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UNITED CHINA RELIEF - OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To Miss Lee Ya-Ching 
Date October 14, 1943
From Elizabeth Jorsick
Subject: Pennsylvania engagements - Oct. 18-22

On Monday, October 18 you are scheduled to speak for the Lehigh County United Appeal in Allentown, Pennsylvania. This is to be a rally opening the campaign and it will take place at 8 pm in Rockney Hall. They expect an attendance of about 5,000. They asked that you speak for about ten minutes on UCR and the need for War Chest support. In addition to your talk there will be local speakers, a service man and a musical program. The man who made the request is Mr. John L. Hall, 32 N. Fifth Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania (telephone 9568).

To get there take the Lehigh Valley train leaving Penn Station at 4:10 pm, arriving in Allentown at 6:18. There is no parlor car on this train and therefore we have been unable to get a Pullman seat for you. I wonder if you could pick up your ticket when you go to the station as we simply haven't enough messengers to send out someone to buy it. We are informing Mr. Hall that you will be arriving on this train and they will probably meet you at the station. We are asking him to make a reservation for you to spend the night there as you will be leaving Allentown for the meetings in Connellsville and Uniontown at 11:14 in the morning on the United Airlines.


We don't have the full details on the meetings in Connellsville and Uniontown. All we know is that the Connellsville meeting will be in the evening, October 19 and the Uniontown meeting will be on the morning of October 20. As I said, you will leave Allentown at 11:14 am by United Airlines, arriving in Cleveland at 1:39 pm, then leave Cleveland at 2:25 via Pennsylvania Central Airlines and arrive in Pittsburgh at 3:32 pm. You will be met at the airplane and driven to Connellsville, some 50 or 60 miles away. 

After the Uniontown meeting on Wednesday morning, October 20, you will be driven to Brownsville, Pennsylvania to speak at an evening meeting there. We have asked them to drive you to Pittsburgh from Brownsville and to reserve a bedroom for you on the train leaving Pittsburgh at 11 pm arriving in New York on the morning of October 21. However, if you decide to go on to Wilmington from Pittsburgh you can just get off the train at Philadelphia and go on to Wilmington from there.

The man who has made the request and the arrangements is Mr. W.P. Schenck, Secretary, Fayette County War Fund, 724 layette Title and Trust Company, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

On Friday, October 22, you are scheduled to speak for the Home Economics Section fo the Delaware State Teachers Association at the Pierre S. Dupont High School in Wilmington, Delaware. This will take place at 10 am and they would like you to give a rather long talk--you may choose your own subject but they would like something that would promote better understanding between the people of China and America. There will be about 100 teachers present. The person who made the request is Miss Emily A. King, State Supervisor of Home Economics, State House, Dover, Delaware (telephone, Dover 5711, ext. 108).