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Show THE SALT, LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10,, 1923. Ogden; she was at the home of her father A the two Browning men Wrre removed from the Baiiaalyne hoaoe and began their Journey to tho police the department, M. A. Browning took bulautomatic ptatol from which tho let which had wounded Ballantyne had been fired, from his Docket. and gave It to Detective Sergeant Larsen. "I'm the man who did the shooting; here's the gun, he said. I also had a gun," his couain added. producing his pistol. "Ho beat me to It," he concluded. Ballantyne was taken to Holy Cross Next Congrets Certain broad rule which bad baea sustained potentially proposed period of rwraper-stl- hospital; where City Physician John by the courts, be said, were statutes J. Galllgaa performed an emergency and hsbllltatlon. rates and charges to be exsub. fixing his and throat laming operation, Reaist Mellon the Proposal, say. Brownings acted by business Impressed with a Bailantyne, hla windpipe dtuting ahesteel pipenotforbleed the relating to conInterest, to this move; Mr. Ballantyne this public death. to that might 1 tracts for th performance of public Detective Sergeants Wire, Larsen Belief ineietod upon 1L Matters progressed Capital. those the characCents to He work, prescribing him later, Increase Forty o far that she left the Boats la their and ter, method and tun for payment of aaid he had mot had a gun in hn Is the tho and and it said, wages entered, hand when he was shot, that he had fixing hours of labor. Hour Announced, Ef company, which' was not made threats that he would shoot CMeee Tillies, 9eittk Tribes. Wire- automobile, Browning Sutherland declared th law furJustice waa standing WASHINGTON, the Brownings; that April . Any driven by M. A, Browning. rates a under attack, waa not one 'dealing in the middle of ths room when he ther reduction in surtax fective April 16 with business any Then, they claim, Ballantyne charged with a urged by Secretary of th Treasury was shot. Halloo la not likely- In the next ses- pubilo interest or with public work, a change of heart. He came sion of congress, aooording to the or to meet and tide ever a tempoout to the ear, they say, accused the Questioned at Hospital. opinion of both those favoring and rary emergency." Brownings of attempting to break up Later, In the presence of County At those psolng it. upon his wife "It baa nothing to do," he (aid. of Thousands K. Moreton. Assistant In View of th Inability of the adOper Arthur torney. with the character methods or peMany I Mrs. ministration force to fnro a reduc- riods of wage payments 'It does not Ballantyne left the ear. It is- County Attorney Ray 8. McCarthy and there was some conver- and Detective Sergeant Roy L. Lar-se- e, tion tn the maximum surtax rat be- proscribe hours of labor or condition ators FmVirararl in Mich claimed, Dr. Gailigan queried him again. low (4 per cent ia the last see. ton under whlcb labor Is to be done. It bout not making a acene on Mtlon ths sidewalk. Mrs. Ballantyne then. This conversation, reported In short it Is conceded that there I little la not for the protection of persona It la said, preceded Bellantyae up hand by Herman Bauer, secretary to likelihood of being able to do so in under legal disability or for the prePosted. the Schedule th next session, when the radicals vention of fraud. It is simply and exthe chief of police, follow: walk and into the house. "Have you much will be in n much more powerful po- clusively a Dr GaUlgan: g Still, according to the Brownings law, confined sition than heretofore. to adult women (for we are not now the bouse, pain?" story, Ballantyne, entering Dtekinaon. Republi- considering the provision relating to No s newer. Representative door. close the to John attempted An in PITTSBURG, Pa, April "Will you make eome statements can, Iowa, Rader of th farm bloc in minors), who ar legally aa capsbis the Browning pushed through Into the fight of .contracting for themselves as crease of U per cent, bringing the hall; he was followed by M. A. hers? They want to find out Mm the housea which organised in surtax rates men."thing. You are in pretty bad shape, against 4b reduction wages of common labor to 10 cents Browning of th 1111 consideration during Your house is if condition and Don't enter you you serious, my you not-- said today that ha has Law Is Criticised. a hour,, effective April 16. was an- do Ill shoot you!" they claim Bailan.