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SHE FLIES FOR CHINA Lee Ya Ching is China's First Lady of the Air and one of her most distinguished - and most beautiful - Ambassadors of Goodwill. She was the first of her sex in China to fly, and her example inspired many Chinese youths now flying in China's Air Force. It was to help China that Lee Ya Ching decided to learn to fly. Her own country then having no aviation schools, this modern girl of New China went to Switzerland for instructions, and became the first woman of any nationality to receive a pilot's license in [[/strikethrough]] that country [[/strikethrough]] Geneva. Determined to become the best - and not just a good - flyer, Miss Lee then entered the Boeing School of Aeronautics in Oakland, California, and today has the distinction of being the only woman to take the full course of pilot training by this famous school. Lee Ya Ching then returned to China and put her ability and time at her country's disposal. She [[crossed-out]] gave [[crossed-out]] made exhibition-flights to raise money for fighting planes, as a gesture of admiration for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on his 50th anniversary. She next piloted a government plane around China to interest China's young men in aviation. After that, she flew another 30,000 miles on a survey of airport sites. When Japan invaded China, Miss Lee organized hospital and refugee relief in Shanghai, and when that city fell, she continued this work in Hongkong. + Canton At the end of 1938, Miss Lee came to this country to tell China's story, [[strikethrough]] - [[/strikethrough]] and she has been telling it ever since--to China's great profit. In fighting for China, Miss Lee is carrying on a tradition started by her great-grandfather - a fervent enemy of tyranny and of the hated Manchu dynasty. Miss Lee's own grandparents, as well as her father and mother, risked wealth, position and their lives to further the revolutionary plants of Sun Yat-sen, and did much to help him establish the Chinese Republic. Miss Lee is determined that this Republic, whose existence her family helped to secure, shall live. *********
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