California Barrage

Perhaps the closest race of all would be for Senator from California. The Democrats were acting as if the unseating of 38-year-old Republican William F. Knowland was the most important thing they had to do. To California went two of Harry Truman's Cabinet--Clinton Anderson and Cap Krug--and his ever-loyal Senator Alben Barkley. And Henry Wallace went too. They said their pieces for Will Rogers Jr. and other Democrats--while Will carefully ducked having his picture taken with Henry Wallace.

Then the Republicans really got to work. Governor Earl Warren, sure of re-election and silent so far in the campaign, found his voice. He took aim at Henry Wallace as "a spearhead" of an attack in California "by leftist organizations that are attuned to the Communist movement." Wallace, said the Governor, "is no more qualified to tell Californians how to vote than a man who has broken up his own home is qualified to tell his neighbors how they should regulate their family affairs."

As the verbal barrage thickened, the betting odds stuck close to even money.

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