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NEWS RELEASE FROM:
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UNITED CHINA RELIEF
1790 BORADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y.
(IF YOU REQUIRE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CALL THE NEWS DEST AT CIRCLE 5-4100)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LEE YA CHING, CHINA'S FIRST AVIATRIX NOW FLYING "AMBASSADOR" OF GOOD WILL.

As a member of the Chinese Participation Committee of United China Relief, Miss Lee Ya Ching has flown over 50,000 miles in the United States and Canada within the last year and a half, bringing with her a fresh picture of China and its current needs. 

Ya Ching fostered an early interest in aviation when as a tot on her grand-mother's knee she heard mythical tales of fairies who flew from tree and rooftops to rescue the destitute. 

Her mother died when she was four and a half years old and her father, a prominent industrialist, educated his only child the way the Chinese did their boys. She was taught horseback riding, shadow boxing and fencing, which included the use of knives, sabers and spears. These manly arts she learned when she was 13 and, though a lady, she can probably still swing a man upper cut. 

Lee Ya Ching was 16 years old when she went to England and studied private school there for two years. She traveled in Italy, France, Switzerland and Russia and was in China when the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931. 

Her first flying lesson was in a shaky Moth bi-plane over the Swiss Alps and a few months later she became the first women of any nationality to receive a pilot license in Geneva. 

Ya Ching took advanced training at the Boeing School of Aeronautics in California and it was while she was on a training flight that she earned membership in the Caterpillar Club. Her instructor started a barrel roll, Ya Ching fell out and landed plop into San Francisco Bay.