Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-04
DRAFT REGISTERS
STIR WASHINGTON
The Government Prepares to Act
Against Slackers
FOOD BILL GOES THROUGH
House asses it Unanimously Eight U
5. Gunners Lost When Steamer
Montana Was Sunk.

Resistance TO the execution of the
selective draft has taken organized
form in some parts of the country,
and the Government is preparing to
adopt measures to meet the situation.
All this organization is in the South
and Southwest regions which are to
receive the most material benefits of
the draft through the building of
great cantonments for sheltering the
national army. AT the outset of or
ganized objection to the draft most of
the agitation was in the mountain re-
L ginos of the South but it has now
spread to other districts, and one of
the most serious revolts against the
law is in Texas.
The Department of Justice has been
informed that fifty-three members of
the Farmers and Laborers' Protec-
tive Association have been indicted in
the United States Court at Dallas for
an organized attempt to resst the
draft. In Seminole County, Oklaho-
ma, farmers are reported to have
armed to prevent Federal officers
from executing the draft lawand there
ares igns that the spirit of resistance
is spreading in the State. There is
also said to be organized resistance
in Georgia
Through an agent of the Internal
Revenue Service, the Department of
Justice has learned of an extensive
revolt against the draft in Western
North Carolina. Mountain people and
farmers are reported to have arTIed
Special investigators have been sent
there.
To Take Ships In Building.
The Shipping Board has decided
to commander Immediately all ships
on. thestocks in American shipyards
and hasten their construction. This
means the seizure of about 700 yes
sells of more than 100000 tons, about
1,024,000 tons of which is being built
by British interests
The Communicating of ships on the
stocks will be followed by an order
placing under Government control all
American-owned ships on the seas.
this making it possible for the Gov
ernment to direct their operations. In
the direction of this Shipping the the
Government will work in co-opera-
tion with the allied Governments.
1t was said that Rear Admiral
Capps, General Manager of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation, who will be
in direct control of this phase of the
shipping program was at work on the
commander order, and that it night
become effective today or Monday at
the latest
1t is proposed that the Government,
in order to hurry construction shall
take title to the contracts and the
hulls in the present stage of con-
struction. This will make it possible
for the Government to put extra shifts
of men at work and guarantee addi
tional pay for overtime
House Passes Food Bill.
The House voted unanimously to
accept the conference report on the
Administrations Food Control bill,
and the adopted report will go to the
Senate for action today. The vote in
the House was 357 to O. Representa-
tive McLemore of Texas voted pres
ent On the viva voce vote the House
subsequently adopted the conference
report on a companion bill for a food
SURVEY by the Department of Agri-
culture and the stimulation of pro-
duction." This bill was passed sew
eral weeks in advance of the major
measure,
The debate on the conference report
on the Food Control bill brought a
speech from Representative Hefiin
attacking persons and interests op-
posing the war legislation of the Ad-
ministration Mr. Hefiin was so bit
ter in his attack upon two members
of the House-Representat Brit
ten and Mason of Illinois, CRepubh-
cans)-that some of his remarks
were stricken from the record.
Eight Naval Gunners Drowned
/, Eight naval gunners were lost, when
! the American tank steamer MotanO
was sunk by a submarine on July 81.
Sixteen members of thee rev also
perished.
T, All told twenty four lives were
lost in the sinking of the Motano, ac-
cording to an official report which
reached the State Department The
master and twenty-five of the crew
were saved The Departments tele-
gram states that four gunners were