Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-05
SONS Of VETERANS
OPEN MEET WITH
LARGE ATTENDANCE

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 3.-(By
the Associated Press. with approx
inately 500 sons of veterans and Of
fetal ladies registered, the annual
reunion of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans opened officially here to-
night, with the largest attendance in
years.
w. l.. Hopkins, Of Richmond, Va,
adjutant-in-chief, estimated that the
total registration of sons and official
ladies would approximate $4,000.
1.-THE most magnificent gathering
of beautiful women l have ever
seen," was the manner in which Mr..
Hopkins described the visitors at the
hotel headquarters OF the organiza-
ton, as the crowds assembled for
registration and greetings.
Colonel w. Mcdonald Lee, Of Rich
mond, commandments extended
the official greetings tonight when
he presided over the first official
meeting of the Sons of Veterans. The
communicating was the guest Of
the Memphis Rotary club at lunch
con today.
j. L. Highsaw, commander Ma
than Bedford Forrest camp, Mem
phis, called to order the night meet
ing, while the commander-in-ch
was presented by j. L. Buard, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, commander
Tennessee division.
Albanian Speaks
The official ladies were presented
by DIR. w. C. Galloway, commander
army of northern Virginia, while
the address Of welcome was de-
Ivered by Mayor Rowlett Payne, of
Memphis, and a, formal address was
made by Henderson Mailman, of At.
lanta, Ga. j. S. Davenport, com.
mander army trans Mississippi, Of
fered the response FOR the ladies'.
The reawakened spirit of the
southland of long ago stirred again
as thousands of Confederate veter.
ans and visitors poured into the
gally attired city for the thirty
fourth annual reunion of the vet.
Grams and allied organizationsrthe
Sons of Confederate Veterans and
Confederated Southern Memorial as
soclatlon-which swung under way
with a dual observance of Confeder-
ate Memorial day and Jefferson Da-
Wis birthday anniversary.
More than three thousand OF the
veterans had reached the city by
noon and took part in the memorial
service set for the afternoon. This
service, held under auspices of the
Confederated Southern Memorial as
ISOLATION, was the chief preliminary
to the general sessions of the three
organizations which will begin to.
morrow.
Memorial Services
A musical program, featured by
hymns and melodies, peculiarly
southern, and addresses by high Of
ficials of the three organizations
composed the memorial service at
the municipal auditorium where the
reunion sessions will be held. At
the conclusion of this program, the
veterans and their guests moved to
Elmwood cemetery, where the
graves of several hundred Confed-
crate dead were decorated with flow
ers and flags.
Governo- Austin Peay, General
w. B. Haldeman, COMMANDMENT.
chief of the veterans; Mcdonald Lee,
commander-in-chief of the S. c.. v;
Mrs. Frank d. Harold, president
general of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy. and Mayor Rowett
Paine, of Memphis, were speakers
at the memorial service.
Reunion officials expressed the
belief today that the attendance at
The veterans meeting this year will
be as great, if it does not exceed.
the figure set last year at New Or
leans. Arrangements have been
made for more than 10000 veterans
and visitors.