-tyn- e might not get better. They want to revenue will know who fired at you. Will you not changed his position and nounced at the office of the Carsaid Ths majority opinion criticised the continue to oppose any cut In the a leads after-Into arch an hall From that evidence?" this the here give company Steel negie Mr. law on the ground that the price fixed maximum 64 cent. present of per On little "Yea tho nod affirmative east left. (An the at noon. All unskilled laborers in the wall isstudy Dtekinaon waa confident aaid he that by the board (set tip to administer a couch; at th farther,, and "Do you reallx .yotf are in a any proposal for a reduction in It provisions) need have no relation mills of the company throughout the of it a bookcase. bad condition, that you .might pot get that the overwhelmwill rates be to the capacity or earning power of highest Ballan- welly ptttsbuf district are affected by the The Brownings allege that seeeion. tho employee, th ingly defeated in the next number of hour Yea", (an affirmative sod). into this room and Ha Asvor- - a reduction which may happen to- - constitute- a order. The advance was said to be tyne rushed said would bo The chances are not 80 good for in tha normal tax in order to bring a Browning automatlo pistol of th place due to the scarcity of this class of grabbed the character work, day's which waa on the bookcase. Be lifted you, and we want you to realise hew rnftef ' to the smaller " if where the work is to be done, or the taxpayer work era it; simultaneously the Browsings sick you era Don't talk. Hlmpiy nod (be condition of the treasury make or circumstances surrounding of the your hand for yea or no. If you such action possible. With the announcement later that pulled their guns. thought you were going to die woufcl On factor which nyake it improb- employment." noticed of a similar wags advance Woman based the opinion "It you make a statement? able that the .proposal of Secretary added, "o the wholly," of Disappears. -- were tha memopinion being posted, in-- the Pittsburg Mellon to reduce surtax maximum As John lifted the bers of board the and gun, their advisers Ballantyne Answers With Nods. mills of the American Steal A Wire Browning rates to 35 per cent will get .for in him. an at of opintheir snapped average perhaps company, steel men predicted that all ion from thin the next session is that RepresenDoft't you do it! Ive got you cov(All ' answers if they do not precisely agree Tea Green, Republican, Iowa, who aa to what will common labor In an plants of the ered!' to be propoint were by affirmative or negative tative necessary will be the new chairman of the trays vide a living for a woman, keep her Mda) United Staten Steel corporation would noTo thla, they aay, BaHtsntyn made and mean committee, was the Re- In hand did "Mr. health and have a moralA" ths her gun Instead, you Ballantyne, preserve gua reply. publican conferee who favored the 60 be advanced. cams down. And M. A. Browning, In your band when you were abotr Justice Sutherland said he was not per cent rat. This is on of the willing Officer! of the leading Independent behind and a little to the right of his "No " concede, that the wa get S few point on which Representative woman to 'HTTELL received had any direct bear"Where waa the gun?" Green it eel companies when told of the cousin, fired. young men always has with disagreed treasury enThs bullet He hand. his her waved moral. Ballantyne dropped. ing upon polioiea. Carnegie Steel eompanys action said tered 1 "On neck and to left the the is side table?" sufficient the "What of the supply clothes Representative Dickinson said that they had tho question of higher wages well on care, the right armpit. "No." he believed that Secretary Mellon Is necessary cost of living for a women for laborers under consideration and came out under "On the bookcase worker and maintain her In good a wou'd announce their decision sooon. They placed a pillow under his head, mistake to his making emphasise and protect her morals, ht as good style. Again a wave of the hand. Attorney Seeder know Prom Wheeling came the report they say; and then advocacy of lower surtax rates at health "is "Who shot you?" the police . obviously not a precise or this time. He that officers ot the Wheeling Bteel called the hope added, Just where Mrs. Ballantyne was He made an attempt to apeak, but that President expressed sum even not approximatewill unvarying not corporation had decided to meet the during Harding this fracas is not known; she couldnt. new wages of ths Carnegie company champion the Mellon program In th ly so." "Do you know who shot you?" 1934 campaign. About li.OOO men are employed in disappeared from the home simulPointing out that the