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Show UNGER KS FLIEHTRECORD ! Air Mail Pilot Flies From Reno To Salt Lake Without Stop SAL TI-.AKE. Nov 19. Pilot Kenneth Ken-neth t'nger United States mail service, serv-ice, who is credited with havim: brought down eleven German planes during the world war. yesterday made the first non-stop trip from Reno, Nevada to Salt L.ne lie made the flight of 437 miles in throe hours ami twenty-four minutes The plane was loaded with 50 pounds of mall. Pilot Unger hopped off at Reno :it 9:5S. pacific time, and arrived in Salt Lake at 2.26 o'clock, mountain time. ine hour and forty minutes elapsed from the time that Tllol Unger passed pass-ed over Elko, and the time when he arrived, at Salt Iike The flight establishes es-tablishes a record between Reno and Silt Lake, according to Cralon Nelson, Nel-son, manager of the Suit Lake air mall landing field. Pilot Unger Is acknowledged to be one of the best airmen on the Pacific division of the United States air mall route, lie enlisted in the British air force at the beginlng of the war after he had been rejected for service in the American flying corps because he was not a college graduate Pilot Eaton flew from Shatter, Nfei . lo Sa.lt Lake ye8terday, bringing Mechanic Me-chanic Jack Sclby and Pilot J- P. Murray, Mur-ray, who made a trip from Cheyenne. Wyd., to Salt Lake. Eaton made a forced landing at Shatter Wednesday because of engine trouble and Set by was sent out from Salt Lake lo help repair the machine |