Value of Property (Except Cars)
Stolen Last Year Decreases 47%
The second annual report of the
Department of Territorial Police
has been released. It describes the
activities of the 46 commissioned
and 24 noncommissioned person
nel during 1955.:
The Department of Territorial
Police was originally created with
the intention that, in time, it
should be able to assume full re
sponsibility for law enforcement
in the rural and unincorporated
areas of the Territory of Alaska.
The development of an efficient,
modern police department is an
evolutionary process.
The statistical information rela
tive to the incidence of crime in
Alaska is generally applicable
only to the rural and unincorpor
ated areas. In those instances
where information is derived from
reports received in common by
the Territorial Police and munici
pal agencies, this distinction is
made.
Crime Trends
It is not possible to make an ac
curate determination of crime
trends for Alaska as a whole. On
the basis of the information avail
able, the following generalizations
may be made.
1. The number of major crimes
reported during the year de
creased by 2 percent as a whole.
2. There was a decrease of ap
proximately 47 percent in the to
tal value of property (exclusive of
automobiles) reported stolen dur
ing 1955.
Robery
Thirty-six robberies were com
mitted in the rural and unincor
porated areas of Alaska in 1955.
Aggravated Assault
Sparsely populated rural areas
very frequently experience an un
usually high incidence of aggra
vated assault. In 1955 there were
59 reported. This is an increase of
24 percent over 1954. Twenty
seven persons were arrested and
charged with this offense, as com
pared with 33 arrests in 1954.
Burglary
There was a 31 percent increase
in the number of burglaries re
ported in 1955 over 1954.
A considerable proportion of
the increase in the incidence of
this crime is reflected in the fre
quency with which outlying cab
ins are broken into and rifled
during the summer and fall. In
the past, many Alaskans have
customarily left their cabins open
i and unattended with the under
standing that its contents were
| available for the use of any
J stranger who might be temporari
! ly stranded in the vicinity.
During recent years, the in
creasing number of cabin break
ins in the rural areas, accompan
ied by the malicious destruction
of property in many instances, has
menaced the cabin owner or rural
householder to the extent that
cabins are very seldom left un
locked. Where the owner may be
absent for a prolonged period, the
contents are customarily removed.
The rural cabin owner has had
progressively less security for his
property in recent years. This is
one of the most difficult problems
with which the Department is
faced, and the investigation and
prevention of these crimes is se
verely handicapped by reason of
the remoteness of the cabin sites.
Forty-three persons were ar
rested and charged with the crime
of burglary in 1955. This is an
increase of 42 percent over 1954.
Larceny
Two hundred and thirty-five
larcenies in excess of $50 were
reported in 1955. All types of lar
ceny, from car stripping to shop
lifting, are included in this figure.
The most significant statistic in
respect to this category of offense
j (larceny) may be found in the to
tal value of property exclusive of
automobiles, reported stolen. This
was $102,313.27, compared with
$192,987.48 for 1954. This is a de
crease of 42 percent.
Auto Theft
There were 303 verified auto
theft reports received in 1955. A
( majority of these were for thefts
| which occurred in the rural and
unincorporated areas of Alaska.
This is a decrease of 10 percent
from 1954.
|
Chemical Tests for Intoxication
A major step forward in the
I traffic enforcement program of the
: Department was made last year
j by the introduction of the Harger
I Drunkometer test to determine
intoxication.
Many of the objective symp
toms of intoxication are not al
ways true symptoms of the intoxi
cation of a motorist.
The use of chemical tests for
intoxication is a sound and equi
table approach to the solution of
this problem. The officer is en
abled to present the court,with
objective proof of the condition
of the accused in the event the
test indicates his guilt, or to com
pletely exonerate him if the test
so directs. Thus personal variation
in judging “under the influent-^’
is eliminated and enforcement is
standardized.
WE AT HE II i'O RECAST
Complied by the
U.S. Dept of Commerce Weather Bureau
Fair and continued cold. Low
temperature expected tonight -25.
High tomorrow -8.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
-15, lowest -23. Max. wind 24 mph
from the west. Sunrise at 7:17
a.m., sunset at 5:13 p.m.
A year ago today: high 10, low'
-10. Extremes this date since 1907:
highest 35 in 1928, lowest -26 in
1926.