minimum ofof "1 the with arrival the know for dont sure." taneously end around Wheeling, wag board had fixed different minimum in different lines of employThe number of men affected by the ficers. She waa found last night at "Waa It Jack or Mariner? Do you his recreation la Florida or western ment, the justice declared that such know?" advance in the Cafhegle Steel com Canada. No answer. action demonstrated the fatal uncerpany, it was stated, was approximateMr. Ballantyne, according to bank "Was it one of them?" ly 40,000. Only laborers in manufac nessee Oonl. Iron A Railroad com tainty of the act, aa infirmity which. new will the has "Yea." rate, officials, been of troubled with here late In our opinion, plainly exists." get tnat wages turing; plants pany today common labor In all plants of ths "Did you havo a run in your hand asthma for a number ot month. C Held Defective. company wduld bo increased 11 per at any time, Mr. BaUantyuer Gary's Statement. "No. NEW TORK, April 9 (By the As- cent. HOME LIFE SAID TO tn was The law he aaid. comdefective, Coal of ore and miners the ten "Did you them you were going rt sociated Press.) A statement by that it took Into account tha necessH. Gary, chairman of the Unit- pany, together with other miners of to shoot thernr HAVE BEEN PEACEFUL ities, of only one party to the con "No." ed States Steel corporation, recom- the district to the number of 5 30,000 1! of received a tract, boost ignoring the necessities nf th Did wage so threat per 11 them you in any per cent wage Increase cent March IS. mending an Domestic relations between the employer, who is prohibited by tire act way?" for day laborers In ths corporation s experience from their making Eng-llkh brick beautiful, adjusting compensation to the "No was made pub. man v actu ring plants "Were you drinking this afternoon. streetbungalow on Hast First South differing merit of hia employees. lic today by hla aecretary. Mr. Gary Will RaLse Tay. clothes. Juswere The feature to of statute." this Mr amicable, good according is on his way home from the MediBallantyne?" BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April "It 1st Tea' neighbor of th family. MF and Mrs. tice Sutherland asserted, which, perterranean. officially announced that the common Ballantyne were seen to leave In their haps more than any other, put upon "Were you drunk?" The statement read-I- t labor wige scale In manufacturing demachine many times and if there era it tho stamp of invalidity, la that it has been rboommended to the partments of the Tennessee company "No." "Were you drinking thla morning?" any domestic quarrel that fact was exact from the employer an arbitrary presidents of the manufacturing sub- will be advanced effective April This us best 14, be had. kept from the neighbors. of payment for a purpose. nT upon a the United States sidiary companies 38 cents to 31 cents, an approxino casual connection two About basis memSteel corporation that the wage rates from women years ago having bers of tha nelghbbrhood called, one with his business, or the contract or of day laborers at their plants bo in- mate increase of It per cent, and that Search Made. enough please exacting. you creased about U per cent and that wages In the transportation departby one. to pay their respects to their the work th employee engages te the Birmingham FbHowIng the' Miootlng, aa Including new neighbor. These calls were rarely do other wage rates in the manufactur- ment, to i Southern like will be search of the Ballantyne home returned, It was learned last night. railroad, equitably The ethical of every korker, ing plants be equitably adjusted, to was made by detectives adjusted. become effective April II, 1923. to find. If One neighbor said that iMks Ballan- man or woman,right to a living wage, This waa the formal statement li- poaelbte. the numerous revolvers Thera are approximately 164,000 be conceded. One of the declared and had not tn beea tyne her home may and era ploy sea on the payrolls of ths man- med tonight by George Gordon Craw other arm, the presence of which another said that she viaited for a and Important purposes of trade orford, president of the Tennessee Coal, oausad the Brownings to arm themufacturing companies. moment when th house wsa. In danganisations to to secure it. And Today's raise does not Include em- Iron and Railroad company, subsidiary selves before leaving Ogden according ger of burning down. The store where young1 men like to buy their clothes. with that principle and with every ployees engaged on mining or trans of the United b rates Steel corpora- to their story. Mr. Ballantyne