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GOVERNING BOARD

CLEMENT L. 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

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. Elizabeth Mason-Hohl, President
Am. Med. Women's Assn.
Lauretta Schimmoler, President
Aerial Nurse 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 Division
Pan-American Airways
Robb C. Oertel, Aviation Sales Division
Standard Oil Co. of N. J.
Charles H. Babb
Airplane Exporter

March 8, 1941

Miss Lee Ya-ching
Hotel Algonquin
New York, N.Y.

Dear Ya-ching,

Enclosed is the Bill for out-of-town calls and telegrams which were charged to our New York office. Those which are checked are the ones that Miss Smith recalls having made. She believes that some telegrams and large phone calls were made by you or Jane from the Algonquin and charged to our office. I am sorry, if that was the case, as it makes it too difficult for me to keep track of charges for which Relief Wings is responsible, particularly when the margin of our budget is so very small. That is the reason why I asked, in the agreement letters between us, that no long distance phone calls or other charges be made without my approval because, obviously, I could not approve of calls for which we have no money in the bank. Perhaps you did not make them and that Miss Smith has forgotten her own calls. In any case, these charges are far beyond that which I had set aside for last month's phone bill and I am very much concerned regarding the same. Will you be so kind as to check with Jane and then let me know, immediately, c/o Miss Stella J. Ormston, 527 Second Ave. South, St. Petersburg.

The $500 which we needed was subscribed by Fred Poor, former president of the Bath Club, but although he signed a subscription blank to give this amount, he said he was not sending it until he reached Chicago this week-end and would then send it to our New York Treasurer. Consequently, I am a little dubious as to whether I should proceed until it is in the bank.

I am more than ever convinced from the difficulty I am having in raising money without a substantial financial group supporting a large national organization, that I should quickly establish three Relief Wings Sectional Units in Fort Worth, California and Chicago, and then spend the rest of my time concentrating upon Washington for permanent underwriting.