ---.
Wort Germany, Italy. Belgium, the Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire
Shivers to Ploy
Himself in Movie
AUSTIN. Tex. un—Gov. All-n
oil boom town
Others in the film are Jane
Trevor, and Thelma Ritter.
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