was a apertamah legitimate effort to realise it in fact, Police found two rifle and a ghet. and a confirmed follower of Izaak no one can quarrel; but the fallacy portation properties, where wage ad. tion. Justmenta already have been made or Approximately 044 or 004 men will gun, a loaded from a 4 caliber Walton, according to a neighbor, whs of the proposed method of attaining are pending be effected, Mr. Crawford said. The automatlo pistoldipand a . high --power said that th shooting carno a a dis- it la that it assume that every emAbout 68,764 men are employed fn common labor rate, the tonnage rate, 33 caliber Browning pistol. This last tinct chock to him. ployer Is bound at all event to furthe mi nee and 11A16 on railroad op- the piece work rate and the day rate waa in the room where th Dtaftb Greatest OothltigSSon At tho time of the tragedy, the nish It. Th moral requirement Imerated by the corporation w ill be affected. occurred; it was said by the shooting Brown-tog- s tn general waa not aware plicit In every contract of employment, nelghborbooi Salaries snd wages of git employees to have been the gun with which of hat waa taking place and learned vis., that the amount to be paid and 52. JPorUon last ysar totalled Illinois Takes Action. Ballantyne menaced them. nothing until police made inquiries by the service to be rendered shall bear 6333,678,130, The rifle and the shotgun CHICAGO, April telephone and detectives began to ar- to each other some relation of just (By the Asso- counted for by neighbors io that on the scene. ciated rive Increased equivalence, Is completely ignored." Press) wages for Carnegie Concern Acts. was So far aa could be learned last night employees of the Illinoie Steel com- ing afo; that a lover of outdoor sportYOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April hunting and fishing ap- th Ballantyne kept almost entirely Can Fix Maximum. pany, with aa 11 per cent advance for to wags increase of approximately 11 per dey labor, wws announced at the com pealed to him. tho children found out that some states had cent for all emptoyeee There are three children in the Bal- themselves, inthough waa announced panyt offices today. It was said here Pointing SALT LAKE CITY the neighborhood from minimum wage playmates law while many more today at the local offices of the Car- -' that the increase Is effective in all lantyne family; it was a pltlfiM com- amongst the members of their classes did Justice Sutherland insisted not. regie Steel company, a subsidiary of the plants of the United State Steel mentary on the shooting that the Wasatch at the school. the United States Steel corporation. corporation. head reded, aa he fen to the that "the power to fix minimum wages Whether the Increase, which is efcarried with It, if lawful, the power floor, Jug a few inches from a rag fective April 1C, will be carried out to fix maximum wages. OI.EVEI.ANn. Of- doll left there by one of the klddlea ATTORNEY REEDER Ohio, April t In the United States Steel plants ficials of the. American Steel A And few a To sustain the individual freedom feet Wire away was another eould not be learned here. Under the company late TELLS OF home of action ronlomplaied bv the conef symbol SHOOTING life a announced a today wage tiny rocking new scale common laborers will te Increase of It GMIP, stitution." the majority opinion conper cent- to 4000 compaid 44 cents an hour, aa against ii mon laborer! effective April H Wages of the Browning hoys Parents "is not to strike down the cluded. OGDnX, April 9 Details of the at present and other classes of of other employees will be came to Balt Lake following but to exalt it; for the shooting of Benjamin F. Ballantyne commonthegood, wilt receive pro rata in- adjusted, the announcement equitably and were said. shooting present in a con- at his home In Balt lake at 3 o' deck surely be food ot society as a whole creases. charged that In ference served than by tha "instatement in which he cannot the better office of of Chief were this afternoon Police It la believed that independent steel given here tonight tvery oaa of ImporSHARON, Pa., April 9 Heads of Joseph E. Burbtdge in which to the members of the family of preservation against arbitrary re- tancepractically the relation John sampan tea of this district will follow three steel mills here, employment their parents. Attorney M. Browning, the parents of Mrs. Bal- straint ot the liberties of it consti- end theInvolving the action of the Oarnegle company the United Statea Steelsubsidiaries ot Brownings, protection of humanity." th members." corporation, Reeder, friend