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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.