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PORTLAND (ORE.) OREGONIAN
MAY 7, 1929

Chinese Aviatrix Lands Ship in Portland During Tour to Enlist Support
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Ya-Ching Lee, Chinese goodwill aviatrix, clutched a welcomer's bouquet and her "lucky rabbit" as she beamed on Portlanders after stepping from her plan at Swan Island airport Saturday. The rabbit, of the stuffed species, rode beside Miss Lee on a non-stop flight from Red Bluff, Cal.

BY FRED M. WHITE
Staff Writer, The Oregonian

A cosmopolitan young woman named Ya-Ching Lee, whose heart is in China, the land of her birth, set a borrowed monoplane down gently on Swan Island airport Saturday afternoon after a non-stop solo flight from Red Bluff, Cal.

Before the eyes of some 250 welcoming members of Portland's Chinese community, Miss Lee switched off the motor and stepped to the ground, as fresh as the spotless white blouse and slacks she wore and the white carnation that perched jauntily over her left ear.

A few minutes later she was borne away at the head of a long parade of automobiles bearing the crossed flags of the United States and the Chinese republic. A series of Portland public appearances that began for the young aviatrix at the moment of landing will close with the members' forum meeting of the chamber of commerce Monday.

Air Interview Held

Saturday night Miss Lee was interviewed over KGW, attended a dinner in her honor at the Golden Pheasant cafe, at which S. C. Su, Chinese consul, and Mrs. Su were hosts, and spoke at a public meeting at Benson Polytechnic school auditorium.

Sunday at noon she will be entertained at tea by the Portland Chinese Women's club.

Sunday night at 6 she will be the featured guest at a banquet to be given by the China society in the Hung Far Low, and at 8 o'clock she will speak, in Chinese, to members of the Chinese community meeting at Chinese Benevolent society headquarters, 325 [[325?]] Northwest Davis street. 

Miss Lee for China

Miss Lee's purpose is frankly, and charmingly, propaganda-to inspire good will toward China and to help raise money for relief of Chinese war refugees. She speaks flawless English which she learned, she revealed, in a school in London. She took her first flying lessons in Switzerland and finished the course at Oakland, Cal.