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CHINA WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION of AMERICA UTAH BRANCH - 245 SOUTH MAIN STREET SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH MAY 29, 1939 WALLACE LEONG, President QUENTIN CHINN, Vice President ALFRED MONG, Secretary BEN LEE, Treasurer Bishop Paul Yu Pin 1514 Webster Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. Dear Bishop Yu Pin: At the request of Miss Lee Haching, I am sending you a report upon her visit here on May 23 and 24, which I am gratified to say was very successful in the interest of the Chinese relief cause. The Utah chapter of the China War Relief Association was fortunate in obtaining the assistance of some prominent men and women as well as well sustained publicity from the day that her visit was contemplated. Enclosed in a check for $136.10 which is the contributions collected at a tea given in Miss Lee's honor, also a file of the publicity given in the three Salt Lake City newspapers-- the Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake Telegram, and the Desert News. Arriving here on Tuesday morning, May 23, Miss Lee addressed the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce that noon. She was well received, but disappointing was the club rule against an open solicitation of funds, although a number of members asked where they might contribute. Mrs. Burton W. Musser, widely known as a United States representative to the recent Pan-American Conference, was the motivating influence behind the tea. She enlisted the aid of the women, among them being Mrs. Henry H. Blood, wife of the Utah Governor; Mrs. Robert H. Hinckley, wife of the Chairman of the National Civil Aeronautics authority; Mrs. John M. Wallace, wife of the Mayor of Salt Lake City; Mrs. James H. Wolfe, wife of the Associate State Supreme Court Justice; Mrs. Will S. McQuilkin, U.S. Collector of Customs for the Utah district; Mrs. James A. Hogle, wife of a prominent business men; Mrs. Edmund Kearns, widow of the former associate publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune, and many others active in the civic and social life of the community. Miss Lee spoke twice during the tea. Miss Lee addressed a mass meeting that evening in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, which was attended by several hundred friends of the Chinese. Contributions were collected afterward amounting to $109.63, the check having been sent by the China Aid Council to Dr. George Barry O'Toole, Washington, D.C., three days ago. Later that evening she was the guest of the China War Relief Association at a banquet.
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