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NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1941

Mrs. Roosevelt Buys 3 Dresses To Help China

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Sends One to Mme. Chiang for Kindness in Orient to Capt. James Roosevelt
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   Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt bought three Chinese print dresses yesterday at Arnold Constable & Co., Fifth Avenue and Fortieth Street, in a preview of the type of dresses that will be placed on sale Monday in 1,500 stores throughout the United States for the benefit of Chinese relief. Mrs. Roosevelt selected two of a powder-blue shade for herself and picked out a third for Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, wife of China's Generalissimo. 
   The dress selected for Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, a rayon shantung creation of Imperial Navy shade, will be forwarded with a note from Mrs. Roosevelt to Mme. Chiang, by the Chinese Consul General in New York to Chungking, seat of the Chinese government. In her note, Mrs. Roosevelt thanked Mme. Chiang for her "kind" reception of Capt. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt's eldest son, who recently passed through Chungking on his way to Egypt for the United States Marine Corps.
   Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek is chairman of the Consul General's Committee of the Chinese Women's Relief Association, of 5 East Fifty-seventh Street. The committee hopes to realize $100,000 from its 5 percent concession on the nation-wide sale of dresses. Mrs. Roosevelt was accompanied to the store by Dr. Tsune Chi Yu, Chinese Consul General in New York, and Lee Ya-Ching, Chinese aviatrix, who modeled the dress selected for Mme. Chiang.
James G. Blaine, national chairman of United China Relief, announced at the organization's headquarters, 1790 Broadway, that seventy-seven American women of national prominence have pledged their aid in the campaign to raise $5,000,000. The drive will be from May 18 to 26.