Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1927 — Page 1

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ALGER’S DEFENSE PLEA HI! Witnesses Refuse to Say That Officer Fired at Youth First. MOVE MADE TO IMPEACH Adjourns to See if There Is Precedent. By Eldora Field Times Staff Corresoondcnt DANVILLE, Irid., Jan. 27.—Defense attorneys for Gene Alger, Butler University student on trial for the murder of John J. Buchanan, Indianapolis Negro trafficman, moved this morning to impeach one of their own witnesses, when Henry J. Fox, 225 N. Capitol Ave., refused to say that he swore to a statement that Buchanan fired through a door at Alger first. Court was adjoured to see if there was precedtn for such action. Excitement in the courtroom was brought to a high pitch when Asa Smith, defense attorney, and John T. Hume of Danville, a State attorney, became involved in a fist fight. The men had to be separated. Strole said he got off a traction car near the Sta.tehouse* on the morning of the shooting and saw Alger standing on the grass about two feet from a closed automobile, parked at the curb. Strole said he nodded at Alger and went on. He had gone about fifty feet, he said, When he heard voices and turned around and saw somebody grab Alger's arm. “Did you see Alger do anything to the door of that car,” Chief Defense Attorney Otis Gulley asked. “No, sir, I did not,” Strole replied'. The State rested its case late Wednesday afternoon, and immediately Fred I. King, defense attoryiey, began his opening statement Ba shiny new silver badge—a (weuth’s desire to flash it and make an arrest —that’s what caused the tragedy, King told the jury, severely censoring Alvin E. Ford, owner of the auto Alger was accused of attempting to steal. King referred to Ford as "this man with anew badge in his coat and anew certificate of membership in the Horse Thief DeAssociation, who made an illegal arrest.” “Following events ’♦o the tire store,” said King, "We will not depend upon two policemen to tell what happened there. We will prove by fair and unbiased witnesses that when Officer Mosbey telephoned police headquarters for instructions hp did not say 'I have a boy here, found stealing a car,’ hut that he used the expression, ‘fooling around a. cat - .’ We shall also pifove that the l*oy did not exclaim to Officer Hadley, ‘Stick ’em up.’ "We have three witnesses who will impeach the testimony of Beyer (the roomig house proprietor) and who will relate to you how he told them that the first shot came from the outside. We will show by circumstances that Officer Buchanan . not only fired first, bits in all probability, fired two shots at Alger.” Buchanan Warned ‘‘Wo will show that Buchanan had been warned that a man considered j a desperate character, with a gun, was in that closet, and that Buchanan had therefore approached qulotly: that Meyer’s testimony in which he pitty-patted on the rail of this Hotness box simulating approaching footsteps was untrue.” The yellow pine closet door, introduced as a State’s exhibit, last wejsk, Mas again brought into the room at this point and King indicated what he considered the course of the bullets shot through it, when Alger was on the inside and Buchanan outside. “Buchanan, an intelligent officer, with the. information he had, took no chances. He shot through (he door, Intending to terrorize or to kill the supposed bandit.” said King. "The law of self-defense is that a person has a right to defend himself when ho is where he has a right to be,, insofar as his assailant is concerned. Consider this boy’s situation. Subjected to illegal arrest, roughly handled in the tire store, knowing that he Mas about to he subjected to dishonor, disgrace, he escaped. Then, running with bullet wounds in his leg, he was here at this Beyer House, caught like a rat m a trap. He took the only means of escape. He had a right to be there as far as his assailant was concerned.” "He was just a boy exercising his right to escape from the pursuers "’bo Mere manifestly trying to kill liim. We will show that lie did not point his gun at Officer Sheets when ho M - as in the Brizendine car. "Witnesses Mill here tell you M’liy he couldn’t have done so. Later at the hospital he M-as surrounded by burly policemen—men M-ho had sought to. take his life and they were interfiled in securing his supposedly dyWm declaration. Why? -Because they sought to protect Sheets, or whoever fired that almost fatal shot at Gene at New York and Illinois Sts. If the boy had died, the statement would have been a complete defense for the officers involved.

