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Show PLANE MOTOR QUITS OVER SALUAKE SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 1 (U.R) Battered and bruised from a nine-hour battle with turbulent waves of Great Salt Lake, Lieut. Lucien N. Powell, Pow-ell, Cheyenne, Wyo., army reserve re-serve flier, reached shore safely early today after his plane crashed into the lake late yesterday. Powell believes his mechanic, Henry Pearson, private first class, is dead. The flier, naked and shivering, was picked up by sheriff's officers offi-cers on the highway near Black Rock, a bathing resort on the lake. He said the motor of his plane "quit" while he and Pearson Pear-son were returning to Salt Lake City from Wendover, Utah, on a practice flight. Powell made shore after scores of boats enlisted fn a search for the airmen had given up the hunt, due to a rising wind which whipped whip-ped the lake surface into a white foam. |