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Segro Woman Frays for Peace Prior to March Washington-(UPD-Soon after sunrise Wednesday Mrs. Aquilla Bateman, a 74-year-old Negro from Washington, limped on her bad leg to the foot of the Lincoln memorial, bowed her head and asked a small favor of the Lord. She prayed for peace. Not peace among nations and not peace for evermore. She just wanted peace for this one day and in this one city. "Oh Lord, be with us to day and keep us in the hol low of your hand," she said. "May we love each other. May we get together. I pray that nobody will do anything personally bad to anybody else in Washington today." Mrs. Bateman, a deaconess In the Baptist church, said she was the first marcher to appear at the Lincoln Me morial grounds. She wanted a front row position and she decided to put into words the stark fear that had haunted the nights and days of inte gration leaders, federal offi cials and the Washington po lice department. It was the fear that Wednesday's massive march to the nation's capital would wind up in a bloody shambles. All the ingredients were there. Two hundred thousand persons were in a highly emotional stale. Many had gone without sleep. The sun was hot, .it was difficult to get a drink ol water or a sandwich. And, lurking on the fringes of the march, were people and organizations who did did not want the demonstra tion to be peaceful and order ly. They knew and so did the leaders of the march that a sudden burst of tem per could be a spark that would ignite a bonfire that could become a holocaust. The integration leaders took the grim gamble that a riot could set back their cause 10 years and perhaps doom it. The fear ran like a fever through the streets from the time the marchers massed at the Washington Monument. Then two wide, sluggish riv ers of humanity began mov ing from the monument to the Lincoln Memorial. There was sweat, toil and tears. The sweat of thou sands of persons carrying heavy placards and shuffling along under an August sun. The toil of police and the marchers' own marshals fighting to get them to a cer tain place at a certain time in the face 06 an inexorable srhprinle. The tears of chil dren suddenly separated from their parents. Toil, sweat and tears yes. But no blood. The program began. White voices and black voices were lifted in song. Catholic voices, Jewish voices, white voices and black voices uttered pray ers and made speeches. At 4:28 p.m. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays pronounced the benedic tion and a soft amen rustled along the light breeze. The crowd began to move out to buses, chartered planes, special trains, automobiles. The buses raced their motors, thA nlanps rpvvpH their nro- pollors, the train conductors called all aboard and the auto mobiles fanned out of Wash ington traffic onto the high ways to Texas, California, New York, Chicago. The brooding statue of Abraham Lincoln looked out across the debris of discarded newspapers, torn placards, empty sandwich bags, trodden grass. The roar of internal combustion engines filled the air. Rut in the midst of noise. disorder and debris, one fact remained. Mrs. Bateman's prayer had been heeded and answered. Foreign Briefs REBELS TO CONTINUE GUERRILLA ACTION Jakarta, Indonesia - H'l'l1 - A spokesman for Brunei Rebel Leader Sheikh A. Mohar Azahari said here yester day rebel leaders still are determined to have an inde pendent state and will continue guerrilla action "to stamp out Malaysian neo-colonialism." Everything is Short on sleeves at Drews... 1 ' m 1 v x Jtii 1 t 11 1 Jl J I Short Sleeve Columbia Knit Sweaters Short Sleeve Pendleton Shirts Short Sleeve Holbrook, Arrow, Hartog and Campus Shirts Short Sleeve Turtle Neck Shirts Some men prefer ties . . . some don't. This new short-sleeve, high-button cardigan wins the "most likely to succeed" vote from both . . . 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Miller gave his permission tor the cuts in a telephone call from his home in California. FIRM LIFTS NEGRO BAN Bristol, England - HPli - The Bristol Omnibus Co. to day officially lifted a ban preventing Negroes from work ing on urban buses. Discussions between the company and the Transport Workers Union which led to lifting of the color bar began .last April when a Jamaican was turned down on his ap plication to be trained as a conductor. INTERPOL ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT Helsinki. Finland - 'liPH - The International Police Or ganization (Interpol) ended its 32nd general assembly yes terday by electing Finnish Police Chief Fjalar Jarva, S3, its new president. He will serve the last year of the four-year term of Sir Richard Jackson of Scotland Yard, who is retiring. Rails Pace Advance In Stock Market; Tobacco, Drugs Up Castro Wants New U.S. Relations Madrid - IUPII - Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro hopes to resume diplomatic relations with the United States, ac cording to one of the Ameri can youths who defied a State Department ban to visit Cuba. Fifty-four of the original 59 youths were scheduled to fly back to New York today and face government sanc tions for their unauthorized trip. Three other students re mained in Cuba temporarily, one returned to the United States Monday and one drowned in a swimming acci dent during the eight - week tour, for which the Cubans paid all expenses. Robert Kaffke, a San Fran cisco State college student said Wednesday "Castro would like to resume diplo matic relations with the U.S. He told me so." Kaffke, one of 26 students in the group from the San Francisco area, said he was favorably impressed by the guided tour of Cuba. "I'm for socialism in the Cuban sense," he said. He added that he was not a mem ber of any political group. "Castro is not attempting to spread the Cuban revolu tion," Kaffke said. Possible Penalties Clinton Jencks, 19, and his wife Dee, 18, also students at San Francisco State, said they were worried about pos sible penalties arising from the visit. "But the trip was worth it," Jencks said. "Now I know the truth about Cuba. The people are happy there." He denied earlier state ments auriouiea 10 mm mai the Cubans had never been worse off. He said he had been misunderstood. Mrs. Jencks said represen tatives of the U.S. embassies in London, Amsterdam and Prague warned the group Regional Edition Page 2A MEDFORDsJlgTRIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1963 Everybody's Favorite! PL ICE CREAMS) when it was en route to Cuba that its members faced pos sible five years' imprison ment and $5,000 fines for go ing to Cuba, in addition to having their passports taken away. mippf ogscats New York -IUPII-Rails con tinued to pace another ad vance in stock prices today. Most other groups followed close behind the rails in their advance. Tobaccos and drugs were particularly pro minent. American Home Products tacked on more than 3 in the latter group. Chemicals, steels, motors, metals, electronics, oils, air lines, finance shares, and en tertainments all were higher. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York - IUPII - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 725.07, up 5.19; 20 railroads 176.63. up 3.12; IS utilities 143.67. up 0.65, and 65 stocks 261.52, up 2.39. Sales Wednesday were about 5.12 million shares compared with 4.48 million shares Tuesday. Wednesday g prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical Sfii VFW Delegates to Nominate Officers From Floor Today Seattle Delegates to the 64th annual convention of the Velcrans of Foreign Wars were to nominate new officers today, following a floor fight over the number of nominees for one office. . The floor fight came on a proposal to change the by-laws of the organization to require no less than two nominees for the office of junior vice cominniirler - in-chief Usually there is only one. Up the Ladder The junior vicc-commandcr-in-chicf is the number three man in the VFW. It has been customary for the holder of that position to proceed auto matically up the ladder to the position of commander-in- chief. Alum Co Am American Air Lines American Can American Motors AT&T American tobacco Anaconda Copper Armco American standard Bendix Corp Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp. 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