Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-24
sol Chinese Experts
Arrive Here 10 Study
American Engineering

A party of COL Chinese graduate
engineers with an average of five
Year, experience in their professions
arrived In Washington yesterday to
start year OF special training which
will enable them to return home and
step up China's war effort.
Every one of them has experienced
bombing by Jap planes, and many
have worked long hours attempting
to repair or restore railroads, fac
tories or other damaged installations.
They were registered at George
town University, where more than
half Of them will be quartered. The
rest will have quarters at Uline's
Arena.
Will BE Dispersed.
After 4 month or more of orienta-
ton and special studies similar to
. college seminar at Georgetown
University. they will disperse over
the United States for actual training
work with railroads, airlines, on
farms, In irrigation districts, with
highway construction crews, in
hydroelectric stations, and with
giant manufacturing companies.
The project, which will see an
additional 400 brought here shortly
is in charge of the Foreign Eco
nomic Administration. American
tndustrialists, who became inter-
ested, set up the Federal Training
Administration, Inc, a nonprofit
corporation financed by the indus
trialists, to handle details under
direction of Elliot S. Hanson, presi-
dent. In turn, that group retained
Prof. Paul B. Eaton, head of the
mechanical engineering department
OF Lafayette College. Easton, Pa, to
head the schooling at Georgetown.
Prof. Eaton has been to China three
times In two wars to aid the gov
eminent of that country in its war
efforts.
The entire project had its incep-
ton, the FEA and Prof Eaton said,
through the Chinese War Produc-
ton Board set up by Donald Nelson.
Chinese Girls to Help.
The only two girls among the
Chinese trainees are determined to
do as good a Job as the men.
They are Miss Hsu Jui-chen, 26,
who said her Christian name is
Caroline, and Miss WI Chih-hwa,
who has adopted the name of Jane.
They are very serious about their
mission and their wish to be credit,
both to their sex and their govern
ment.
Speaking English learned in
Chinese schools, they explained that
Miss Hsu is here to study air trafnc
management, and Miss WI, soil i'm
provement methods-both fields in
which relatively few Chinese women
are engaged. Miss Hsu has been
working with the Chinese National
Aviation Corp. and Miss WI has
been teaching agricultural chemistry
ut National Central University.
Typical of the group of men
were three of the engineer trainees.
One Is Liu Chen, originally OF
Sikiank Province. He is a railway
engineer, graduate Of Tansghan
University, which was once in
Sikiank Province but now, like most
of the important Chinese educa-
tional institutions, moved to
Chunking in the face of Japanese
occupation. He has had 10 years
In practice of his profession.
Rail Bridge Engineer.
Chen Shao-fan. graduate of Gen.
trail University Of China, when 1t
was At Marking, is railway bridge
engineer, with five years of expert
ence. Shan Pin Ching, Of Kiangsu
Province, after graduation from
Nanyang University, had IS years
Of work as q mechanical engineer,
maintaining and building railway
equipment.
The entire party flew "over the
hump" from China to India, and
came by boat through the Red
Sea. Mediterranean Sea, and At
lantic, landing at Norfolk, Va, Fri
day. hey came to Washington
by SPECIAL train.