Shoo-ins

In the only two House elections, the Democrats won easily, as expected.

In San Francisco, husky, able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some other Democrat, "I would stump publicly for Dick Welch." In Brooklyn, a trim, earnest party worker named Edna Flannery Kelly, 43, was elected in the normally Democratic, heavily Catholic and Jewish Tenth District.

Mrs. Kelly, widow of a city court judge and mother of two teenagers, had served as a Democratic legislative analyst at Albany, will be the ninth woman in the present House. She based her ten-point platform on the Fair Deal, urged full aid to Israel and, in passing, thumpingly approved the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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