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Show DRAFT REBELS 5E1 DEFIANT MESSAGE Will Resist Any Effort to Take Them Before Examining Ex-amining Board. Mt'SKOO KK, Okn.. Aug. S. I'nited t.itt4s Mm shal Knloo w.is Hih tstvi hy H. N. .McMillan, I'miod Sta.os coin ml.sy loner lon-er at MAloMfi. tonight Hint a larse holy of draft r chela had K.ithered ul Soiplo. fifteen iu:lea north of MeAle-sU-r. and that tluy had scut word Hint tl.f.v would r'MM any effort to take them before be-fore the district examtnliiK hoaid. Tlio rebels are heaviiv armeJ. Commissi oner MeMillan said. Marshal Knloe instructed Ueviuty Marshal I'eters at McAlester to take fifteen men and proceed at oiue j to Selnio. I M'AI.ESTKR. Okla.. Aupr. S. Oepart-I Oepart-I ment of Justice officials late today be-all filing complaints against more than " 0 I anti-draft rioters held in the stale penl-: penl-: lentlary and county -ail here. Twelve men were charned with rebellion. Taking Tak-ing of depositions has postponed te. preliminary pre-liminary hearings, more than half of the dnxft resist era having display eil a desire to tell officials w ha t they know of the Workins Class union and the propaganda spread through the counties of southeastern southeast-ern Oklahoma to evade operation of the selective draft. |