ver to make any such request.

"He called me from Denver and wanted to know if I knew anybody in the Denver police department," Dolan said.

Sergeant Dolan said he was opposed to Christopher four years ago but "I'm staying out of this one."

REWORDED

Call said the executive committee carefully reworded the Brandhove resolution to place greater emphasis on their principles and less upon official personalities.

"This reworded resolution was made because the society sincerely appreciated the honest police administration in San Francisco in contrast to that in many cities where homosexuals are blackmailed by the police," said Call.

Members of the Mattachine Society executive committee who heard Brandhove urge acceptance of the resolution included Call, Carl B. Harding, Henry Foster Jr. and Donald Lucas.

HE STARTED IT Call, Lucas and Foster yesterday gave statements to police saying that Brandhove had, in fact, initiated the idea of the controversial resolution.

Brandhove openly boasted yesterday that he is a Wolden supporter but denied he has ever received any pay from the Wolden camp.

He acted as a host at the opening of the Democrats for Wolden campaign headquarters at 47 Kearny street 28

early last May, he said.

Also, he said, he has talked on behalf of Wolden to all his friends.

WOLDEN AIDE Brandhove said his attorney is Ralph Taylor, who also happens to be Wolden's campaign treasurer.

Taylor, Brandhove said, was given the copies of the Mattachine Society resolution which Brandhove received from Denver.

"I told him to make sure it's used," Brandhove said.

Taylor had gone hunting yesterday and could not be reached for comment.

Brandhove said his survey of sex deviates has been financed by himself from his savings and his small disability pension.

Brandhove also said that he paid from his own pocket for the trip to Denver for the Mattachine convention.

Harry Lerner, Wolden's campaign manager, said of Brandhove:

"He was never hired by me to do anything. He was never paid a nickel so far as I was concerned."

Wolden himself could not be reached for comment.

LAST SPRING

Acting Police Chief Al Nelder, who is investigating the Wolden charges, said Brandhove told police last spring that he was associated with the Wolden campaign.

Brandhove's automobile has been plastered with Wolden stickers.

Attorney Emmet Hagerty, chairman of the Democrats

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for Wolden, said Brandhove volunteered for a job but was turned down.

Brandhove's police record includes at least eight arrests since 1930, when he was picked up in Jersey City, N. J., on a charge of sodomy.

In 1946, he received a sixmonths suspended sentence for being drunk in a public place.

Brandhove is known to the police and the underworld as an unreliable stool pigeon.

He was most recently in the news in the extortion trial in 1953 of gossip magazine publisher Jimmie Tarantino and bar owner Rudy Eichelbaum.

TARANTINO

Brandhove, who worked as a salesman for Tarantino, then became a stool pigeon against Tarantino for the police.

Then, he gave Tarantino an affidavit repudiating the things he had told the police. Then, he switched again and repudiated the pro-Tarantino affidavit.

Back in 1948, Brandhove popped into the news in connection with a smear at tempt against Congressman William Mailliard.

At that time an affidavit was circulated in which Brandhove admitted being an ex-Communist and claimedwithout success-that Mailliard tried to get him to run against Mailliard's opponent, Franck Havenner, and smear Havenner as a radical.

TENNEY COMMITTEE Brandhove appeared before the old State Un-Ameri-

can Activities Committee headed by Senator Jack Tenney and named a number of people as Reds.

Later, Brandhove became anti-Tenney and charged the committee used him to smear Havenner when Havenner was running against former Mayor Robinson.

Brandhove refused to answer questions before the Tenney committee at this point and was arrested for contempt.

Wolden Sued for Slander

Assessor Russell Wolden

was slapped with a $1,103,500 slander suit yesterday by the Mattachine Society, which said he called it an organization of "sex deviates."

The Society, whose local headquarters are at 693 Mission street, said it was mentioned on radio and in the press by Wolden during one of his campaign speeches.

The suit said Wolden "wrongfully and maliciously ... declared (the Society) was organized homosexuals and exposed teen-agers to contact with homosexuals."

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Wolden's remarks were made Wednesday in a radio attack on Mayor George Christopher, his opponent in the race for Mayor.

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