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Show I Pilot Wins Death Race Flier Makes Night Dach ' BUCHANAN, Mich. Aug. It Jack Knight. veteran air mll pilot, flying through tho night, wen a, rmeo against on unseen com petltor death wlun ho landed horo about T 10 o'clock thl morning morn-ing In what I believed to bo tho longest single night right In tho hlotorr ot aviation. Racing from Cheyenne, Wyoming, nearly a thousand mlloo from hero. Knight reached homo In tlmo to find hla agod father. Dr. M. M. Knight, alivo. Handed a telegram last night Informing him that Ma father wae aertoualy III of bronchial pneumonia, air mall officials gave Pilot Knight permlaalon to make tho flight In a postoffire piano and hopped off here at 1:01 p. m, mountain time. He covered the atrotcb to Omaha In 4 houre and 4 mlnutee. arriving there at 11:41 p. m, central time. Ho reached Chicago, 4:5 miles from Omaha, at 4:41 a. ra, central time, having flown the IS mile of lighted airway between Cheyenne and Chicago In t houra and JO mlnehes. , " ' Buchanan la approximately Tl inllea front Chicago. Knight landed here In a field the nearoat to hla father'a home, he aald. and hurried to tho houee. Hla father, who haa praotteed medicine hero for many yea re and la ( yea re old, haa been tU four days and yesterday yes-terday a uttered a relapse. |