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Show I JAM RESIGNS I FROM POLICE 1 Fatrolman Asserts Chief Has Given Him "Cold Shoulder" Ti-afflc Officer Harry V5. Elam. th ls recently reinstated In the police department by the Ogden cMl Wr- sr slon alter he in,.; bet discharged following- an altercation with Sergeant A. fl. Stephens. ye-ster-l jay presented his resignation to Chief j Of Police Jon-ithon Jones. The reslg-Bation reslg-Bation was accepted. In his resignation, which wa - WTIt-frn WTIt-frn o,:t. Klam declared thai further servloo with the department would! bring humiliation upon hlmeell and oiher offleer He also intimated that the post assigned him pin.-.' hi.-- return, to active duty, that of traffic officer:,! was not to his liklnjr Wis RESIGN H)N ills rcMgnntlon. as presented to Chief Jones, follows: rieasf accept my resignation effective at once. T feel that the action of the members of the department de-partment toward nie sin. I was reinstated has Indicated that I .nil not wanted in the d purlmi nt. In order (o avoid further humiliation humilia-tion to the members of the department de-partment as well as to myself in ' the cls of work Riven to me 1 1 feel that my resignation will solve the solution. I in rf.mm- rii'iv.- upon his rcsigna- " 9 i. on las: night. Kiai.. '-'"I .'.. I- not given his former position ai pa-'J pa-'J trolman when he returned to wo; , but Instead was assigned to the traffic M bb lered to - IjBH f..r eis;ht hours a 8J11H ai puruu- 1 n.l I v oi l) SHI i I i.i i: EmH the department.' Klam declared, 'the Kl Ohiof has given nie the cold should' PHs9 and Sergeant Stephens, who w a- K&j sponsible for my first discharge; h iOi BH1 mfused to spook to me. thus creating BcH : feelinc tha 1 Was not wanted. KH "I believe It was .spite work In mak- KH ing me stand for eiht hours n day WmWW- in the cold at the corner of Twenty-' aflK fifth street and Washing-ton avonui LBf so that city officials could ga7e ou'. f l.jfl; -hrough the windows of their steam-heated steam-heated offices and watch every move fS ' I made mLvgt "When I was reinstated to the de- rfl partment I had the nghf to believe Kl that I would he given my former Job B as night patrolman. However, three YH nights after my return I was ordered !ES to take the day shift as traffic of- I ioer nid to stand at llie Intersection WmjM of Twenty-fifth street and Wnshing- Bji '.on avonu'. Ill "This change of shift, coupled -with J live feeling th.it has existed an. and TB 1 the stat I .p Si Wm m to ficn !. thai I Ik- mil'' . 1 u i . . i . i ViP the problem was to reslm J. SWS JOB PROMOTION Chief Jones declared following I Blam's resignation that the chnng i S3 ij shift was nol made e anj means of S3 tl iiunlshn.ent for ESiani On jto trary lie said that the traffic Job 4 C really a promotion and that only the ma k most efficient f.n.i experienced offish offi-sh cars were selected for traffic posts. H "Elam was assigned as traffic of-33 of-33 f.eer on March 1. when nun'': ttf other shift were i h ing d and lh -dgnment was not " than to keep the department In i V ( Hon." Chief Jones said ro 1 |