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Show BALLINGER WILL NOT RESIGN As Long as the President Is Satisfied Ha Will Not Consu l Withes of Cabinet Members. Ilolae, Idaho -Secretary nf the In terlnr It A ll.ill iiB-r nn Suml ly nt ternoon flatly denn-d tun i.-pnrt re cemly sent out froni Waahlngion. and auppoaedly bnand on an iiutliorlinilve source, to Ihe effret that he waa baa lenlng to Ihe national capital lo nt tend a meeting of ihe cabinet S"ptem ber Jij, and on three days ensuing when he would put It up straight In his llrpulillian colleagues to eliln-r ustaln him or turn hi in down, and that he had determined In Ihe event of being aiiatulned by the other mem bera of the cabinet to remain In of floe regardless of any pressure that mlghl be brought to beur lo force his resignation, but lhai If Ihe heads nf the other departments repudiated him. he would resign Inatanter, accepting their Judgment as final, without awaiting await-ing the report of the congressional Investigating In-vestigating committee Secretary llalllnger said: "What I have said before along that line still lands. I will not resign aa long aa I am sustained by the president. I can't sea what connection the other members of the cabinet can have In thla matter. Certainly I have never made any such suggestions and I am Ignorant of such a suggestion having been made by aay other member of tha rablnet. If such a suggestion has been made, which I am wholly disinclined disin-clined to believe." |