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SIX DIE IN GAS LIGHT EXPLOSION Hall Wrecked at Turner, Idaho, During Basketball Game. Bu United Press TURNER, Idaho, Jan. 27.—Six persons, including four members of one family, were dead and several more were in hospitals today, following a gas explosion in a wooden hall at Turner during a basketball game. Approximately 200 spectators were watching the play betM’een teams representing Turner and Central, Idaho, Mhen the acetylene lights went out. Immediately there followed a terrific explosion which caused walls of the hall to collapse and hurled the root of the structure down upon the crowd. The dead included Brigham McCann, Turner; his brother, Janies, and two sons of the latter. Others killed were Elmer Anderson and Ira Lowe, players on the Central team. Ten of the score injured were believed to have been seriously hurt by falling timbers and flying splinters. They were treated at local hospitals and at emergency M'ards set up in the Turner schoolhouse. Investigation today showed, authorities said, that the explosion ptobably M-as caused by leaking gas being ignited M’hen a man In the crowd struck a match after the lights M-ent out. SPIRITS TO VISIT CITY NEXT WEEK Congress for Mediums Will • Begin Sunday at the Denison. Restless spirits will be walking and talking all over Indianapolis next week. The Psychic Research Temple of the Temple of Occult Science will begin its congress at the Denison Sunday. The welcome address M’ill be made by Dr. A. Wustrow, head of the local temple, 1437 Central Ave. The purpose of the convention is to unite all occult metaphysical organizations in one body. Delegates from all over the United States are registered. The meetings Mill be public. Materializations, or the spirit becoming visible, will be one of the principal drawing cards of the convention, according to WustroM'. Chaplin Raises Bond for Releasing Assets Du f ailed Press NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Charles Chaplin today had' raised $700,000 to satisfy the lien under which the Government has tied up his assets in New York. A personal bond of that amount has been submitted to Frank Mowers, deputy internal revenue collector for the New York district, by Isaac Siegel of Chaplin’s legal staff. Tho bond. M’hen posted, will release the lien against Chaptin, the Chaplin Film Corporation and the Regent Film Corporation, with assets totaling millions. ; ANOTHER TAX LIEN Chaplin’s Property Hit by New Government Claim. Du United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27—Business affairs of Charlie Chaplin today were in a M’orse legal snarl even than his troubles with Lita Grey Chaplin, his 18-year-old ’estranged wife. Still another lien was filed by the internal revenue bureau in Los Angeles Federal Court late yesterday to collect income taxes alleged to be owed by the film comedian. The lien, amounting to $536,860.69, was placed against the United States Distributing Company, the firm M’hich handles Chaplin’s films. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 8 10 a. m 22 7 a. m 10 II a. m 27 S a. m 13 12 (noon) 31 0 a. m 17 1 p. m 32

COBB, SPEAKER CLEARED OF SCANDAL BY LANDIS Baseball Commissioner Absolves Both of Throwing Games and Reinstates Them. /

Bii United Press / CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—The names of Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, engraved forever in baseball’s hall of fame, were cleared today of the mud of scandal by an official exoneration by Commissioner K. M. Landis. Landis issued a statement finding Cobb and Speaker not guilty of the charges of throM’ing games, and thus reinstated them in organized baseball, as well as in the hearts of baseball fans. “These players have not been nor are they now found guilty of fixing a ball game.” Landis stated. "By no decent system of justice could such findings be made. Therefore, they were not placed on the Ineligible list.