of tbe Browning tuent famU this belief Is borne out 50,040 were notified late H. William lantyne, had by itself court "oa Judge Reeder, ranged today that a Th argument presented in the dis- supreme ily, th chief. Chief of Detectives Ri- - Jr, attorney of this city, who went to workers will bo affected. Increase of apsiroxlmately 11 per wage th side of property and against hucent eswere M. to directed Beckstead. opinions senting home the County with Ballantyne for common labor will go into serf ect Arthur John today manity.1 beMoreton. Assistant Attorney BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. April 16 and that all other It County Browning, brother of Mrs. Ballantyne, tablish that there was a parallel he continued, "It wages will AttorneyE, R. 8. McCarthy Was announced at offices of ths Ten April and Dis- and his couain. Marriner A. Browning, tween wages and working conditions thet theregrettable," be equitably adjusted. court khould hav taken to court sustain trict Attorney which required the A. Rogers were son of M. fl. Browning of Ogden. woman from the wag earners away fixing the former on the ot Browning boy and myself," legislation tha District of Columbia this soreof polio power which aa inquest ever th body ef he"The arrived at the Ballantyne tame exercise sakl, needed protection. Th supreme BaHangyn will be ordered shortly wa home shortly after noon. At tho home had been held to bo sufficient to ly court ha declared the child labor law over control felt certain last night iu oCfloiai the warrant legislative Mrs. Ballantyne wa mother unconstitutional and thl new decipresent. Ballantyne greeted all three of us, latter. sion taking a proper and needed prohours hav be said It that "If long shook hands with us and admitted logical next on th health tectiontn from women thIs adootrtn Sift Promised, that ha had done wrong In hla treat- a more direct effect the that perfecting low Wage," step employees than cannot James E. Ballantyne. father of the ment to hi wife and family during ofaidth Chief themselves who those help Is very "there Justice Taft, the few week last He had not dead man, declared last night that in been he helped." authority for dome observ- shall th ten year of the married Ufa of hie drinking heavily during that period respectable ers . . . that they are equally and asked one of us Affected. n he had never known there was destroy a small harmful Washington took hi this any bottle of liquer he tohad. regard. Congress John told "pleasantness. The three It waa view and we cannot aay SEATTLE, Wash., April 9 The children, be said, adored their father him he should maka the fight himself this " so warranted In doing minimum wage law of the elate ot and only a week ago Mr. and Airs. and said he should pour the liquor into not and Justice Taft Justice Chief to survtv the Washington is unlikely Ballantyne did and Holmes aaalysed former opinions of effect Ballantyne and the children spent sev- tbe sink.to Thla of a decision of tbe United his brother-in-lasaid tbe court eral hours with the Ballantyne family turning bearing on tha powercon-sf Mtatea supreme court today Invalidathe in Ogden, at which that come the would hoped day time, th father to regulat privat ing a similar act for the District of says, there seemed to be the most when he would shake him by the hand legislature that Columbia. Kenneth Durham, legal ad- tracts, reaching the conclusion holdand say he was proud of him. complete love and family harmony for was to the state department of lathere riser precedent ample Ballantyne agreed that his family "We will employ counsel," Mr. Balbor and lnduitry, aaid tonight From should go to Ogden until he had pulled ing th law constitutional. lantyne said last night, to assure himself 34 of 000 the to 3,004 women In thl state Bamuel Gompera. together and got on hie feet American Federation president the ends of justice are of Labor, issued hr affected, it Is estimated. seemed to hev been that our boy name to kept served, untar- Thi sarrangetnent nished for his saka and tbe sake of satisfactory and Mrs. Bailantrn got his children. We will sift thl tragio hersolf and one child ready and with affair to the bottom and know all her mother went out and got into Johns automobile for the trip to Ogthat ha happened. The father and th brother. William den. Ballantyne then thanked all of for the Interest we had taken in B. Ballantyne. last night took charge the matter. At the door he shook of thq body and announced that funeral service will be held In Ogden hands with me. then seeing his wife the car went to the automobile at a time to be