February 26, 1974

HY KAHANER is President of the House of Kahaner Div. of WILLCOX & GIBBS (WG‐AHEXP)—ADVT.

As service‐station operators around the country complained of dwindling gasoline supplies and awaited deliveries of new Federal allocations, New York became today the sixth state to institute a mandatory system of gasoline allocation.

Washington Post repts Pres Nixon received $125,000 in secret cash contributions to his re-election campaign from several US Ambs; Nixon personal atty Herbert W Kalmbach has pleaded guilty to offering an Amb a better assignment in return for $100,000 contribution to Cong campaign com; Pres Nixon says in Feb 25 news conf that ambassadorships are based on qualifications and not on contributions (M)

Winthrop W. Aldrich, former board chairman of the Chase National Bank and Ambassador to Britain under President Eisenhower, died yesterday at 88. Page 40.

sources say Watergate prosecution force has begun inquiry into Pres NIoxn's handling of mil spying on White House in '71; investigators are known to be curious about reapptmt of Adm Thomas H Moorer as Joint Cs/S Chmn in mid-'72 after Pres Nixon and then-Natl Security Council head H A Kissinger had become aware of spying (L)