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UNION HEAD FLAYS U. S. RATE BODY President Lewis Launches Attack on. Interstate Commerce Board. FAVORITISM IS CHARGED Miners’ Official Refers to Indiana Situation. The Interstate Commerce Commission in its rate fixing has discriminated against union coal fields so as to permit nonunion operators to enjoy loM'er freight rates, President John L. Lewis charged at the United Mine Workers of America convention in Todmlinson Hall today. President Lewis launched his attack upon the commission in introducing a supplementary report to his annual report. “The coal industry oi Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Virginia, is founde dnot only upon the exploitation of serf labor, but also upon special privileges in the form of discriminatory freight rates,” said Lewis. Special Favors “These special favors, granted originally by the railroads in order to boost their coal tonnage at the expense of other shippers, have been confirmed by tho Interstate Commerce Commission without regard to cost of service, length of haul, or any of the other factors which are commonly held to he controlling in such cases. “In fact, tho commission has not only maintained the unjust and discriminatory advantages enjoyed by these southern districts, but by the application of an improper method of rate adjustment, has actually greatly improved theri competitive position.” Markets Invaded Lewis charged that as a result of t.iis "inequitable and unscientific method of adjusting ‘freight rates that lias permitted the operators of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia to invade markets M’hich He hundreds of miles outside their natural shipping zones.” Turmoil broke out at the convention this morning when PoMers Hapgood, Harvard University graduateminer, attempted to take his fight to be seated as a delegate to the convention floor. Police were forced to calm some of the participants. The outbreak occurred when the respiutions committee reported unfavorably on a resolution presented by the Cresson (Pa.) local, denouncing the administration. Hapgood attempted to speak in support of the resolution which charged the administration is persecuting individuals opposed to the administration. It asked that the editor of the United Mine Workers’ Journal ho instructed to allow administration opponents use of the journal’s columns. Hapgood claims to be a delegate from the Cresson local. President John L. LeM’is refused Hapgood the floor when he declared ho M’as a delegate and demanded to know why the credentials committee had not considered his claim. He was escorted to the rear of the hall, where the Pennsylvania delegation sits and police Mere forced to separate his opponents and followers as they milled around him. The convention M’as In an uproar. LeM’is threatened to oust Hapgood from the hall as he made another attempt to speak and declared “anyone who thinks he can viQlate the rules and disturb this convention Is a fool.” The report of the resolution committee M’as accepted and the resolution condemning the administration killed. The miners Wednesday voted not to recognize the Soviet-Russian government. The resolution committee recommended that every member “courageously resist the onslaughts of these eneies and serve notice that the union will not tolerate interference” from the soviet.

"As they desire to rescijjd their withdraM’al from baseball, the releases which the Detroit and Cleveland clubs granted at their request, their resignations are cancelled and tho players’ names are restowed to the reserve lists of those clubs.” Landis’ statement was shorter than others he has Issued in connection with baseball scandals. It was out in his office to a group of waiting newspaper reporters. The statement in full folloMs: "Messrs. Tyrus R. Cobb and Tris Speaker have asked that their baseball status be defined. This request is in contemplation of possible future service and is in accordance (Turn to Page 10)

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 27. 1927

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A decade ago, Mhen he had only twelve children, W. L. Travis, of Catawba County, North Carolina, got a letter from ex-l're.sident Roosevelt congratulating him on the size of his family. He’s wondering what Teddy would say now. Today the children number seventeen. The oldest is 24, the youngest in 3 months, and all are healthy. Mr. and Mrs. Travis and their children are shown above.

THREE FISHERMEN, TRAPPED BY ICE ON LAKE FOR FOUR DAYS, RESCUED

SHIPPING BOARD ABOUT FACES ON LEASEPROPOSAL Favors Keeping, U. S. Line Vessels After Probe Acts. Times I Yashinoton Bureau . 1322 Xew York Avenue WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The United States shipping board has abandoned its plan to lease the Leviathan and other vessels of the United States lines. It announces this in a report to Congress, for establishing action contemplated by that body to prevent the transaction. The board received proposals for leasing the vessels and was ready to accept one of them, it M-as rumored, when Senator Hiram Johnson checked this by launching a senatorial investigation of the whole question of merchant marine. Johnson's committee has clearly indicated its opposition to disposal of the lines on the terms offered and is preparing to recommend a permanent merchant marine policy to Congress. Changes View Faced with this situation, the board has receded from its former position and now reports: “The board Is convinced that the United States line with its peculiar value as an element of national defense and for broadening the scope of national commercial relations should be maintained and developed and that the Government must, under the circumstances, continue its operation for the present.” Regarding the general policy of Government operation of a merchant marine the board says: “This board is convinced that with appropriations necessary for the continued operation of approved essential routes and authority for a replacement and improvement-con-struction program necessary to meet subsidized foreign competition this board can establish an economical and efficient Government-owned and operated merchant marine. Without a definite program of this character Government operation cannot be made satisfactory.” - First Time Admitted This is the first admission by a majority of the shipping board that economical and efficient operation by the Government is possible. The board does not suggest to Congress how many new’ vessels are necessary to replace old ones and increase service, but does urge a definite replacement program in order that foreign competitors may not divert business from us by creating the impression our merchant niarino is only a temporary institution. The shipping board still holds to Its belief that private ownership of the merchant marine is desirable Yhen this can be accomplished, but rays flatly that a privately owned fleet can never be established until lhe Government pays it a subisdy. 30,540 SOLDIER GRAVES / Death Abodes of Americans in France Are Announced Dll United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The number of American soldiers now buried in cemeteries in France totals 30,540, X. A. Price, Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission,told the House Appropriations committee during consideration of the Independent Offices supply bill testimony published now reveals. In other European countries, Price said, 130 Americans killed in the World War arc burled. He said the bodies of 46,214 soldiers had been returned to this country.