Olher stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -25 Cloudy
Kotzebue -37 Cloudy
Nome -I? C*°udy
Unala kleet -35 ear
Bethel -24 £ ear
McGrath -24 - Clear
Anchorage 17 fow
Fairbanks * 8 n”W
Edmonton 10 Cloudy
Juneau 24 Snow
Ketchikan 32 Cloudy
Seattle 40 Ram
San Francisco 50 (loud}
Avalanche Doesn’t Stop
Business of the Lord
OURAY, Colo., —An ava
! lanche near this town high in the
southwestern Colorado Rockies
failed to stop the business of the
Lord.
The Rev. J. H. Halloran, Catho
lic priest at Ouray, set out over
11,000-foot Red Mountain Pass
Friday for his parish at Silverton
and found the highway blocked.
But there, on the other side of
the mass of snow, was the Rev.
Marvin Hudson, a Prdtestant min
ister, headed the other way.
They swapped cars.
Later, missions accomplished,
they met and returned cars.
Marilyn Monroe Returns
To Hollywood to Work
Again With 20th Century
HOLLYWOOD, (A*!—M arilyn
Monroe is back in town.
Feeling “a bit tired,” the shape
ly actress arrived by air from New
York Saturday to do "Bus Stop,”
her first film for 20th Century
Fox since she and the studio
called off a year-long feud.
Hunderds of workers and pas
sengers crowded the airport for a
glimpse of the blonde beauty, who
was modestly attired in a brown
suit and high-necked blouse.
When a newsman asked if this
indicated a change in personality
she replied:
“Same Marilyn—new suit.”
100-YEAR-OLD BACHELOR
DELTA, Colo., (At—Thomas S.
Gunn celebrated his 100th birth
day Saturday and attributed his
longevity to “never getting mar
ried.
LANDSCAPING PRANKSTER
DALLAS, (At—Police and Mrs.
J. R. Harris are looking for a
prankster with a yen for land
scaping.
Mrs .Harris complained to offi
cers Friday that a tall stranger
pulled up a gardenia bush from
her patio. He then walked around
her home, planted the two-foot
bush in a flower bed and saun
tered away.
Syrian Airliner Explores
DAMASCUS, Syria, (At — Air
port officials said the Syrian Da
kota which exploded in flight
Friday, killing 19, was struck by
lightning .
The twin-engine plane crashed
about 15 miles from Aleppo. It
was enroute to Damascus.
The pilot was Greek. The other
two crewmen and 16 passengers
were Syrians.
To prove the strength of a giant
U.S. jet bomber, the manufacturer
had to subject the plane’s wing to
a stress load of more than a billion
pounds, as much as the combined
weight of eight Forrestal aircraft
carriers, before the wing col
| lapsed, reports “Planes.”
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Democrats Take Issue With Dulles on
Ability of U.S. Program to Stop Russia
WASHINGTON, UP—Secretary
of State Dulles appeared confi
dent Saturday the United States
and its allies can defeat Russia's
new “united front” strategy of
World conquest with little change
in their own activities. Others dis
agreed.
Dulles told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Friday Rus
sia’s post-Stalin leaders are scrap
ping 30 years of Soviet policy
based on violence and intolerance
in trying to devise new plans be
cause their old programs “have
failed.”
He declared they have made
“very little progress” in their at
tempts to take over the world and
he said their new efforts to em
ploy economic aid and similar
measures to penetrate foreign
countries mean they are “playing
our game.”
“We can beat them at that
THIEVES READY TO EAT
DENVER, UP—Denver police
suspect the same thieves were in
volved in two burglaries. Annun
ciation grade school reported the
theft of six plastic plates and six
drinking glasses. A short time lat
er Mary’s Home Bakery, three
blocks from the school, said six
pies had been stolen.
POSTMASTER NOMINATIONS
WASHINGTON, UP—President j
Eisenhower has sent to the Senate i
these postmaster nominations for |
Alaska’s Second Division:
John F. Connery, Barrow; Eve- i
lvn L. Conwell, Kotzebue.
game,” he confidently declared.
In the course of the 3%-hour
session, Sens. Mansfield (D-Mont).
Barkeley <D-Ky), and Humphrey
(D-Minn) took issue with Dulles’
assertions of confidence, and Sen.
Morse (D-Ore' said as the hearing
concluded that “I don’t share that
optimism at all.”
Humphrey and Sen. Sparkman
(D-Ala) called for a change in U.S.
policies to meet the Soviet maneu
ver. Sparkman called it “tragic”
that, as he put it, “we haven’t
shown sufficient change to meet
these developments.”
On the GOP side, Sen. Aiken
<R-Vt) said the Democrats tried
without success “to find a weak
ness in Dulles’ policies and in
Dulles.” And Sen. Saltonstall (R
Mass) said Dulles’ testimony
“made sense.”
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