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RELIEF WINGS
INCORPORATED
"HUMANITARIAN SERVICE BY AIR"

HEADQUARTERS: 342 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y.
MURRAY HILL 2-3411

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS
DOMESTIC
Coordination Chairman - O.M. Mosier
Airplanes and Pilots - Mr. Casey Jones
Flight Surgeons - Dr. Ermin L. Ray
Flight Nurses - Miss Gayle Pond, R.N., M.A.
Amateur Radio Opers.
Mr. Richard Nebel, A.R.R.L.
Alaska - Mr. Joseph Crosson

Publicity and Washington Rep.
Mr. Lyle Brookover
Legal - Mr. William Crawford, Jr.
Accounting - Vulcan & Chontow
Clerical - Miss Mercedes Ormston

FOREIGN
China - Miss Lee Ya-ching
Europe - Mr. James Vail

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
Colonel Edgar S. Gorrell, President
Air Transport Assn. of America
Ernest Gamache, Executive Director
Air Youth of America
Robert H. Hinckley
Ass't. Sec. of Commerce for Air
Colonel John H. Jouett, President
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
S. Paul Johnson, Coordinator of Research
National Advisory Comm. for Aeronautics
Dr. James H. Kimball, Chief
N.Y. Weather Bureau
Martin C. Dexter, 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.
Mrs. Alice McLean
Am. Wom. Vol. Services
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. 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
Gill Robb Wilson, Chairman
Pres. Nat. Aeron. Assoc.
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, Founder
Aerial Nurse Corps of America
J. B. Hartranft, Jr., Exec. Director
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assn.
Ralph Damon, President
Republic Aircraft Corporation
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

GOVERNING BOARD
Gill Robb Wilson
Katherine C. Pierce
Ray Newton
Clement M. Biddle, Treasurer 
Treas. Friends (Quakers) Gen. Conf.
Ruth R. Nichols, Exec. Director

November 5, 1941.

Mr. Clarence Pickett, Executive Secretary
American Friends Service Committee
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Dear Clarence,

In accordance with my telephone conversation November 4th with you, as well as with Mr. Tanner, also of the American Friends Service Committee, I am enclosing a check in the sum of One Thousand seven hundred ($1700.00) Dollars, which comprises the total share of contributions Relief Wings has collected to date for the expediting of medical supplies and relief workers for the relief of civilian suffering in unoccupied China.

This money we wish to have sent to:

Dr. Robert B. McClure, Director
Friends Ambulance Unit
c/o The International Red Cross Committee
Kweiyang,
Kwei Chow, China.

It is being sent with an understanding that this money will be used in behalf of Chinese people, and not for any other race who may be living in areas being served by the Friends Ambulance Unit. We are making this request because of the splendid work which Miss Lee Ya-Ching carried on in assisting to raise this fund for Relief Wings and because of her natural interest in her countrymen as Director of Relief Wings Chinese Division. We feel her wish should be adhered to in this respect.

It was our original hope that we could send an airplane to China with sufficient money to operate it there for at least a year. Because of the fact it seemed wisest, first, to organize aviation facilities in the United States for humanitarian service, thereby setting our own house in order, we have not concentrated our fund raising efforts upon China. Consequently, since the money was solicited on the basis of "expediting relief supplies by air", we now believe that the money collected should be sent to China.

On the basis of the above, we believe that Dr. McClure will find many occasions for the money, either for the chartering of several airplanes, or for the use of existing airlines in China, thereby expediting medical assistance to suffering Chinese.