Show WHO'S NOO IN CONGRESS cON RESS I J. J 0 O. Fernandez Once Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Boy He Worked Way Up in Politics NEW w ORLEANS Jan 5 P W JP-Joa- Joa chim Octave Fernandez 35 and fiery fought his way into the national house louse of representatives tati es through the I 1 newsboy route and andon andon on a grade school f education Inspired politically call cally at the age of w 8 by Doc HIggins HIg- HIg 1 gins boss street cleaner y yo young 0 U ung fl g h Fernandez set his course in politics and held it He Isa is isa j a Democrat Docs Does authority iL over the 14 other t ts s street t r e e t cleaners seemed to me the J. J O. O FERNANDEZ most wonderful thing says Fernan Fernan- dez He talked to us boys of ot poll poll- tics told us that he held his job through politics and I hoped some day dayto dayto dayto to figure In that dazzling world Fernandez left school after alter the sixth grade to sell papers to help support support sup sup- port the family Later he was a clerk clerkin in a news stand He was elected to congress In the thelast thelast thelast last Democratic primary on the wave that swept Governor Hucy Huey P. P Long into the senate Fernandez is regarded regard regard- ed as a Long man in Louisiana poli pol pol- i tics Prize fights horse racing and baseball baseball base base- ball afford him his major recreation |