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SHE WILL APPEAR IN FLINT

[[image]] Lee Ya Ching, noted Chinese aviatrix, who will appear in Flint in October, is greeted in New York on her arrival in a plane in which she toured several cities. The plane will be auctioned for United China Relief. [[/image]]


Famous Chinese Aviatrix To Speak Here in October

Miss Lee Ya Ching, daughter of one of China's first motion picture producers who forsook the footlights to become her nation's foremost feminine flier, will be in Flint Thursday and Friday, Oct. 2-3, on a whirlwind tour of local service and luncheon clubs, student assemblies, and other gatherings in the interest of Chinese war relief.

Her appearance here is arranged through the co-operation of the Flint United China Relief society, 724 S. Saginaw street. Mrs. John E. Wellwood is chairman in charge of arrangements. Schedule of appearances will be announced later, Mrs. Wellwood said.

Starring at the age of 16 as the Chinese Joan of Arc in the film, "mulan," Miss Lee has since 1930 devoted her time and interest to aviation, becoming the first Chinese woman to win a pilot's wings from the China government. In 1933 when only 19 years old she graduated from California's Boeing Flying School.

Today she writes in the sky and is an expert stunt flyer, diving and rolling like a veteran. During the past year she has flown from coast to coast in America, appealing for funds for the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, one of eight member agencies in the $5,000,000 United China Relief drive.

Formerly serving in an instructor's capacity at China's flying school at Shanghai, Miss Lee's career was sharply curtailed by the Japanese invasion when all planes were requisitioned for fighting and all women organized for nursing the wounded and refugee relief.

Immediately offering her services in Shanghai where terrific bombardments and shelling left thousands wounded and homeless, Miss Lee writes, "I shall never forget those days standing at the window, watching the bombs falling out of the sky. Then we would rush to pick up the wounded and carry them away to the hospital. I stayed until the city fell. Then with my family I fled to Hong Kong.

Today she is in America, carrying on her work for the refugees and wounded of China as a member of the Chinese Participating committee of the United Relief society.