Evening star., 1944-12-17
Capital Sidelights
By Will P. Kennedy.

Three outstanding women are coming
into the new Congress-the actress,
Helen Gahagan Douglas of California,
replacing Thomas F. Ford, who formerly
served in the House press gallery; Mrs.
Chase Going Woodhouse of Connecticut,
professor of economics, who has done
important State and Federal co-opera-
tive wartime work and who succeeds
Representative John D. McWilliams, and
Mrs. Emily Taft Douglas, at-large from
Illinois, who succeeds Representative
Stephen A. Day. Two women are leaving
yoluntarily-MissW Winifred Stanley, who
was elected from New York, at-large, to
the present House by the largest vote
of any member, who at 80 is the youngest
who was not candidate for reelection,
and Mrs. Villa E. Fulmer of South Caro-
line, elected on November 7, to finish out
her late husbands unexpired term.
Mrs. Woodhouse is Canadian born, but
attended school in Kentucky, later TAX
ing her A. B. degree at McGill University
in 1912 and her A. M. the following year,
with subsequent postgraduate courses
at the Universities of Berlin and Chi
cago. She is married and has two chill
dren. Her son is lieutenant in the Army
Air Corps. She taught at Smith Col
lege, 1s17-l925; was senior economist of
the Bureau of Home Economics, United
States Department Of Agriculture, 1926
1928: also held important positions in the
University of North Carolina, Connecti-
cut College, Smith School for Social
Work. Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity; the Universities of Oregon.
Texas, Iowa and Vassar Institute of
Euthenics, was Secretary of State of
Connecticut, and consultant of the
War Manpower Commission, War Labor
Board and War Finance Commission
She also is an editor and author.
Mrs. Helen M. Gahagan Douglas.
actress and wife of the actor, Melvin
Douglas, finished her formal education
at Miss Chapin's School, Northampton,
Mass, and at Barnard College, Column
bia, in 1922. She was married in 1881
and has two children. She has PLAYED
many leading roles and sang leading
operatic roles with European companies
and at Salisbury festivals. 1928, 1880 and
1887. She also has starred in moving
pictures and made an American con-
cert tour in 1887 and European con-
cert tour that same summer. She was
elected Democratic national committee
woman in 1910, and was a member the
same year of the National Advisory
Council for WPA community service
projects. She has been a member of
the National Advisory Committee, Once
OF Civilian Defense. She made a tour
of Army camps in a revival of "The
Road to Rome"
A third veteran of the global war
was at the Capitol last week making
arrangements for his induction into
Congress on January 20-Maj. Frank
l.. Chelf from Lebanon, KY. He is 81
years of age. and already well known
IN Washington, having held an i'm
portant position in the Air Transport
Service at Gravelly Point routing war
transportation. There he won rapid
advancement from second lieutenant to
major. He enlisted in the Army, al
though father of several children and
not subject to the draft, but was re-
leased from military service on a med
ical discharge last June His first promi-
nence In politics was when the late
Representative Edward CreaI of Ken
lucky had him designated as district
delegate to the Democratic National
Convention. Then when Mr.. Creal died,
and Chester O.. Carrier, who had sold
Bibles and worked on a railroad to earn
his way through college, won the seat
as a Republican. handily, over Ben
Talbot, director of finance in the
Happy Chandler regime, Maj. Chelf
was nominated to recover the seat He
raced away with the election, running
far head Of President Roosevelt in that
district.