announced later. Snd opening the door commanded hla to wife out and go to the house. Served in Army. ' Mrs get Ballantyne did as commanded PVIend to the matrlawnitirfir way up life IJJWTlw spoke of his record in the army, for house Baliantine kept on path shoving his he served two year! a an enlisted wife. Ills sudden tn of heart ferring of riches. I'nfess you leave man despite the fact of his family re- the matter caused change John and Marriner ' : will, properly executed, sponsibilities. -- They told, too, of bis to turn and follow. "Aa they entered love for the outdoors, ot hi marksmay rushed past ioor Bailantyne manship and enjoyment In fishing. hie wife, who turned and exclaimed develop, breaking asunder, closest family New Models of In th army Ballantyne waa an In- something and went out the front ties. structor tn machine gunnery and pistol door. firing. He was a crack shot. "Then Marriner stepped up th stops The father denied last night that his quickly behind John, who had stepped eon was addicted to drinking. He re- Into th doorwav leading toward the Make your will at once to insure a pudiated emphatically statements that library. Ballantyne then rushed to the young man was Intemperate in any the corner of th library, where he fair division of your estate. Then name wav. up a gpn from the tip of the The fatherless Ballantyne children picked our Trust Department look case the postcard alyour exeentor or are Beverly, aged 9, Robert, aged 7, bum. Thenunderneath Marriner stepped up near and Elsie, aged 3 and its terms will be earried years. They ar John, who had a gun In his hand, and with ther mother In Ogden. told Ben to drop th gun and not do out with a sympathy and tactfulness that An official of th Utah State Nalike that. At that Ballanto-havtional bank last night apok highly anything tyne swung the gun at John's head will bridge misunderstandings. concerning Mr. Ballantyne e service and the next instant Marriner fired a while with the institution. shot. The bullet entering Bailantyne's Mors than three year have just arrived. ago," he neck, Ballantyne fell by th bookcase They are latest in style, Id. Mr. Ballantyne entered the emA competent, dependable with the gun lying near hia hand. I of the bank and ploy waa continued in th Its hall and was not meanwhile la had Inexpensive service. smarted in fit, and highest in quality.1 For service for about eighteen months. an eyewitness to th shooting Bet as explain it in detail. He then retired from that activity and "I then notified the officer and Balentered the Rogers-He- s men and women. Wholesale lantyne was taken to the emergency . company end remained with that or- hospital and the two Brownings went ganisation for a period of eight to tho police station with myself and months, when he retired, retaining his the officers interest in .the company, and again Mrs. Bailsntyne and three children entered the employ of the bank. and Mrs Bailantvne s mother cam to This was about years ago. Ogden from Salt. Lake' during the glnee-th- at time his accounts have always been found true and hi work Tonight Mr. Reeder and the memwith the bank has been absolutely bers of the Browning famiiv held a Salt Lake City. satisfactory." long conference on ths cna It Is held Mr. Ballantyne resigned from th robebl that June H. Devin will bank staff about three weeks ago, os22 Vest 2nd So. chief counsel for th two BrownMill Orders? tensibly to take a vacation. He ha ing men now in custody. Mr. Reeder been in tli health for some time and will probaoiy be a witness q court acwas undecided a he thee he would take tion nfw held Inevitable, 1 CUT LIKELY I IB IS UPSET to oa eoa-sent- ed an at JSgtoert-qmaetipn- od Next suf-fer- jint it Just price-fixin- N The Best Is Always the Least Expensive . ' 1 . DRESSED with They y Kincaid buy their quality as and insist that - KimWll Clothes CFamous forfine Tailoring are the product of many years of 1 the spring has brought to the most great pay. in to Variety Prices Gardner Adams .A Company' - a if report recommending -- thl Good Will Among Heirs To Match That Spring Suit , Stetson Shoes and Oxfords 1- Zions Savings Bank & trust co. - I U to -- f i ciittflfiG I SIHIOH 4t SIlVDQl Jie denying of a franchise for natural gas, because, as they say, VOur investigations have conclusively proved to us that neither natural nor artificial gas can be depended, upon or, in fact, is practicable for Of course, we knew all the tipie that there was nothing so dependable as KING COAL for heating purposes, but it makes it so much more impressive so a competent body of judges confirm our opinion. e N |