May 3, 1975

State Dept, noting that 30,000 more Vietnamese refugees aboard 26 S Vietnamese naval vessels have been discovered and escorted to safety by US ships in S China Sea, says Pres Ford intends to authorize admission of 123,000 refugees, rather than 84,000 to US for resettlement; dept spokesman Robert Funseth, describing Adm's plight in funding refugee aid program, says $98-million has been reallocated from Indochina Reconstruction Fund and $5-million under '62 Refugee and Migration Act; aide describes Ford as 'dejected' by defeat of $327-million authorization bill; Cong members reptdly are in antagonistic mood over aiding refugees because of large volumes of constituent mail they are receiving opposed to aid; White House spokesman says Adm is considering asking Cong to change original bill by eliminating clauses authorizing Ford to use combat troops to effect Amer evacuation, in light of fact that evacuation has been successfully completed; Funseth's breakdown of current refugee and evacuee status, made during State Dept briefing, listed; gives current total of Vietnamese refugees, in various stages of evacuation, at 110,000; official at S Vietnamese Embassy (Washington) disputes estimate; says Embassy has registered about 100,000 S Vietnamese as temporary residents in US and estimates that there are 10,000 more unregistered residents (M)

Bishop John M Allin, Presiding Bishop of PE Ch, is cited for contempt of ct for failure to appear despite subpoena at ecclesiastical trial of Rev William Wendt; Wendt is charged with disobeying his own Bishop, Right Rev William F Creighton, by allowing woman priest to celebrate communion at his ch; ct citation against Allin carries no sanctions; he could be charged with violating canonical requirement for Episcopalians to testify when duly subpoenaed; Wendt atty William Stringfellow comments; Allin por (M)

Adm officials say Ford has every intention to meet with Rabin, probably during wk of June 8; say Ford's decision to meet Pres Sadat first was deliberate sign of Washington's recent coolness toward Israel and its appreciation of Egypt following breakdown in Mar of Kissinger's peace efforts (S)

3,000 S Vietnamese workert reptdly teize labor hq in Saigon; Saigon radio says RC priest Rev Phan Khac Tuong called on all workers to apply for membership in new revolutionary labor orgn, May Day worker's' meeting; all Vietnamese Confed of Trade Unions members are to rept to hq within 24 hrs; whereabouts of confed leader Tran Quoc Buu, who had been branded as traitor, are unknown; number of organized workers, which numbered 500,000 in total population of 19-million, dropped to 300,000 during Thieu's presidency; dispatches by Western newsmen in Saigon continue to be unavailable; whereabouts of Gen Duong Van Minh are unknown; broadcast recalls alleged comments by Minh when revolutionary forces seized Presidential Palace; Vietcong delegation members in Paris say word 'provisional' in official Vietcong orgn name, Provisional Revolutionary Govt, will remain; illus of Communist tanks allegedly moving into grounds of Saigon Presidential Palace (M)

3-man arbitration panel rejects effort of PBA to break pay parity of police officers with firemen and to increase further existing 10% differential above sanitationmen; panel recommends instead that city's 23,000 police officers be given same 8% increase for fiscal '74-75 as that negotiated last summer by firemen and sanitationmen, and same 6% increase for 2d yr, beginning July 1; panel's recommendations are binding unless modified by Collective Bargaining Bd on appeal; PBA head Ken McFeeley expresses disappointment at ruling; Mayor Beame lauds decision; illus (M)