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THE VANCOUVER NEWS-HER[[remainder cut off]]
Fri. May 12, 1934
Petite Chinese Girl Flyer Reaches City
   What Kipling said about East and West, and how "the twain" shall never meet, seemed to be knocked into a cocked hat Thursday when a dragon-yellow Stinson cabin plane skidded to a stop on the tarmac at the Civic Airport.
   Sole occupant of the ship was its pilot, Lee Ya Ching, a slip of a girl in jaunty slacks and sleeveless sweater, with a smudge of grease on her pretty Chinese nose.
   Miss Lee has been East so often and West so often that she hardly knows to what civilization she belongs, except that right now she is working hard in the cause of China's millions of refugees.
   It isn't what she says that makes one question Kipling's deathless phrase, but the things she has done.
   She talks about the courageous resistance of her countrymen, and says:  "China will win out in the end, I am sure of that."
   Thursday she flew here alone from Seattle, halfway through an air tour which, since March, has taken her and her Stinson monoplane from New York to Philadelphia, Houston, Texas, following a great circle of "the southern route" to the Pacific Northwest.
   Two hours after she left the airport Miss Lee moved through the lobby of the Georgia Hotel wearing an ankle-length, chocker[sp?]-necked, Chinese gown of delicately figured rose silk threaded with silver.  She wore a sprig of Lily-of-the-Valley in her black hair.
   A beauty contest judge would have a hard time charting Miss Lee at less than 100 per cent.  Her teeth are gleaming white, and her skin a warm shade of tan.  The raven locks that were crammed under a flyer's helmet in the afternoon had been combed back in a long glistening roll like the glamor girls have been wearing.
   She looked like the Oriental maiden Kipling had in mind, but isn't.
   A veteran flyer, with 400 hours in her log book, she is a graduate of the Boeing School of Aeronautics, and two years ago flew throughout China for Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to show what the emancipated woman could do with an airplane.
   Under auspices of the Chinese Benevolent Association she will address a luncheon in Hotel Vancouver at 1 p.m. Saturday, of the Catholic Women's Club; a public banquet at 5 p.m. in the Peking Chop Suey House; a public reception at 8 p.m. in the Orient Theatre, south end of Carrall Street; and a public meeting Sunday at 3 p.m. in Lyric Theatre, auspices Chinese Benevolent Association and the Chinese National Salvation League. 

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Barnstorming Chinese Girl Pilot Is Welcomed at Airport
   Miss Ya-Ching Lee, pretty "Amelia Earhart of China" arrived at Sea Island airport yesterday afternoon and proved that she is equal to any occasion.
   As she winged her bright red monoplane, "Spirit of New China," toward the field, a strong wind carried her away from the runway.  Her plane hit the field, bounced a couple of times and wobbled in the breeze.

[[Photo of Miss Lee exiting a car]]

   A crowd of 300 Chinese watched anxiously.  But Miss Lee merely waved a hand from the cabin to show that everything was under control, kept right on going, and circled the field for another try.
   The second time she glided to a perfect landing in the middle of the runway.
   Crowds around the gates applauded and cheered as the good looking Chinese girl stepped from her cabin.  Her deep black hair, done in the "page boy style, was offset by white shirt and slacks, and she wore a white gardenia.
   Channing H. Pao, local Chinese consul, was one of the first to greet her.  Ten girls, some of them in native costume, presented her with bouquets.
   Miss Lee is in Vancouver to speak Sunday at the Lyric Theatre on behalf of suffering Chinese refugees.  She has been making a flying tour of all the major U.S. cities.
   Schooled at Geneva and Oakland, Miss Lee is a member of the exclusive "Caterpillar Club."  She gained her membership when she "bailed out"