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Enterprise and
ESTABLISHED 1822 

Vermonter
VERGENNES, VERMONT, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1942

$1.50 PER YEAR
$2.00 OUTSIDE VERMONT 

Lee Ya-Ching, China's First Woman Aviatrix, to Speak in City Tonight 

FAMOUS CHINESE AVIATRIX ON TOUR FOR CHINA 
[[image of Lee Ya-Ching]]
Speaks in Vergennes tonight

Will Appear Under Sponsorship of Legion, Rotary, D.A.R., Churches to Aid China Relief Fund

Only Chinese Woman Member of "Caterpillar Club" 

Lee Ya-Ching, China's First Lady of the Air, now making "appeal flights" throughout the United States for the new $7,000,000 United China Relief campaign to raise funds for the war stricken areas of China and bring relief to the many million Chinese refugees and war orphans caught in the turmoil of the Far Eastern conflict, will speak in the Vergennes High School Gymnasium on Friday evening of this week, Apr. 24, under the sponsorship of the Vergennes Post of the American Legion, Rotary Club of Vergennes, Seth Warner Chapter, D.A.R. and the various churches. A collection will be taken to aid this splendid work..

During last year's campaign Lee Ya-Ching flew more than 45,500 miles throughout the United States to many of the principal cities active in the campaign, and her appearances were instrumental in helping United China Relief raise more than $3,000,000 for relief work, rehabilitation and economic reconstruction in war-torn China.

Lee Ya-Ching is the only Chinese woman member of the famous "Caterpillar Club," an organization of pilots whose lives have been saved by parachutes. She won her membership in 1935 when she fell from her stunt plane into San Francisco Bay 

Miss Lee learned to fly in Geneva, Switzerland in 1933 and took her advanced flight training at the Boeing School in Oakland, Calif. From there she returned to China and served as a flying instructor at China's large flying school the Shanghai Municipal Air School. Today, after many hours in the air, she is an expert air navigator with transport training.

Among her numerous flights last year for United China Relief, Miss Lee took her small plane to Toronto Canada, and was presented with a trophy from the Chinese Patriotic Federation of Ontario for leading a mass flight to launch a Canadian medical campaign for China.

Miss Lee has appeared at numerous meetings for China and has spoken for her country many times since she returned to this country in 1938.