ord from the China coast - that Peking can no longer police the borders of Bed China. Viaciplin• in frontier area• - breaking down. Befugees, escaping - in droves. The main escape hatch - Hong lone. TodaJ, an entire company of ied Chinese soldiers - entered th• British Crown Colony, along with eo ■ e three thou1aad ci•ilians. The flood of refugee, from Meo Tse-tuna'• do ■ ain, so vast - that Bong Kong ie awa ■ ped. Go•ernor Sir Robert Black, having no place - to put th••• Bong long - already over-crowded - teeming. Sir Bobert, compelled to send many refugees - back acro11 th e border. The more fortunate ones, making their way by aea - to Formosa. The amount of malnutrition among the refugee• That the Red ~errillas in ~outh Viet Na■ - are getting help fro ■ Communist lorth Viet Nam, waa confirmed today by efense S ecretary Wc•a ■ ara, at a news conference in Saigon - juat before he left tor home. ■ cNamara haa been on a fact finding tour• of Southeast Asia. And one of the tacts be found•••• the source of ••n and araa for the Bed guerrill••• North Viet Na ■ - a& was suapected all along. liow does be feel - about th• defense of ~outb Wiet Ha ■? •Much encouraged• - aaid the ~•f•n•• Secretary. seems to prove that the stories ot near-ta•ln• in Red ~hina - are not exaggerated. That the Bed ••rrillas in bouth Viet la■ - are getting help fro ■ Coa■ uniat lorth Viet Na■,••• confirmed today by Defense Secretary Mc a■ ara, at a news conference in Saigon - juat before he left for home. acNaaara baa been on a fact findiag tour• ot Southeast Asia. And one of tbe tact, be found - ••• the source of ■ en and ar■ • for the ied auerrill••• iortb Viet ia■ - aa waa suapected all alona. liow doe, be feel - about the oefen•• of ioutb Viet la■ ? •Much encouraged• - aaid the ~efenae Secretary. But from Laos came reports of 1uerrilla victorie1; the Reds driYing forward - in defiance of the cease-tire with loyalist aoldier1, retreatin1 - across the Mekong RiYer into Thailand. All of which poses a dile ■■ a - tor Preaident Iennedy. tither to co ■ait A ■ erican troop•• iD hao•. Or el••• continue trying tor - a coalition goYern■e ■t. Neither alternative - ia palatable in Weshin1ton. But there doesn't ae•• to be - a third alternati••• IEPECTORS Laet ni g ht, we had the story of the Johnson tM1ly o ti iMU( ~ - -(,uJ,_ lo Philadelphia - who defected to Ruse1~ --re-detect•~• , America.- a ••k l•••r. Tonight/• I•.• a few more details. David Johnson, informing newsmen in Hew York - that he went to Rueeia in eearch of a g ood doctor. One of the Johnson boys needs special treatment - and hie parents had heard auch Red propaganda, about the superiority of the Soviet medical profeesion. waa /4 ~ ,•-klfu-f.' the propaganda true? "Definitely not !n ••u ■ A latl:tl Jett111an. Atltlft8 11 91■1 et tM t.1 plt ■l■ • aa la llll ■ ia I W IN* ■ V■II olla&i a " 2 AUIBRD Ships are paeting one another in the Med1terreanean tonight - carrying exiles both ways. Leaders of the Right Wing underground - on their way from Algeria to France.) ~xpelled by order of - the French High Comm1ss1oru. Going the other way - Algerian llgeria. EUROPE "";Ji. Five European nations~• · ba•lns • tt•1t ■hiiN ut domestic troubles: In Portugal, S alazar's police are cracking down on - Lisbon University. jrreiting a thousand students - tor ) anti-government activities. other In Spain, the ~ induetrie~ ~e strike of the minere - has spread to Franco government, compelled to otter - wage 1ncreaeee. In Prance, the railroad unions announce - a strike 111 week. 