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Y.W.C.A. members from many of the 65 countries in whlch' the or- ganization has branches gathered at an international dinner in Toronto recently. Margaret K0 was the Chinese representative. -

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Otiicials of the United Textile Workers in Trenton, Ont.. say may uncovered two microphones leading from their union hall to a polico station next door. They say, too, that the meeting was held in that room on "direction" of the police following a disturbance at the textile plant where the union workers are on strike. Next meeting. union sncn any. will be held out of town. Here. Reg Wanamaker and Mary Gray inspect the microphone discovered by accident bedore tho scheduled meeting had begun. .

NO H AMERIA

122,000 Communists, more than half of them in the U. 5.

SOUTH AMERICA

300,000 Communists, biggest colonv in Brazil

WESTERN EUROPE sf.

3,625,W0 Communists oi wholtl on estimated

3,500,000 are in Chino

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comm tats outside the -Iron Curtaia ins to wollcinformld U. 8. military sources. nu estimate Communist strength is recent. but all others are

womrotion. These indicate a seam. ooIumn't of nearly 0.000.000 cominunist party members. but military intelligence now says is too conservative and be! ill

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- Chairman of Greer Memorial Fund trustees, tario Educational association. They are 0. Mann.

Iianche Ilumerieli. presents fund's 1950 award. valued at s420, to research council members of On- Hamilton.

WALTER. REUTHEB PAUL MARTIN U.A.W. President Minister oi Health

The first union-negotiated pension plan in Canada. will go oezoro Ford Motor Co. employees at Windsor. Out, for approval. It provides for 855 a month payable at age 85 after 25 years' service. The company offer follows a joint company-employee conference with Hon. Paul Martin, federal minister of health and welfare. in which the minister indicated his belief there will be a national old age pension of 340 a month at age 70 with new means test within two years. This means that eventually a Ford worker will receive a pension oi! 395 a month at 70. Ford executives also revealed a new bonus plan for production workers, with bonuses to be based on total profits of the company. Walter Reuther. U.A.W. president, sat in at last-ditch negotiations in Windsor to avert a Ford strike. The assembly line was closed down to give employees a chance to attend a mass meeting at which the cpmpanyls oflfer will be presented.

Werner Schuek, one of the directors of the famed Mozart girls' choir of Dresden, is shown with the choir, while giving a concert in the west- ern sector of Berlin. Werner Nieblich, another director, reported that his wife was arrested by the Russians in Dresden last Sunday. Also, on the heels of the chairs arrival, 19 of the 21 singers in the group asked political sanctuary in the U. S. sector. Shortly thereafter, two of the girls disappeared and are believed to have been kidnapped by Soviet zone agents. The concert went on as scheduled. but under heavy police guard.. In a dramatic pre-concert dressing-room meeting. the choir membei-Lglgned a statement citing what they termed "persecution and oppression by the Communists in eastern Germany, and giving thereby their reasons for fleeing into the U.S. sector.

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Ialossed iron hospital after three weshs' illness, Mrs. James Foley at Toronto went (or ride with sister. Borrowed car shows. I9lnerssult-

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left, H. Dean. K. Chute. Toronto, and D. BMM

Blonde school girl, is Miss Win- nipeg of 1950. She was crowned before a crowd orl'4.300 attending frtth annual jamboree staged by Greater Winnipegls Associated Community clubs.

cor Anvrsna. - Former Sen. '

John Sherman Cooper. Ken- tucky Republican. was named by Secretary of State Dean Acheson as .his adviser at the torthcoming Big Three Foreign Ministers Conierenco in London.

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solo from Buifalo to Detroit, crashed into Lake Huron. near, Port Huron. Mich. His body wal

Kermit Kjorkmsn. flying

found floatin near the single-

engine plane which was fsinlllsr to many Ontario airports. Living in Toronto. he conducted most of hl.s business as consulting engineer by air.

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"I can't remember what hap- pened." Mrs. Foley sold. "The ear turned over ond over jlho o revolv- hl drum." Both D-s. Foley and a? sister. Theresa Pearce. wars on to the Wellesley hoapihl. son

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Seven children of naval officers were christened from ship's bell at H.M.C.S. Star. Hamilton. Ont. With Rev. Callum Thompson are Mrs. H. Tilbury, Mrs. C. A

BEIILIN REDS GET READY s-on 'MAYTIME' -Members of Berlin's Frei Deutsche Jugond, Corn- naunlst youth organization. work on s,sts.dlIun sist- ed to seat 10,000 persons for o giant May parade and demonstration in the Soviet assist at the Gor-

Oratorical champion is Jim Southcott. 14-year- oid student at Oil City. 0nt.. rural public school, shown with trophy and books he won in competition at the O.E.A. convention. Son of Rev. E. E. South- &haalsssio.en1er.Usiisd .Chu:I:hmini.stry,Tha

Mrs. J. Burman. Mrs. J. Parker, Mrs. Wilson.

Thomason. D. Sheppard, Mrs. S. Ross. Mraxlt. x

man capital. Hundreds of members of the soviel youth group have been brought to Berlin to help get ready for the May demonstrations, during whlclg Reds have threatened to "take over" Berlin's waste ern sectors. i

grade V111 student of I rural school near Sarnia edged out six other finalists in the 26th provincial speaking finals sponsored by the Ontario Educational association. Adjudicating was by executive mem- bers at the Qntsrlo Teachers tederation.