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Lee Ya-Ching, "China's First Lady of the Air," will speak on the Bronx AWVS broadcast at 4.45 tomorrow over WBNX. Introduced by Mrs. Alexander Haring, director of the program, she will tell how "Chinese Women Meet the War."

Born of wealth parents, Miss Lee was educated in China and in England. Later she traveled in Italy, France, Switzerland and Russia. She first studied flying in Switzerland, and was the first woman of any nationality to receive a pilot license in Geneva. She took advanced training at the Boeing School of Aeronautics in California.

Returning to China she found officials skeptical about granting her a pilot license, for she was the first girl applicant they had encountered. But her skill soon won them over, and she was honored with a government license. She piloted a government plane to interest young Chinese in aviation, and was appointed flying instructor at the Shanghai Municipal Air School. Later she became a copilot of China's Southwestern Airline.

In 1938 Miss Lee returned to America to begin her goodwill flights in behalf of her countrymen, first under the auspices of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China and later for the United China Relief.