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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1941
THE EVENING TELEGRAM, TORONTO

CHINESE AVIATRIX ARRIVES
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Miss lee Ya Ching, pretty Chinese aviatrix, who arrived at Malton Airport to-day from new York. For the past year she has flown from coast to coast in the U. S. raising money for the United China Relief. She is a guest of the Friends of China.

CLOUD COMBING WITH JIM LOVEYS
TELEGRAM AVIATION EDITION
A Week of Flying News

Miss Lee Ya Ching arrives at Malton--Helen Harrison to London Flying Club--RAF in Celluloid--Annual Algonquin Air Cruise--Plastic Plane Parts

China's famous aviatrix, Miss Lee Ya Ching, arrived at Malton Airport today from New York to assist in raising funds in Canada for the Chinese Red Cross.
She will immediately fly to Hamilton in a Cub Aircraft machine and return to Toronto later in the week. While in the city Miss Ching will be a guest of the Friends of China.
Friends and admirers in the United China Relief gave her a rousing send-off at LaGuardia Field, N. Y.
During the past year Miss Ching has flown from coast to coast in the U. S., appealing for funds for the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, one of the eight member agencies in the $5,000,000 United China Relief Drive. She has flown every kind of plane from her bright red monoplane, "The Spirt of New China, to army bombers, and was the first girl to win a pilot's license from the Chinese government. She is a graduate of the Boeing Flying School in California.
She is a sky-writer and an expert stunt-flyer, rolling and diving her Chinese-red plane with amazing skill. Miss Ching travelled with her father to Europe and England, where she mastered English, and returned to the U. S. to complete her flying course.
Shortly after Chinese officials agreed to hive her a license she became a flying instructor at China's large flying school, the Chinese Municipal Airport--but the Japanese invasion put an end to her flying in the Orient.

sports-pilots en route to the second annual Algonquin Park Air Cruise.
The cruise is form Thursday to Monday and will be attended by about 150 flying enthusiasts, both Canadian and American. Its locale is the beautiful Highland Inn, in the heart of one of Ontario's holiday playgrounds, Algonquin Park.
The program includes a regatta, a fishing party in Openongo Lake, corn roasts, dancing and a banquet. The party will fly up from Toronto on Thursday.