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BUFFALO EVENING NEWS--Tuesday, July 22, 1941

1200 Postal Worked In Buffalo eligible For Pay Increase
Adoption of the Mead-Flannery Longevity Bill, now pending in Congress, would mean a 5-cent per hour wage increase to 1200 Buffalo Postoffice employes, it was explained today by Chairman Martin Karpick, of a joint postoffice employes committee.
The bill provides an increase of $100 in the annual salary of postal employes with ten years of service and an additional $100 after 15 years.
The Buffalo Postoffice employs 1600, including clerks, carriers, custodial and other employes. Approximately 1200 have the required ten years of service to share in the proposed increase.
"The postoffice employes have had no increase in salary since 1925, although the cost of living has increased steadily," said Chairman Karpick.
Mail clerks and carriers now begin at $1700 a year and receive $100 each year until during the fifth year they reach the salary maximum of $2100.
Other members of the joint committee are: Vice chairman, William Hearn, John Gazley, Cal McMahon, Henry W. Huber and  Francis C. Ruehl, and secretary, Elmer Seibert.
Salaries in the custodial service are considerably less than those of clerks and carriers.

The hairbrush used by the Navajo Indians is a bundle of stiff grass stems. The same brush is also used for sweeping floors.

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 stat 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.

Store Employes Are Guests
Male executives and employes of E. W. Edwards & Son were guests today of I. N. Strump, vice president and general manager, at the South Shore Country Club. A golf tournament for the store championship was followed by dinner in the clubhouse.

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