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Miss Le Ya Ching, China's leading pioneering aviatrix, has recently arrived in this country for a benefit flight across the country to bring to the American public first hand information concerning the destitute needs of the countless millions of refugees in China. Miss Lee's flight will have the sponsorship and blessing of Bishop Paul Yu Pin. She is scheduled to start the flight on March 20. Miss Lee, a native of Canton, China, has for a long time been interested in flying. After receiving some academic training from the St. Stevens Institute at Hongkong and the Mo [[Tyar's]] Girl School at Shanghai, she went to England in 1928, seeking an opportunity to learn to fly. But fate was against her and she had to be content to enter a private school near London and wait for better opportunities. Two years later, with her ambition still unfulfilled, she returned to China. Then a few months elapsed; Japan invaded Manchuria; she resolutely went to Europe once more to seek another chance. She travelled far and wide during the next two years and at last in 1933 she entered the Cointrain School of Aviation at Geneva, under the tutorship of Captain Weber. She proved herself a worth student and in 1934 received an amateur and private license, being the first woman ever to get a license from the school. Not the least satisfied, she came to America in 1935 to further her study in the Boering School or Aeronautics, where she also received a private license, as well as a diploma. While she was practicing acrobatic flying over San Francisco Harbor in May, 1935, her safety belt loosened and she was thrown out of the plane at 2200 feet. She had never made a jump previously but had the presence of mind to open her parachute in time. She fell into the water and, although unable to swim then, remained afloat for twenty minutes until picked up by a naval cutter. Thus she received the distinction of being invited to be a member, the only Chinese member, of America's exclusive "Caterpillar Club". She returned to China in 1936 to offer her services to her country in resisting Japanese invasion, first by awakening her countrymen to the
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