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There is a [[underline]]great need today[[underline]], both at home and abroad for a [[underline]]humanitarian[[underline]] [[underline]]air service[[underline]] [[underline]]RELIEF WINGS' NATIONAL AIR TOUR[[underline]] A. Relief Wings' own Beechcraft airplane will be flown to various large cities in the United States, and, according to present plans, will carry Miss Ruth Nichols, Executive Director of Relief Wings, as [[struck out]]First[[/struck out]] Pilot Miss Lee Ya-Ching, China's most famous woman flyer, as [[struck out]]Co-[[/struck out]] Pilot A Representative of a European relief agency B. The purpose of the tour is 1. To organize Sectional Units headed by Volunteer Sectional Directors, each assisted by two volunteer Flight Leaders, who can, in his absence, act as substitute. Each Unit then appoints Captains and a First and Second Reserve Corps from among Pilots, Flight Surgeons, and Flight Nurses who will be registered and instructed in coordination procedure when relief by air is needed. 2. To acquaint the public with the service that aviation can offer in meeting humanitarian needs. 3. To raise funds for: -- a. The organizing and maintaining of a disaster relief service by air in the United States. b. The purchaseof airplane equipment and operation costs for one year of an aerial unit in unoccupied China and/or expediting the transportation of medical or emergency civilian relief supplies by air. c. [[struck out]]Expediting by air the transporting of medical and emergency civilian relief supplies in the Five Small Democracies of Europe[[/struck out]] Assisting in its European relief work of the American Friends Service Committee (quakers) C. All checks should be made payable to Clement M. Biddle, Treasurer, Relief Wings, Inc., 342 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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