'Ital I■ - unless ..... employeee are granted higher wage1 I and fewer hours. In Austria, the worst strike - e1nce the war. A hundred and fifty thousand metal workers, downing tools~-~~ they get a six per cent wa g e hike. And in Britain, the threat of - the worst tie-up on the docks in almost forty years. The dan g er, eo imminent - "'11:t the British army ie on stand-by orders. Ready to move perishable g oode into London - if the dockere refuse. lor Cape CanaTeral, the big week of tie year - will begin May nineteenth, when Astronaut Scott Car p enter will be on his way. Delayed until then - becuaae of trouble in the control ayatea ot tb• apace c1p1ule. Alter the end of May, there could be co ■plicationa becauae of the ato ■ ic teat aerie• at ~hriat ■ aa laland. SpecificallJ - a bigb altitude exploaion that so ■• apace ■ en belieTe aay have an effect on th• Van Allen radiation belt - even prevea\ eny orbital flight, until the pRrticles of that radiation belt rea11e■ble. So Scott carpenter i1 getting so ■• of what John Glenn went through - the agony of delay. On a aor• optimistic note - a ainute ■ an rocket was fired today. The first aucceaa - in the laat five at Cape Canaverel. Thia one, a teat of a new rocket comaunication system. !n t be ••anti ■• todaJ - two aore ato ■ io exploaiona at X ■ as l1land - one uader water. fl,AIII There ia apeculatien about tho•• tour aurplua warplanes; sei1ed by cuatoaa agent ■ - in Newark,••• Jeraey; in Chica10. They were about to be - ablppe4 abroad. Where? So ■• say the Congo. Other• - Central America, to anti- . Caatro people. Twin-engine bo ■bera, for battlefield aapport - ot troopa on the ground. TEAPOO' DOME The furore surrounding Texae financier B i lly Sol Bates - ls reviving memories of the most famous scandal in American _____ .. II- ~ history. Let I Senator Tower o:t !fl;a•-- 11 Th1e Estes caae \ makes Teapot Dome look like a Sunday School picnic. 11 Remember - Teapot Dome? The financial shenanigans - of Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Administration. ' Fall lease~ the Teapot Dome 011 Reeervee - to Harry Sinclair. Later, he did the eame for E.L. Doheny - with the Elk Hill Reserve. The transactions, confidential - and secret, until the Secretary or the Interior began to tlaah his sudden wealth. Result - a Senate investigation. Fall, resigning - l then going to J The Supreme court, orderin g the govern111nt "71 to resume - control ot Teapot Dome. And. Se &e::g Un' tl IL!Lday. Have you heard about the earthquake that ahoot Mexico, all the way troa Acapulco to Mexico CltJ? Telephones, electricity and water mains - knocked out in the resort city on the Pacific. A fountain tippe4 over - into the ■ iddl• of the ■ ain boulevard. And one achool bad to be evacuated - when the wall• opened up. in Mexico Cit7 - atr••t• - tre ■bled. iaildin1• - collapsed.into the streets. Caaualtie1? know yet. TRAFFIC In Placerville, California, Harvey west has come up with a plan for - slowin g traff1~automat1cally. Harve'l- worried about - cars whizzing past hie door 1 '-"!F decided - to do somethin g about it. Th-.t'eomething" - •11, t••• rather simple • • • H bought two care, and painted them - to look like patrol care. He put cardboard figures, complete with badge and policernan•s cap - behinc! the wheel or each. "6en -.parked the / care - ... 'n Ma- front ~ ~ . · Result - drivers euddenly ueing their brliJ:;/~Driving carefully paet the homestead of - Harvey weet. D:licacoc1l11g 111:e hoax toe 1at1; + =-= tbl t1• ·thay tltp Oh ' " ' Ill 1p1n = "·• de • + I i,-•••161 "9,roi eare et Piaa•••J1lle, ee.11i:orn1 I, • - 7 • ■ = ..,_ - -- --- - PUB In Hartfield, England, the wife of a pubkeeper took one look and eaid - "See •ere, you 1 11 have to move out to the bar." The lady•a annoyance, caused by - a an in rough boot■ and turtle neck eweater. "Rather ecrurty", according to the patroneae or the establiehllfent. He irritated her by picking up hie pint ot bittere - and settling into one ot the clusler aeats inside. He looked like an outdoor man - but even eo, hi waen•t going to challenge the •nagereee or a Britl■h pub. Meekly, JII ~I aA he picked up his pint - and retreated to the bar. That•e t:he story circulating around the cloak r0011 - or the House or common2;} ~ t t d 1 w 1 who NII tl_..d • • - Ernest Marples, Minister of Traneport in Her Majesty•e g overnment. I 2.mag11• thats one ta11rtcen • ,e pertiic11l•rJ1 M\IPd. hay who gt-.ee the eebinet amber 1'he bum•.e 1u:::h. IAwre de.. yeu 11r.1ei,el!e 4lhe Ir huebandc aN'i' ..