Names, Names, Names

In California, where anything can happen, Orson Welles--who has impersonated William Randolph Hearst, campaigned with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and sawed his wife in half--thought of running for the U.S. Senate.

There were other big-name possibilities for the Democratic ticket. An early effort to get Jimmy Roosevelt to run for Governor failed, but Jimmy would keep his hand in as a member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee. Colonel Evans Carlson, of raider fame, had an early boom for the Senate, and Democrats were trying to persuade General Joseph Stilwell to run for something. Will Rogers Jr., back from the war and not so sure that he wants his House seat again, thought of trying to unseat State Senator Jack Tenney, head of California's "Little Dies Committee."

All this activity was an effort on the part of Democrats to oust Republican Governor Earl Warren and his protege in the Senate, young Bill Knowland. While Senator Knowland seemed vulnerable if hit sufficiently hard, no Democrat in his right mind would yet predict shrewd, able Governor Warren's defeat.

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