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NEWS SECTION
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RIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1941

LEE YA CHING TO TAKE FUND FOR CHINA AID

Aviatrix Plans Flight To New York With Toledo Gifts.

$5,000,000 SOUGHT

Needs of Refugees Too Urgent to Allow Delay, She Says.

With her weather eye watching for the firsts signs in a snowy sky that would permit her to take-off in her Aeronca plane, Miss Lee Ya Ching, who was given a welcome on her Toledo visit in the interests of United China Relief, was preparing late this afternoon to start on her return flight to New York.

Carrying a sheaf of checks contributed to the United Relief Fund as a result of her appeal here, Miss Lee said that the needs of China's refugees are so urgent that a single day saved int he transmission of money and its conversion into food and medical supplies may result in the saving of hundred of addition lives.

Tells of Fight

At a dinner given by the Toledo Club for 200 members and guests last night, Miss Lee Ya Ching gave an account of her country's struggle against the invaders and its efforts to cope with the dislocation of 50,000,000 members of its population.

"The $5,000,000 sought by United China Relief to provide food, shelter and clothing for the refugees, anaesthetics for the wounded and medicines for the sick, is a small amount," Miss Lee said, "compared with the billions you are expending on defense and on lease-lend from which China also benefits.

"The attainment of this $5,000,000 from popular subscription is important, however, not only because it gives tangible representations of your sympathy but because $5,000,000 in China has a purchasing power in China equivalent to almost a billion dollars here." 

Only One Appeal

Through this organization a single appeal for a single contribution is all that is asked for China during this year. Ward M. Canaday is Toledo chairman of United China Relief. Gustavus Ohlinger, Frank H. Canaday and Mrs. Frank Stew art Lewis are co-chairmen. 

F. Dwight Haigh presided for the Toledo Club and Harold H. Hartley, managing editor of the Toledo Times, introduced Miss Lee.

A reception was given for Miss Lee by Toledo's Chinese community at the King Hong Low restaurant Jefferson Avenue, at 10:30 p. m. on the invitation of Charles Lewis, president of the local Chinese Relief Association.

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