The suggestive parentheses are the publication's.

Here From L.A.

In its brochure, Mattachine Society Today, the organization makes this rather dubious and diffident statement:

"The Society is NOT a homosexual organization, but is one interested in the Homosexual problem. Non-homosexuals DO belong to it." (The caps are the Review's.)

This is the organization that has arrived in San Francisco's midst from Los Angeles to enjoy the "enlightened" Mattachine's own word for it — policy of the Christopher administra-

tion.

(In their next week's editions the San Francisco Progress newspapers will reveal how San Francisco was selected to host next year's Mattachine convention.)

From the NEWS-CALL-BULLETIN, Thursday afternoon following:

'Mystery Man'Seen

In 'Smear'

By YANCEY SMITH News-Call Bulletin Staff Writer

The shadowy figure of William P. Brandhove, a minor San Francisco politi cian, emergency today as the man behind a smear attack on Mayor Christopher.

The News Call Bulletin learned that Brandhove was the man who won adoption of a pro-Christopher resolu tion at a recent convention of the Mattachine Society, a small group dedicated to the problem of homosexuality.

This resolution was pub lished yesterday in a chain of neighborhood newspapers supporting Assessor Russell

L. Wolden's campaign for mayor.

IT WAS USED as the springboard for an allout smear campaign claiming that the Christopher administration had been been tolerant of “organizing homosexuals" permitting them to flourish in San Francisco. Wolden repeated the charges in a radio speech here last night.

Brandhove was involved in Congressman William Mailliard's hot 1948 fight against Frank E. Havenner.

BRANDHOVE circulated "affidavit." claiming Mailliard had engaged him to smear Havenner.

The following year he figured in a like furor in Hav enner's campaign for mayor against Elmer E. Robinson, and more recently in the James Tarantino-Rudy Eichenbaum blackmail conspir acy case.

Brandhove, a onetime mattachine REVIEW

Tarantino employe, at one

point in the involved case signed an affidavit retracting previous grand jury testimony given against the defendants.

HE ALSO was involved in waterfront union affairs in the '40s as a purported "rank and file" leader in the ILWU, and he was involved in a dispute with the Tenney state un-American activities committee.

The committee once ordered Brandhove jailed for contempt.

Officials of the Mattachine Society here said they feel they may have been "used" for political purposes and intend to interrogate Brandhove.

Donald Stewart Lucas, national secretary of the society, said Brandhove joined the organization's local chapter in August only a few weeks before the Labor Day weekend convention in Denver.

LUCAS SAID that Brandhove presented the resolu tion at a meeting of the San Francisco group before the convention and asked them to sponsor it.

"We thought it was just an innocent expression in favor of tolerance in San Francisco," Lucas said. "We had no idea that it was intended or might be used for any political purpose."

Harold Call, a member of the society, said he personally submitted the resolu

tion was presented by Brandhove.

The local chapter was surprised when a notarized copy of the resolution appeared in the neighborhood newspapers and investigated.

They found that Brandhove had telephoned Mrs. Darlene Armbeck, a Denver notary who had been a stenographer at the convention, asking her to send him three notarized copies, care of the Count Down Magazine, San Francisco.

Lucas said that yesterday, when queried about the story, insisting he didn't know anything about it.

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Another delegate, Henry Foster Jr., said he noticed Brandhove was "spending money as if it was going out of style" in Denver.

Foster, expressing shock, added:

"I thought he was sincerely interested until all this 'came out.'

He said he definitely feels that the organization had been made a cat's paw in a political campaign.

BRANDHOVE himself was not immediately available to explain how Mayor Christopher's name came to be in the resolution.

He had been staying here at the Grand Hotel, Turk and Taylor sts., but checked out last night leaving no forwarding address.

Wolden himself said he had only a hazy recollection of the name Brandhove.