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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
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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

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