Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-08
CONFEDERATE VETS REFLECT OFFICERS
 BIG PARADE TODAY
All Executives of Organiza ton Given Another Term
 Without Opposition
AUXILIARY UNITS
 CHOSE THEIR HEADS
Resolutions Adopted Call On Government to Pay Back S6O,- 900 Collected As Cotton Tax
 After Civil War

1 Houston, Texas, Oct. 7.-The Unit ed Confederate Veterans in annual re union here today, reelected by ac clsmation all their principal officers i completed their session and turned | their attention to the parade tomor. row morning-the event for which many of them made the trip of hun. dreds of miles from their homes tc Houston.
 The officers reelected, headed by General K. M. Van Zandt, of Fort Worth, Texas, commander in chief were chosen without opposition. They include General Julian s. Carr of Durham, N. C., commander of the department of the army of North Virginia; General Virgil Y. Cooke Batesville, Arkansas, commander of the trans Mississippi department and General Calvin D. Vance, Batesville, Miss, commander of the department of the army of Tennessee. General Van Zandt, also announced the re- appointment of General A. B. Booth of New Orleans, as adjutant and Chief of Staff.
 Selection of next years reunion city was left to a committee headed by the commander in, chief and includ- ing in it's membership all the depart ment and divisional commanders. This committee, it was stated, will receive any invitation and announce their selection at later date.
 The Sons of Confederate Veterans the Confederated Southern Memorial Association and the Forrest Cavalry corps also elected officers today.
 Nathan B. Forrest of Biloxi, Mis- sissippi, was reelected commander of the Sons of Veterans, James F Tatum, Berkley, Virginia, was chosen commander of the department of North Virginia for another term, A. Lincoln of Columbus, Mississippi was reelected commander of Tennes- see department and s. F. Carter, com mander of the newly organized Albert Sidney Johnson camp of Houston, was elected commander of the trans-Mis- sissippi department.
 Members of the executive Council fol the Sons of Veterans were elect ed as follows:
 Ray Price, Washington, D. C., rep resenting the North Virginia depart ment; Steve H. King, Tulsa, Okla homa, Mississippi department; John Ashley Jones, Atlanta, Ga., De- partment of Tennessee, and Mcdonald Lee, Covington Virginia, councilman at large.
 The Forrest Calvary Corps chose General w. A. Collier of Memphis Tennessee, as it's commander in chief for the ensuing year, and the memo rial association elected the follow ing officers:
 Mrs A. McKinbrough, Greenwood Miss, president; Mrs. Emmet L. Mer- ry, Tulsa, Okla, national organizer and Mrs. w. H. Crowder of Tulsa. president of the Oklahoma branch of the association.
 Want Record Preserved
 At the afternoon session of the vet erans resolutions were adopted ask ing the United States to have enlist ment records of the confederate sol diers printed and bound in order that they may be preserved, and to have the government turn over to the states which formed the confederacyl 65,O00,000, said to have been collect ed in cotton tax at the close of the civil war. The money would be used by the states to pension former con- fcderate soldiers.
 Another resolution adopted provid- ed for appointment of committee to take steps looking to the removal of the body of Mrs. Jefferson Davis from Bayou Sara, Virginia, to Rich mond, Va, where the body of the pres ident of the 'confederacy was buried
 The Sons of Veterans adopted reso- lutions indorsing movement for construction of a trans-continenta) highway through the Southern part of, the United States.
 A plea was made this afternoon fer help of the Veterans, the sons of veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy in raising money to complete a monument of Jefferson Davis at Fairview, Kentucky. This monument, when completed, would be $50 feet high and the second high est of its kind in the world, the Washington monument alone exceed ing it, according to the speakers.