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COPY 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.