Show NB E ENGLAND ENL 9 fIEl F ALlS N l NE Massachusetts Mas sac h use t t Elects sElects Woman Aged 40 to Sit In Congress LOWELL ELL Mass July 1 tA l.-CA'- OP Yew New cw England has elected its lis first congress woman Mrs Dire Edith Rogers Republican by a vote of more than two and a half to one She was swept Into office yester yeater- yesterday ter- ter day receiving votes In the special Fifth congressional district election to for tor her Democratic tic opponent the former governor i and former COlmer representative Eugenia Eugen I F. F Foes FOBS of Boston once a candi candi- candidate I candidate date for tor the Democratic nomina nonina- nomination nom tion for president inn inn-I Mrs Mra Rogers succeeds succeed her hus hus- husband band d John Jacob Rogers who died Pa Pad ta t last March after making i a distin distinguished distinguished record She received a larger arger proportion of ot the total vote than her husband did last Novena Novem her ber Mrs Rogers was born in Saco Maine 40 years ago Mrs Rogers Is the sixth woman to boo bo- elected to congress her pre pre- predecessors predecessors in tho the house being Miss Jeanette Rankin of Montana Miss MIS I Alice Robertson of ot Oklahoma Mrs Winifred l Mason Huck of oC Il Illinois It- It Mrs Mae Mac Nolan and Mrs hs l 11 1 Julius Kahn both of ot California who also succeeded their husbands In the senate Mrs l e Rebecca e L L. I Felton Fe 0 served r one e day as a successor to Tom Watson of Georgia |