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28 (Punch Card) WAR DEPARTMENT-TOBACCO RATION CARD Expires 29 OCTOBER, 1945 M 1st Lt. Octavia Bridgewater Army Serial No. N-737998 Octavia M. Bridgewater ISSUED BY HENRY ROSS CAPTAIN A.C. STATION TAAF, Tuskegee, Ala. 29 RANK 449402 E Aviation this war is going to play a large part in Captain Charles B. Hall ... wearing his Dis Negro to down a Nazi plane in this war... missions... declared in an interview in Pitts week. "And he will be [[?]] the merits of his per [[?]] not his color!" the flier Hall, who has been mak appearances throughout and East in behalf of drives and other pa uses ever since he return the Italian fighting on on Day this year, has just ssigned again to the Tus Army Air Field, where he start. He hopes the assign temporary, however, for anxious to get back into before it is over. figure I can do more good there slugging it out with than I can here," said the nutive brown fighter who only five feet seven and inches in his stocking feet. as he will correct you, five feet seven inches and five-eights -LOR NO MATTER PILOTS Over There," the captain con- ed, "it doesn't make any difference whether a man is from Minnesota or Mississippi, black, ... or grizzly gray. It is the ... flies that coutns. I have ... the wing for white pilots .. have flown mine, and the ... ing we wanted to know was the protection was there. A Georgia pilot is just as for our cover as he is for theories get blasted out mind in the first burst cordial than the pro- relationship between Negro pilots had been between the citi- [Amer?]ica and Italy and [Negro?] pilots, Captain est in food and made available the men are by the keep them- [selves?] the ex- was new ed, "but fas- [Image] Caption: Capt. Charles B. Hall Serve 800 Tons of Food Daily -ARTERS, ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS 3264th Quar- Conduct Dr- The Pittsburgh Courier's Public Conduct campaign, momentum daily, is being end throughout the Nation by ed- ors, the clergy and civic lea[ders?] who see in the program one the surest ways to ease the ser- racial tensions now existing. During the pas week, ar- those outstanding leaders who endorsed the program were: F. Martinez, supervisor of schools for Missouri, dr. S. Mosby, associate dean St Methodist church, San Anton Texas; Rev. D. D. Felder, D.- Leading Methodist minister South Carolina; Mrs/ Lucy Har- Smith, Lexington, Ky., President the Kentucky Negro Education association; Dr. D. V. Jemison, Sel- ma, Ala. president of the National Baptist Convention, Jr., Wilberforce, Ohio, presiding bishop of the Thirteenth Episcopal district of the AME church, comprising Kentucky and Tennessee; Dr. J. E. W. Bowen, New Orleans, editor of the Central Christian Advocate, official organ of Methodist Central Jurisdiction, and the New Orleans Ar- Council of the Methodist Church through its secretary, Rev. K. McMillan, Forth Worth, Texas, and the associate dean, Rev. Robert Mosby, San Antonio, Texas. Negroes Form Great Market CHICAGO--America's 13,000 Negroes offer one of the grea[t?] post-war retail markets in world, states David J. Sulli[van?] leading authority of colored ness, in the September issu- Negro Digest, published here. "Today's Negro Market ha- gross income, in 1942 of $7,000 000, of which nearly 42 per was spent in consumer's goods services," declares Sullivan. HAVE BEAUTIFUL HAIR [Image]