The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
BANDIT AGAIN
 NAMED COMMANDER VETERANS
Reappoints General Booth as Adjutant and Chief of Staff. All Department Com
 manders Re- elected
By Associated Press

I Houston, Texas, October 1.-The United Confederate Veterans in annual reunion here today, reelected by exclamation all
 thir principal officers, completed their
 sessions and turned their attention te
 the parade tomorrow morning-the event for which many of them made the trip of hundreds of miles from their homes to Houston.
 The officers reelected, headed by Gen.
 eraI K. M Van Zandt of Fort Worth, Texas, commander -in-chief, were chosen without opposition. They include Gen. eral Julian g. Carr of Durham N. C., commander of the department of the army of North Virginia; General Virgil Y. Cook, Batesville, Ark, commander of the trans Mississippi department and General Calvin E. Vance, Batesville, Miss. commander of the department of the army of Tennessee. General Van s.andt also announced the re-appoint- ment of General A. B. Booth of New Or leans. as adjutant and chief of staff. Selection of next years reunion city was left to a committee headed by the commando in chief and including in it's membership all the department and di- visional commanders. This committee. if was stated, will receive invitations and announce it's selection probably in sew eral months
 The sons of Confederate veterans, the confederated Southern Memorial Associa- t,on and the Forrest Cavalry Corps also elected officers today.
 FORREST HEADS SONS Nathan B. Forrest of Biloxi. Miss, was reelected commander of the Sons of IF r-a a was chosen commander of the depart ment of North Virginia Tor another term R. A. Lincoln of Columbus Miss. was reelected commander of the Tennessee department, and s. F. Carter, com mander of the newly organized Albert sidney Johnson camp of Houston. was elected commander of the trans-Miss- issippi departmnet. Members of the executive councii oi the Sons of Veterans were elected as follows:
 Ray Price, Washington. representing the North Virginia depa rtment; Steve lH. King, Tulsa, ok,a., trans Mississippi departrnent; John Ashley Jones, Allan ta. Ga. department of Tennessee, and
 Mcdonald Lee. Covington, Na council mana large.
 The Forrest Cavalry Corps chose Gen.
 W. A. Collier of Memphis, Tenn- as it's
 commander in chief for the ensuing year and the Memorial Association
 elected the following officers:
 Mrs. A. MacKjnbrough. Greenwood,
 Miss. president Mrs. Elamet l.. Merry,
 Tulsa, okla, national organizer, and
 Mrs V. H. Crowder of Tulsa. Okla.
 president Of tke Oklahoma branch. WANT RECORDS BOUND
 At the afternoon sessior of the vet I<r <tn1 ,eyr n~ tho United States government to have the enlistment records Of the Confeder- ate soldiers pripte" and bound so they jmay be preserved and tc have the gov ernment turn over to the states which formed the Confederate: $65,000, 900 said to have been collected in cotton l tax at the close of the Civil war. The money would be used by the states to pension former Confe derate soldiers. Another resolution adopted provided 1 for appointment of q committee to take steps looking to the removal of the 1 body of Mrs Jefferson Davis from Ba- you Sara. La. to Richmond, Va, where ! the body of the crescent or the con | fe Ieracy was buried
 l The Sens of Veterans adopted reso- llutions indors.rG movemenr for con- struction of transcontinental high way through the southern part of the United States.
 plea was made this afternoon for ,the help of the Veterans, the Sons l of Veterans and the United Daughters 1 of the Confederacy in raising money l to complete a monument of Jefferson Davis at Fairview. Ky. This monu- ment when completed. would be 350 fleet high and the second highest of it's kind ir the world. the Washington
 mcru,nent alone exceeding it. aceord-
 ing to speakers.