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Show OFfSCER REAST I IS DISMISSED H Strong- Influence Brought to Bear on Sam Browning to Drive Reast M Yrom Duty Men of Wealth Register Protest After Being H "Pulled" by the Special Officer City Commission- H er Yields to the Voice of the Influential. H i H Officer William Reast, regulator of U the movements of bicycles and motor B--- vehicles In and for the city of Ogdcn, j was unceremoniously dismissed from Hl the sen-ice Sunday night by Chief of WA Police Norton, who acted under or- WM ders received from Police Commls- WM sfoner Sam Browning. At the same WJL time Officers Peter Navlin and T. H. M Blackburn wero laid off, but their m layoffs were ordered because tho po- 1 lice department was carrying too H heavy a payroll. Naylln and Black- H i burn wore the youngest men on the WM force in point of service, j Not so with William Reast, howoTer K Mr. Reast had served contlnuousl.v aa H a special officer for something llko 1 two rears, and many men had been H hired slnco he went on tho Job The U dismissal of Officer Reast is believed to be the direct result of pressure WM that was brought to bear upon the WM city commissioners by wealthy cltl- Hl zens who fell within the grasp of the H speed officer's official hand. j It was stated that influential citl- B zens, who have been arrested by Mr H Reast and fined in police court for H exceeding the speed limit, had not a Hl little to do with tho dismissal of the H Officer Reast is known as one of WM the most faithful men who ever work- WM ed on tho local polico force Chief H Norton always has spoken of Mr. Reast's work as being consistent and B"- fair, and has proclaimed him as being H ono of the most tireless workers on H, the forco. Mr. Reast was an officer Hf vho discriminated against nobody. He Hj drew no lines, apparently, and made H no concessions to tho rich nor tho Hf poor. He has the reputation of having 1 treated thorn all alike when It came WM to dealing with the people of tho city. H and among his associates he was re- H garded as a man who never played a WM favorite. That seems to be the prin- H cipal reason why he was placed under H the official ax when his month ended H Sunday night H It is charged that Reast did not H exercise a discriminating judgment, H that he would arrest a man for vto- H lating the speed limit in the outskirts H of the city where no ono lived as H quickly as the man who exceeded the H speed limit on Washington avenue, H with hundreds of children playing in H the street |