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Tuesday, July 22, 1941

Her Plane Is Called The Spirit of New China
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MISS LEE YA CHING

Chinese Woman Flies To Raise Relief Funds
Will Be Guest Speaker at Luncheon in Statler to Spur Buffalo Drive
Flying from coast to coast to raise funds for the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, Miss Lee Ya Ching, the first girl to win a pilot's license from the Chinese Government and a graduate of California's Boeing Flying School at the age of 19, will be a guest speaker at the United China Relief luncheon Thursday noon in Hotel Statler. National Chairman James G. Blaine will be the principal speaker.
Formerly a star in Chinese motion pictures, Miss Lee gave up acting more than ten years ago to become an aviatrix. After spending some time in England, where she mastered the English language, she came to America to complete her flying courses. Today she writes in the sky and is an expert stunt-flier in her Chinese-red plane, "The Spirit of New China."
At the time of the Japanese invasion, Miss Lee was a flying instructor at the Shanghai Municipal Air School. When planes were all requisitioned for fighting, she offered her services as a nurse. "I shall never forget those days, standing at the window and watching those bombs come out of the sky and crash," she said. "We would all rush to pick up the wounded and bring them to the hospital. I stayed until the city fell, then fled with my family on a refugee boat to Hongkong."
The Lion Dance, one of the oldest and most colorful customs of China, will be presented at 11:30 o'clock tomorrow morning by a group of 25 artists brought directly from New York's Chinatown. Starting from United China Relief headquarters, 294 Main st., the procession will go down Main to Seneca, then turn north to Chippewa and again south to Court Street, proceeding to the City Hall.

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BOMBER TO BRITAIN
SHE'S SEEKING NEW SKIES TO CONQUER
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IN PLANE IN WHICH SHE WON FIRST PRIZE of $12,500 in the famed Bendix Race, Jac-[[cut off]]

Floyd Odlum, wife of a New York financier. She has long been an enthusiastic advocate of women [[cut off]]

Rush Plan to End Columbus Circle Bottleneck
Plans designed to eliminate the present traffic bottleneck in Columbus Circle by a reconstruction of that auto-choked area today were being prepared for submission to the board of Estimate.
Dean G. Edwards, consulting engineer to Manhattan Borough President Isaacs, said plans were advanced to such a stage that work on the project could be started sometime in the Fall.
Construction of five parallel North-South islands to channel the traffic in and out of the Circle forms the basic pattern of the plan, he revealed.
Traffic south-bound on Broadway toward Eighth ave. and south-bound on Central Park W. toward Broadway will stream straight across the Circle through these islands. 

TRAFFIC SPEEDED
Northbound traffic on these routes will also travel directly across the Plaza, under the new plans.
Autos moving into the Circle from other routes will have to travel around the periphery.
Elimination by legal means of the 59th st. crosstown trolley line is required before the reconstruction can be launched. Other difficulties that must be ironed out are contributing to the delay in starting the program.
A saving of from $50,000 to $75,000 in the total cost has been effected. Edwards declared, by the decision not to move sidewalk subway grates from the west side of the Circle between 59th st. and Eighth ave.

Rural Photo Panels On Exhibit Tonight
Fifty specialty selected mural [[cut off]]