Tug Plows Through Floes to Take Off Trio —Fed by Airplanes. Du I nit id Press MCHIGAN CITY, Ind., Jan. 27. Three members of the crew of the fishing tug Imeprial, who have been held prisoners since Saturday by an ice jam in Lake Michigan, were rescued early today when the steelnosed tug Jersey from Chicago crushed through the ice fioes to the marooned craft. While the ship was not salvaged, the three men were removed and taken aboard the Jersey. Although suffering from exposure, the three men—Frank Jenson, Harvey Freyer and Joe Van Kirk —were not in a dangerous condition. The trio had been kept alive by food dropped from airplanes. Planes dropped hampers of bread, cheese and meat to the men Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday a plane dropped several baskets of coal to the men who had signaled they had run out of fuel. The men were trapped Saturday when their boat Mas unable headway against a giant ice floe several miles off shore here. Coast guards from here attempted to reach the men by leaping from ice cake to ice cake. They narrowly escaped drowning when one of the ice cakes overturned. The marooned men, due to the floating cakes, M’ere unable to make their n’ay to the shore. INFiARYREPAIR FUND IS SOUGHT Commissioners to Consider SIO,OOO Request. Marion County commissioners today were to consider a recommendation of Commissioner George Snider that an appropriation of SIO,OOO be raised to “clean up” the county infirmary and make general repairs. Snider made the recommendation after his return from a visit there Wednesday afternoon with Commissioner Charles Sutton. Snider's recommendation follows one recently made by Councilman George Montgomery, that the two upper floors of the four-story wing and the upper one of the three-story building be removed. The county council last week refused to pass a $35,000 ordinance for repairing the structures. It is knoM’n that Commissioner Cassius 1,. Hogle favors razing the old wings. Snider and Hogle disagree on the fact that the State will soon take over care of the dependents, Snider believing this M’ill come in a few years while Hogle said the matter is “too remote” to he seriously considered. Former Kaiser Plans Return to Germany Bu United Press BERLIN, Jail. 27.—While the former Kaiser celebrated his sixtyeighth birthday at Doom today. Nationalists here permitted it to become knoM ii that Wilhelm expected soon to x’eturn to Germany after the formation of the new Marx cabinet, in Mhieh members of Nationalist party Mould have influential roles. Wilhelm, Nationalists intimated today, M-ould await the upshot of the first few M’eeks of right M’ing gov ernment in Germany. Then quietly, perhaps secretly, he M’ould leave Doom, where he found efuge after his flight from Germany in Novembei, 1918, for Ilomburg Tor Der Hoehe, near Frankfort. M’here the Prussian government has granted him life-long use of a magnificent castle.

