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[[top margin]] 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 [[/top margin]] RELIEF WINGS INCORPORATED TO PROVIDE The Humanitarian Use of Aviation Facilities in Civilian Service, for War or Peacetime Disasters, at Home and Abroad HEADQUARTERS: 342 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. MURRAY HILL 2-3411 [[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. CHARLES COLVIN, Member of Council Institute of Aeronautical Sciences DEVON FRANCIS, President Air Transport Assn. of America COLONEL EDGAR S. GORRELL, President Air Transport Assn. of America ERNEST GAMACHE, Executive Director Air Youth of America ROBERT H. HINCKLEY, Chairman Civil Aeronautics Board 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 DR. JAMES H. KIMBALL, Chief N. Y. Weather Bureau DOUGLASS 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 ADVISORY COMMITTEES ON RELIEF 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 ON HUMANITARIAN POLICY 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 ON TECHNICAL AVIATION 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 [[/left margin]] April 1, 1941 Miss Lee Ya-ching Hotel Algonquin New York, N.Y. Dear Ya-ching, I am sorry that the enclosed check for $25.00 was not signed, and I am returning it to you herewith. In regard to Florida contributions received, dear, since you left Miami you will recall that our agreement was that contributions received from the [[underline]]public[[/underline]], which were not earmarked, would be divided between China, the UnitedStates and Quaker relief. But, as I also pointed out to you, we have a very big program to get under way in the United States, requiring a budget of about $25,000 a year as a minimum. Since I have had to spend so much time in Florida and on tour, it is not possible for me to renew some of the old contributions. Therefore, I must consider the future stability of Relief Wings. For that reason, I have felt it necessary to ask those contributors whom I, personally, solicit, to [[underline]]earmark[[/underline]] their gifts specially for the United States Division. In the case of Mr. Widener, I first asked him to consider giving me, along with Mr. Danforth, and four others, the money for an ambulance airplane. But Mr. Danforth has not come through and the other three that I had hoped for in Palm Beach, have, so far, not given their checks for an ambulance plane. Consequently, there was no reason for keeping [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] Widener's money out of use, and I told him that we needed very much to have this money for the establishment of Relief Wings Units throughout the country, and would like to use it for that purpose instead. He agreed to this most heartily and, therefore, I felt that the use of his $5,000 was justifiably put in the United States Division, as well as in the spirit of our work. You see, Ya-ching, although there is great suffering now in China, it takes [[underline]]time[[/underline]] to register and coordinate aviation facilities so that they may be efficiently available when needed for a possible war situation in the United States, as well as natural disasters. It will probably take two years to set up
