New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 21

: ImneM‘kIIilol Conlra Yores Je 4 Charlette, N. C lhy 2. P—An suditorium and.armory building erected a5 & _lasting monument to u‘m. ‘s rising rapidly Nere for' the thirty-ninth reunion of the United Capfederate veterans June 4. - - sy the building will be ready for-the 100.000 veterans, sons and da; ers of veterans, and members of civic organizations who will'take part in the first or- confederate gathering here since * Jefferson Davis summenel kis cabinet in 1865, The " “inauguration ceremonics June . ¢ - will follow meparate: ser- vices to be held in commemoration of the birthdate of Jefferson Davis, and the nnnu-l confederate ball June § is scheduled to initiate Digle * n:»er- into" the intricacies of the old wartime polkas and reels. 'he peak demonstration of the reunion .will be June 7. Led by 20 military bands and the cherished “stars and bars’ the aged veterans will file past seven reviewing stands over a route 70 city blocks in length. Men and women in the review- ing stands will bear names dear to the confederacy. They include Rebert E, Lee IV of New York, grandson of the famous southern chieftain; Anna Jackson Preston and Cortlandt Preston, great grand- deughters of Gen. Stonewall Jack- som;; Mrs. Jefferson E. R. Preston, sranddaughter of General Jackson; Caf, Jefferson Hayes Dayis and Migs Robine Webb, grandchildren of Jefterson Davis; and D. H. Hill, §r., grandson of General Hill. Gen. A. T. Goodwyn of Elmore, Ala, commander in chief of the Unjted Confederate Veterans, will lead the parade aided by Gen. Heénry Rene Lee, adjutant and chlef of staff. Capt. E. R. Wiles of Little Rock, Ark., s chief of the Sons of Con- federate Veterans, and general manager of the reunion. William A. Collier of Memphis will ride at the head of Forrest's cavalry, and Mrs. A. McD. Wilson of Atlanta will lead members of the Confede- rate Southern Memorial associ- atfon. Mayor F. Marion Redd of Char- lotte will preside at all civic cere- monies. UNPAID WAGES CRRATE STATUE OF FARMHAND Erected in Memory of J. H. Craw- ford in Cemetery in West Union, lowa. West Union, lowa, May 24 (P— Wages which he failed to collect for years have provided funds for a life- size statue of J. H. Crawford, a lone- ly farm ‘laborer, and his dog, over Crawford's grave in a Miliside ceme- tery néar the Volga river at Lima, Fayette county. While Crawford. worked on the farm of Crit Harrison . he.refused, for an unknown reason, to accept his salary. After Crawford’s death in 1905 the late Miss Libbie Harrl- son, a sister of the employer, plan- ned erection of the monument to utilise Crawford’s savings and to show. his love for his dog. which had been almost a constant companion. From two faded' snipshots of the man and his dog. the only “avail- able pictures, Mias Harrison per- sunded an Italian aculptor from' Bos- ton to fashion the monument, after many artists had declined because of the poor reproductions. The light gray granite slab is eight feet high and four feet wide. Above the dog's figure is a bronze plate bearing this quotation from a speech by Senator George G. Vest: “The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world is his dog. # Tiny Sioux Domain Smallest Ever Held Plerre, 8. D, May 24 (®—Drift- irg Goose is only a misty name now, l even among the Sioux, but for a brief interval he held the center of the stage in the conflict between his race and the conquering whites. With a band of 100 followers, Drifting Goose refused to sign the treaty of 1868 by which Indians were placed on certain resgrvatjons. Instead, he picked his own reserva- tion, and at one time forced predi- dential recognition for a year. It was the smallest Indian ‘reserve ever es- tablished in the Dakotas. Attacks on settlers, » made by Drifting Goose and his band, led President Hayes to restore the three townships to the public domain in 1880, But Drifting Goose never could be content under government super- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TAGGART'S SN WA 60 INTO POLITICS |Indiana Leader, Now Dead, to Have a Sucoessor Indianapolis, May 24 UP—Anotger Taggart—Thomas D., son of the late Tom—is under consideration.for a prominent place in democratic state politics, ruled by his father for so many years. Gomip has it that the younger Taggart is slated to succeed Charles A. Greathouse of Indianapolis as the Indiana member of the democratic pational committee. Greathouse, it i3 sald, i3 eager to relinquish the post. Taggart, according to close friends is far more interested in politics than generally believed. For many years he was his father's confidant in things political, and it was to him that the late S8amuel M. Raiston in 1924 sent word that he wished his name withdrawn from further con- sideration by the national conven- tion as a presidential candidate. Taggart has attended many na- tional conventions and was a dele- gate to the Houston meeting. He is 40 years old and was gradu- ated from Yale 'in 1909, ‘Sheffield Scigntilic schopl. His hobby has been fine horses and he has a string of runners. Amyvale was entered in year's Kentucky Derby. Volo- mite, 2;06, trotter, will race for the hng stakes In the grand circuit. This horsc won the futurity at Lexington, ., last year. In recent years Tngxnrt has man- aged his father's hotel property at French Lick, where many of the nation’s great political figures gather annually. HOME TOWNERS THLL OF SINCLAIR Restless Drug Clerk, Later Oil Man, Now in Jail vision. With his tiny tribe he led n] Tndependence, Kas., May 24 (P— nomadic life along the Missouri riv- er until the band faded away beforc the oncoming settlers. Living organisms have been found in oil brine at more than 3,000 fect beneath the surface of the earth. <N Every Day—A |Harry Sinclair may thank his boy- hood drug store experience in In- dependence for his present freedom from jail drudgery. It was here at the University of Kansas that Sinclair learned the druggist's trade, & qualification Sale Day—at that mow enables him to' serve as an assidtant pharmacist while pass- ing bis 90-day sentence in the Dis- trict of Columbia jail. Sinclair's home town well remem- bers the youth who disliked the “tame life” of a drug clerk. They recall the oil magnate as a boy who ran errands in his father's drug store, and later managed it. That was 30 years ago. He left Independence in 1907 to make his first “strike” in the Cush- |ing oil field of Oklahoma, then in its first stages of development. His holdings soon produced 35,000 bar- rels a day. Returning to Indepen- dence, he built on of the town's most pretentious homes. ‘Three years later he moved to Tulsa, built another mansion and formed a company that built that city's first skyscraper., ' Independence has:_not been slighted since 8inclair made hia ‘millions. For years hé has topped |the ‘list of donors to any local cause. In 1919, when two com- panies of Independence soldiers re- turned, from France, We .ordered a tug, léaded with delicaties, to meet the ship at quarantin®. Later ne $20 bl has provided unllgrml tract for park purposes, -and has given numerous trophies for Inde- pendence sport tournaments. Sinclair's wife was' Elizabeth Ferrell, daughter of a pioneer In- dependence family. 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