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DEMOCRATS PUT THREE INTO RAGE FOR WHITE HOUSE Reed, Donahey and Al Smith on Receptive List for 1928 Campaign. Times Wash inn ton Bureau. 1122 .Yfi) York Averne WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—While prospective Republican presidential candidates are Matchfully u-aiting to see what President Coolidge will do, three Democratic booms M’elcome the New Year. Friends of Senator James A. Reed, Missouri Governor Victor Donahey, Ohio, and Governor Al Smith, New York, have informed Democratic politicians of the availability of these gentlemen. The Donahey boom M’as carefully planted and watered In Washington just before Christmas, but it failed to interest congressmen to any considerable extent. There M’ere two reasons for this indifference to the Ohio Democrat Mho has thrice carried that Republican eommomvealth: first, the suspicion that the Governor’s boom M’as in reality a move by Representative Martin L. Davey, an ambitious, likewise M’ealthy, Ohio politician, to ease Donahey out of the Governor’s office in order to make way for himself; and, second, because Democrats think they ought to wait until Congress is adjourned before giving serious attention to the 1928 presidential campaign. The presidential publicity for Senator Reed was occ4ioncd by Representative John J. Cochran of that State Mho, instead of accepting Davey’s invitation to get behind Donahey, urged the Ohioan to get on the Reed band-Magon before it is too late. Cochran asserted with positiveness hat the “next President is coming from Missouri” and he urged Ohio politicians to include themselves among the “original Reed” men. Democratic members of the New York congressional delegation during the present session of Congress have pointed with much pride to Governor Smith's recent overwhelming victory against Ogden L. Mills as further proof that lie is the most “available” candidate the Democrats can find. GREETS WOMAN OF 102 President Coolidge Sends Message on Birthday Bu United Press ONALASKA, Wis.. Jan. 27. During 102 years of life, one can collect a large variety of mementoes, and Mrs. OHana Sjolander, who has just turned that age has quite a number. On her birthday, hoMever,.she received a letter which Mill occupy a rather prominent place among her keepsakes, for it was signed by Calvin Coolidge President of the United States, congratulating her on her age. Mrs. Sjolander lives with her ortly son, C. A. Sjolander here. She has 10 grandchildren, and 21 great grandchildren. Although unable to read or M’rite, she takes keen interest In everything that happens. Mrs. Sjolander is in good health. CRAVE HONORS TARIS, Jan. 27. —The women are planning anew offensive on the French Academy. Society and literary women have begun the discussion in the hope of breaking down the barrier that has prevented their sex for 300 years entering the ranks of the "Immortal forty.” Leaders by M’hich it is aimed to overthrow hail the new liberalism as the M’edge “prejudice” that dates hack to the days of Cardinal Richelieu.”

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Public Service Commission Calls on Merger Company to Fulfill $315,000 Cut Promise PLEDGE TO CHAMBER RECALLED President Perry Told to File New Schedules at Once. The public service commission today demanded that schedules calling for reductions of $315,000 a year on electric light bills be filed with it at once by the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. In a letter to the president, Norman Perry, the commission calls attention to the fact that the order made wdien permission was given to merge the Merchants Heat and Light Company and Indianapolis Light and Heat Company into the power firm provide dtliat there be an actual reduction of $315,000 to light consumers and that this reduction should take effect on bills sent out March 27.

Officials of tho company are notified to consult with H. S. McNeely, chief of the tariff department, in the drafting of schedules to be submitted. Ou’n Schedule Written The commission is also preparing its own schedules under which the reduction of rates M’ill be distributed among Indianapolis consumers. Tho letter to President Perry is a remainder of the argeement and official order made M’hert the Chamber of Commerce Mithdrew its opposition to the merger under the revised plans. When the original application for the merger M’as made by Harley L. Clarke, Chicago, purchaser of the two companies, it provided for the issuance of $35,000,000 in securities with which the tM’o old company M’ere to he purchased. This Was Too Much The Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies entered protest against such a burden of stock being placed upon the light companies. They protested that tho valuation M’as much too high. The Chamber of Commerce M’as tho only body to engage an expert to assist it in its protest and it was upon tho recommendation of this expert, after some testimony had been presented by the engineers for Clarke that the Chamber approved ■in agreement to value the light companies at *40,000.000 and to permit the merger to he made. That agreement called for reductions of per oent on power rates and for the $315,000 total reduction to domestic users. Today's development is one more step in enforcing the reduction agreed upon at that time. BURIED BRIDE BY BITS Confessed Slayer Believes He Can Find Various Graves. Bu United Press MAUSTON, Wis., Jan. 27.—The dense underbrush and forest lands near Plattesville, Wis., M’ill be searched today by authorities seeking the body of Mtp. William Coffey, folloM’ing the confession of her husband that he killed the woman uith a baseball bat and then dismembered tlie body, burying each section separately. Coffey, a bond salesman arid parttime evangelist, said in a second confession he thought he M’ouid he able to find the place where he buried the body. He insisted, however, in keeping with a former confession, that lie had killed his if'ife accidentally M’hile the tM’o M’ere on their honeymoon. GRAND JURY REPORTS Marion County grand jury returned tM’eny seven indictments this morning before Criminal Judge James A. Collins. All were routine jail cases. Two murder charges M’ere included. Judge Collins, in his instructions, made no reference to the jury returning to the probe of graft in Indiana politics. ‘LITERATURE’BILL OPPOSITION SEEN Constitutionality of the “salacious literature” bill Introduced by Senator George W. Simms (Rep.), Vigo County, M’ill be questioned M’hen its public hearing is held. Opponents are preparing for a vigorous fight and Mill, it is claimed, seek to prove that the hill as drawn is class legislation. The State board of education, under the measure, Mould have supervision of the literature and M'ould assume legislative functions M’hich it should not possess, it is contended. Those against the measure assert that under its provisions tM’o types of magazines could print the same 3tory and only one be guilty under the law. Public morals committee of the Senate M’ill hear both sides. Senator John C. Sherwood is head of the committee.

