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(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- 

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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
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