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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD 2 Monday, May8, 2000 Harm’s Way Fairbanks Jr. Passes Away At Age 90 Continued from A-1 @ Continued from A-1 used at that time. novel, and Howard Hawks’ 1930 + actioner about World War flying Pioneer Bones Are Moved From For example, experts want to éxamine the wood in the coffins to aces, “The Dawn Patrol.” He dem- confirm stories that early pioneers onstrated delightful comic timing built them with boards from the handcarts they pushed to Utah. * Another possibility is that a In the 1930s he appeared in Zenda” and “Gunga Din.” He also had the malelead in the 1934 period piece “Catherinethe Great,” playing Grand DukePeterIII of Russia. Hislast film was “‘Ghost Story,” highwayright of way where major construction is anticipated in the next several years. Ratherthan try to work around the graves,the city and UDOTdecided it would be better to carefully exhume them, learn as muchas possible from the remains, and then rebury them in asecurespot. a 1981 horror tale with Fred Astaire. The vast majority of his movies were made before 1940, at RachelQuist sifts dirt through a screenlookingfor buttons and bone fragmentsatthe pioneer cemetery. The archaeologists dug up four adults and seven children. They also excavated one ‘empty: grave right next to the highway that may have been disturbed by previous construction work. Thepioneers arrived in Tooele in 1849 andthefirst recorded death was the following year, said Bassett. The body wasburiedatthissite just south of town. The area continued to be used as crime collected by the FBI, crime was down6 percent last year in cities with populations of more than 500,000; 7 percent with 100,000 U.S. Crime Continues to 500,000 people; 8 percent with an unofficial cemetery until 1867 when Tooele’s current cemetery was created closer to town. A few of the bodies were dug up and moved to the new cemetery, but about 30 remained in the old cemetery. Gravestones were not used at the old cemetery, so it is impossi- ble to know whowasburied where. But recent archaeological studies have defined the boundaries of the old cemetery andthe location of Northeastern University. He cited an increased focus on “community policing,” under which officers emphasize quality-of-life concerns such- as cleaning up rubbish- most of the graves. Land onwhichthe old cemetery is located was donated several years ago to the Sons of the Utah Pioneers by Tooele businessman LaMarPenovich, whois building homes onadjacent lands. “T felt it was a good, reverent thing to do, in honor of the Utah pioneers,” said Penovich, who stopped by the old cemetery Sunday to watch the archaeologists at work. might be ending. Somecities are experiencing a jump in murderrates, for example. In Chicago, murders soared from which point Fairbanks began devoting his time to World WarII efforts. Fromthelate 1930s, the American government had enlisted the Anglophilic Fairbanksto facilitate a visit to the United States by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. From1939 to 1941, he was a memberof the British War Relief Association and became a prominent figure aligned with otherrelief ef- Tr SOCIATED PRI harsherfirearmslaws. than 25,000 people. Longer. sentences playa role, too, he said. The prison population Los Angeles, they held nearly steady, 426 in 1998 and 424last year. erty on the island of Vieques, a @ Continued from A-1 Suburban crime fell 8 percent last year compared with 1998, ofabout2 millionis approximately Theanticipated release of hun- twice what it was a decade ago. dreds of thousands of prison in- ‘than 100,000 community police officers and communityprosecutors, continue to drive violent crime down.” But a numberofcrime experts warn that citizens should not assume the numbers will decline forever. Some specialists cited the fact that while murder decreased by 11 percent last year in towns with fewer than 100,000 people,it dropped by only 2 percentin cities of more than 500,000, suggesting areas dropped 7 percent, the FBI said in Demographic factors have been mates incarcerated in the recent its latest Uniform Crime Report. More than 17,000 municipalities submit data to the FBI, which has significant as well. In the 1990s, there were fewer teen-age males, whooften are the most likely to been collecting the information break the law. But Fox said whathecalls the judicial crackdown andthe coming bulge in the number of teen-age males over the next few years worry Fox. The population of U.S. teens is expected to rise by 15 percent over. the next six years, he since 1960. P “Not just one factor, but many, national game of “criminal justice patterns, said James Alan Fox, an limbostick” — in which Americans have come to wonderevery expert year “how low can you go?” — are responsible” for these crime in crime statistics at +Re-Glaze YourOldTubs future reductions in large urban areas will be hard to come by. Combiningall the categories of said. “We could be blindsided by a youth crime wave,” hesaid. Navyofficial said Sunday, days after federal agents removed hundreds of protesters from a bombing range. Lt. Cmdr. 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While there is no known cure for the disease, Vincent said he might have found a way to work told Washington Post in 1982 when he was honorary CARE chairman. @ Continued from A-1 Nevada, California, Washington and Oregon,It also was discovered in Yellowstone National Park in “Sinbad the Sailor,” a swashbucklingtale that was a winking throwback to his Six MoreAre Detained on Vieques Remarkable Fall in private house, and it set the seal on it,” He was called to active Navy duty in 1941 and rose to SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Six more people have been detained crimes outside court circles to dine at a do oneplay a year, andthat’s about can counties. 703 to 841; in New York, from 633 to 671; in San Antonio,from89 to 96, and in San Diego,from 42 to 57. In while “Tt was thefirst recorded time that a British monarch has stepped cial envoy to several Latin Ameri- . as well bersof the royal family. cast to the UnitedStates. He continued to act in stage plays, even into his later years. “I strewn as In 1953, news accountstold of a historic dinnerhe gave in honor of forts. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him a spe- 25,000 to 100,000 people; and 7 percent with populations of fewer properties, tion to Mountbatten, Fairbanks Queen Elizabeth and other mem- “Little Caesar,” “The Prisoner of Salt LakeTribune the reserve as a captain in 1954. In 1949, King George VI of England gave Fairbanks an honorary knighthood. Through his wartime connecentered high British social circles. derful Time” in 1938. “Trent Nelson/The batten in a commandooperation. Fairbanks, whose military awards included the Silver Star and Legion of Merit, retired from Ginger Rogers in “Having a Won- documents will allow names to be attached to someof the exhumed used to confirm suspected family ties. “We're going to get them [the skeletons] to talk to us,” said nn. Everett Bassett, an archaeolo-. gist for the consulting firm of Dames and Moore/URS,said reloeating the graves was part of a compromise between the Utah Department of Transportation dnd TooeleCity. The problem is that part of the old cemetery extends into the British Adm. Lord Louis Mount- in William Wellman’s “LoveIs a Racket” in 1932, and starred with comparison of the information from the graves with historical bodies. Genetic analysis could be AT commander duringfive years’ service. He saw combatin Europe and the Mediterranean. His assignments included serving under |