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Luce's Press Clipping Bureau
NEW YORK, N.Y.
CLIPPING FROM May 20, 1939
SALT LAKE CITY (UTAH) TRIBUNE

Committees Announce Plans for Two-Day
Visit of Famed Chinese Aviatrix in S.L.

Plans for the visit of Miss Lee Ya Ching, internationally famed Chinese aviatrix, in Salt Lake City Monday and Tuesday were announced Friday by Wallace Leong, president of the Utah chapter of the Chinese Wart Relief association.

Miss Lee, who is flying her red monoplane, "The Spirit of New China," on a nation-wide tour in the interest of Chinese war relief will arrive Monday, flying here from Boisie, Idaho. 

Her first public appearance here will be at a mass meeting Monday at 8 p.m., in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Second East and Second South streets. The China Aid council of Salt Lake City is sponsoring the public meeting.

Her appeal for aid for the Chinese refugees will also be made at the joint meeting of Rotary club and the chamber of commerce, Tuesday noon at the Hotel Utah.

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Miss Lee Ya Ching... Will fly the "Spirit of New China" to Salt Lake City.

Miss Lee will be the honored guest at a reception and tea Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Burton W. Musser, 1135 Harvard avenue. The committee assisting Mrs. Musser consists of women prominent in Utah's civic and social life.

The Chinese War Relief association will be host to Miss Lee at a dinner Tuesday evening in the Kwong Nom Low cafe, 54 West Second South street, She plans to take off for Omaha Wednesday morning.

Originally scheduled to have come here this week end, Miss Lee was forced to delay her visit because of an unscheduled stop in Victoria, B.C. She has just completed a tour of the Pacific coast states. Th American tour is sponsored by a committee headed by Colonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.