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[[left margin]] AVIATION ENDORSERS Jack Frye, President T. W. A. Inc. W. A. Patterson, President United Air Lines, Inc. C. R. Smith, President American Air lines, Inc. Colonel Edgar S. Gorrell, President Air Transport Assn. of America Ernest Gamache, Executive Director Air Youth of America Colonel John H. Jouett, President Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce S. Paul Johnson, Coordinator of Research National Advisory Comm. for Aeronautics Casey Jones, President Casey Jones School of Aeronautics Robert H. Hinckley, Chairman Civil Aeronautics Board Dr. James H. Kimball, Chief N. Y. Weather Bureau Douglas O. Langstaff, President State Aviation Officials C. T. Ludington, President Aircraft Owners & Pilots Assn. Major Claude Morgan, Director Los Angeles Aero Squadron Al Near, President Airport Executives Assn. James B. Taylor, Former President Aviation Country Clubs Mrs. Louise Thaden, 1st Nat'l Chm. The 99 Club Charles Colvin, Member of Council Institute of Aeronautical Sciences Devon Francis, President Aviation Writers Assn. ADVISORS Dr. Ross McIntyre, Surgeon General U.S.N. Central Committee, American Red Cross Clarence E. Pickett, Exec. Secretary American Friends Service Committee Mrs. F. Louis Slade, Vice Chairman Allied Relief, Inc. Stephen Gallatti, Natl. Exec. Chairman American Field Service James Wood Johnson, President American Volunteer Ambulance Corps. com. E. J. Parker Salvation Army Joy Homer Church Committee for China Relief Mrs. Rebecca Timbres Quaker medical relief in India and Russia His Excellency HJ. J. Procope Minister from Finland Dr. John E. Baker, Executive Director China Famine Relief Dr. William W. Cadbury, Chairman International Red Cross, Canton Dr. Co Tui, Executive Director American Committee for China Medical Relief John S. Bonnell - Presbyterian William Callahan - Catholic Allan K. Chalmers - Congregational Harry Emerson Fosdick - Baptist Samuel Goldensen - Hebrew Rufus M. Jones - Quaker Elmore M. McKee - Episcopal Paul E. Scherer - Lutheran Ralph W. Sockman - Methodist John Haynes Holmes - Community Church Dr. D. S. Brachman, Secretary Aero Medical Assn. Capt. Harry G. Armstrong Medical Corps, Wright Field Dr. Elixabeth Mason-Hohl, President Am. Med. Women's Assn. Lauretta Schimmoler, President Aerial Nurs Corps of America J. B. Hartranft, Jr., Exec. Director Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assn. Ralph Damon, Vice President American Air Lines, Inc. Members of Foreign Operations Divison Pan-American Airways Robb C. Oertel, Aviation Sales Division Standard Oil Co. of N. J. Charles H. Babb Airplane Exporter [[/left margin]] Suggested Form Letter Governing Board Clement M. Biddle, Treasurer Treas., N.Y., Meeting Relig. Soc. Of Friends (Quakers) Gill Robb Wilson Mrs. Henry Hill Pierce Ray Newton Ruth Nichols, Executive Director Relief Wings Incorporated For Humanitarian Use of Airplanes in Civilian Service, In War or Peacetime Disasters, at Home and Abroad HEADQUARTERS: 342 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. MURRAY HILL 2-3411 Mr. _______ City State Dear Mr. _____, Miss Lee Ya-ching, China's foremost woman flyer, and Miss Ruth Nichols, famous American pilot, are making a fast tour of the UnitedStates in behalf of Relief Wings, Inc.:- a service to provide aviation facilities for civilian disaster relief at home and abroad. It is unnecessary for me to point out in detail the need for air transportation where distances are great and means of transportation few or often blockaded as they are in China. Even in [[struck out]] this country [[/struck out]] the United States for flood, hurricane, fires or other large-scale calamities, it becomes necessary to use aviation facilities, and curiously enough in this advanced country, civilian aviation has not, until now, been registered and coordinated for such a purpose. Miss Nichols is Executive Director of Relief Wings and Miss Lee Director of its Chinese Division. Both girls are flying a Beechcraft airplane which has been given to the organization by Mr. C. V. Whitney, prominent New York sportsman. While on this tour, they wish to form Sectional Relief Wings Units, with the appointment of Volunteer Sectional Directors and Captains of Flight Surgeons, Nurses and Amateur Radio Operators. They also wish to acquaint the public through newspapers and addresses before important groups concerning this humanitarian air service. Finally, and as is usually the most necessary objective in organized efforts, they need to raise substantial funds to support the service, and to provide and operate specially equipped ambulance or relief airplanes for use in China and the United States. All funds received on this tour, unless specifically earmarked, will be equally divided between the work of Relief Wings in the UnitedStates and China, It would be of great assistance to this needed service, if you could arrange a dinner of wealthy and influential residents before whom Miss Nichols and [[right margin]]Leave wider margin[[/right margin]]