Chung Corps

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Until the earthquake shook other thoughts from their minds, biggest news of the week to California's unemployed doctors & aviators was Dr. Chung's combined Air & Medical Corps. It was big news to Nanking and Peiping too, where the Corps was expected to bring valuable flyers and doctors to oppose Japan and even more valuable publicity to buck up the troops.

Beneath the shirt & vest of Dr. Chung there beats no manly heart. Dr. Margaret Jessie Chung ("Margie" to hundreds of cinemactors and aviators) was born in Santa Barbara and obtained her M. D. from the University of Southern California in 1916. Practicing first in Los Angeles, later in San Francisco, she acquired great skill in treating the plaints current in the cinema and the U. S. Navy. She still has a practice in Hollywood, makes frequent trips by plane from San Francisco where she keeps an elaborate office in the middle of Chinatown. Greta Garbo and Anna May Wong are among Margie Chung's best friends.

Naval aviators too hold her in high regard. One whole room of Dr. Chung's suite is lined with photos of flyers, bits of wreckage. It is a tradition in California Navy yards to send to Margie Chung the insignia from the wings of wrecked Navy planes. Recently the troubles of her father's country began to prey on her mind. Last week she announced that the first units of the Chung Air & Medical Corps would sail for the front within a month.