Forecast Increasing cloudiness tonight, probably becoming unsettled Friday; rising temperature; lowest tonight 20 to 25.

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BORAH DEPLORES EMPLOYING FORCE AGAINST CHINESE Senator Sympathizes in Struggle—World Conference Prospect Remote. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. —The only thing which may keep China from protecting foreign lives and property is the dispatclrof fleets and armies there. Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declared in a statement today sympathizing with China "in. her great struggle.” Borah did not mention the policy of tlie Administration toward China, hut said tho action of Great Britain in sending warships to Chinese ports “may have a very disastrous result.” China, he said, is entitled to equal treatits, tariff autonomy and elimination of extra-territorial rights, adding: “J venture to express the belief that she will achieve these ♦things." The policy of the United States should aid China in attaining those things, he said. Prospects of an international Chinese conference, called by the United States under tlie League of Nations auspices, as informally suggested at Geneva, seem very remote to officials here. There are constant joint meetings of representatives of the powers at Pektn, but no intimation has been received here of a movement for another formal nine-power conference?. Though a Chinese conference called either by the league or by the United States is conceivable, informed persons were puzzled by the suggestions that the United States call a league conference. BRITISH TROOPS RACING Twenty Thousand Hurry to Scenes of Chinese Trouble. Bu United Press LONDON, Jan. 27.—With 30,900 British soldiers and marines engaged in a race to tho Far East, the British government today virtually admitted that its military forces M’ere preparing not only for the defense of British concessions in Shanghai, but for the entire city as well, if such action is necessary. A neutral zone, extending five miles beyond the city limits of Shanghai, great trade center of the Orient and haven for thousands of foreign refugees, will lie established by Great Britain, it M-as reported, and Cantonese generals M’ill be informed that ,their armies must halt outside this area. Admitting that such a plan is being considered hypothetically, official circles emphasized that such a step wquld bo taken only as a last resort. Such a clash, which must inevitably result in victory for the numerically superior and better equipped Cantonese, in the opinion of military experts here, might precipitate outbreaks M’hich would make the recent llankoM disturbances pale into insignificance, it was claimed. The fight for Shanghai has developed into a race betM’een the British expeditionary forces, about twenty thousand strong, now at least six M’eeks aM’ay from the city, and the Cantonese armies, marching along a front less than one miles away. China was Marned today by United States to agree on a stable government able to protect American lives and interests. This is a prior condition to negotiation of new equal treaties and abrogation of extra territorial privileges under Mliiclx the United States maintains courts and troops in China, according to a statement by Secretary of State Kellogg today. The statement's contents were fully summarized by an exclusive United Press dispatch yesterday, in advance of presentation to the press. Kellogg quoted from and reaffirmed his previous statements that this Government Mill ‘‘negotiate the release of extra territorial rights as soon as China is prepared to provide protection by law and through her courts to American citizens, their rights and property.”