Evening star., 1934-10-05
30 WOMEN SEEK
|. ELECTION HONORS
"a Candidates for House
and One for Senate in
Survey List.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
More than so woman candidates
are figuring in the races for national
and high State offices to be filled in
next months elections, survey
showed today.
Available reports Of nominees in
the various States listed "a woman
candidates for tie House, for the
Senate, 3 for governorships and %
for important State posts, including
secretaryships of State and superin-
tendencies of public instruction.
Six of the sever woman members
of the present House have been re-
nominated. One, Mrs. Marian W..
Clarke, Republican, Of New York, is
retiring voluntarily.
The woman candidate for the Sem
ate thus far reported is Rebecca
Grecht, a New Jersey Communist
Mrs. Hattie w. Caraway, Arkansas
Democrat, lone woman Senator. still
has four years of her present term
in that branch. She was appointed
to fill the vacancy created by the
death Of her husband and was elected
in 1882.
Renominated in House.
Woman House members renom-
mated are Mrs. Isabella Greenway Of
Arizona, Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New
Jersey, Mrs. Kathryn OLoughlin NC
Carthy Of Kansas and Mrs. Virginia
Jenckes of Indiana, Democrats; Mrs
Florence P. Kahn of California and
Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers Of Massa-
chusetts, Republicans.
New York, which has provided a
woman House member for the last six
years, has two running for Congress
at large this Fall Mrs Caroline ODay
of Rye was nominated by the Demo-
cratic State Convention, and Miss
Natalie F. Couch Of Nyack, a law
yer, was selected by the Republicans
Miss O'Day is a friend of the Presi-
dents family.
There are two at-large House seats
from New York. Two men, one Re-
publican and one Democrat, also are
49, eiAc dSC. liC al LllOSC
who pool the highest and second high
est number of votes
Woman gubernatorial candidates
thus far reported are Mrs. William
LANCER of North Dakota, wife Of the
deposed Republican Governor. who got
the G. o. P. nomination; Mrs. Elba
Chase, a New Hampshire Communist.
and Miss Bess Gyekis of Pittsburgh.
running on the Industrial Labor party
ticket in Pennsylvania.
Miss Rankin's Election.
Women started coming to the House
before the nineteenth amendment
granting them suffrage was adopted.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Montana Re-
publican, was elected in 1915 and
served during the wartime Congress
from March 4. 1917, to March 3. 1919.
She sought a senatorship and was de-
feated.
Mrs. Norton, leader in New Jersey
Democratic circles, is dean Of the pres
ent feminine House contingent. She
was elected to the Sixty-ninth Con-
gress in 1924.
Besides those named, woman candi-
dates for the House include Lillian An
drews and Mildred c. Boop, Socialist
Labor, New Jersey; Gertrude Jones,
Republican, Ohio; Grace Wick. inde-
pendent. Oregon: Harriet Morris, So
cialist; Miss Susan I. Brumm, Equal
Rights; Ida G. Kast, prohibition;
Edith L. Reed. prohibition; Manda M
Horlacker. prohibition; Sarah Linn
back, Socialist; Laura Jane Grubbs,
Communist. and Anne E. Felix, Hon
est Elections, Pennsylvania; Mary
Francis Leslie. independent. Virginia;
Laetitia M. Conrad, Socialist, Iowa;
Mrs. G. F. Mills. Democrat; Jessie w.
Hughan and Rachel Pankin, Socialists,
New York.