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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
SHELL DUNKIRK
FROM LAND SIDE
German Guns, Eighteen Miles
Away, Drop Explosives
Into French City.
LONDON HEARS MANY RUMORS
Battery Located by AeropIanes and
Attacked with Bombs-British
Public Greatly impressed by
Action to the Teutons.

London, May 1.-The admiralty an
nounces that the position of the Ger
man guns which have been lombard
ing Dunkirk, having been verified by
air craft reconnaissance, it was at
tackled last evening, twelve small and
two large bombs being dropped.
Reconnaissance also was made to
Ostend, which was cleared of all i'm
portant craft A Taube aeroplane ap-
peared in sight, but kept ten thousand
feet up. A naval aeroplane chased the
Taube, whereupon the latter retired.
Tells of the Bombardment.
The Times correspondent in North.
ern France says the first shell fell in
Dunkirk at $3.50 o'clock Thursday aft
ernoon, almost at the same moment
that three German aeroplanes were
seen lowering overhead.
THE bombardment," the cores
pendent adds, continued for ninety
minutes. Inhabitants hid in the Gel
lars or fed the town. The military au-
thorities of Dunkirk were powerless to
reply to the enemy's big guns, the
whereabouts of which was unknown,
but they opened a furious fire on the
aeroplanes and drove them off Friday
morning all was quiet, and the bonn.
bardment had not been renewed up to
noon"
Sensational Rumors.
Besides the news from the Darda-
nelles, the British public was supplied
with several sensations today. The
misleading of the day French official
communication led to the belief that
the German fleet was out and had
bombarded Dunkirk, on the North Sea
in France, but it transpired that by
some means not yet explained, the Ger
mans had brought their big land guns
within range of Dunkirk and thrown
shells into it and killed twenty per
sons and wounded forty-f1ve.
British Public Impressed.
The British public has been greatly
impressed by the German lombard
ment of Dunkirk, which it is believed
in military circles here must have been
from distance of from eighteen to
twenty miles.
The Times says the incident is of
small Importance from a military
standpoint, but that it brings the war
closer to EngIand's shores than at any
earlier period of the struggle:
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
NO LOSS TO P0LlCYHOLDERS
Company To Be Reorganized on
Sounder Basis.

TOpeka--The receivership Of the
Kansas Home Mutual Life Insurance
is expected to bring about a reorgan-
izatiOn of the company upon a basis
whereby the policyholders viii be pro-
tected against loss J. E Edgerton of
Manhattan brought the suit, asking
for the receiver, alleging the company
had been impTovidentIy managed. The
company has been in trouble several
times since its organization.
Cary J. Wilson, state superintendent
of insurance, said that he did not be-
heve the pOicyholders would lose any
thing 1t is asserted by the officers
that when the company is reorganized
it will be on a better financial basis
than at any time in its history
When the company was started it
had a hard time getting business in
competition with the many other COM
panies operating in the state In or
der to increase its business the COM
pany made a contract with Nathan
Brown, the owner of an insurance
writing scheme, whereby the company
agreed TO pay to Brown 1 per cent of
all the premiums collected on insur-
ance for the twenty years the policies
were TO run This contract covered a
period of thirty-eight years. This
commission was in addition to the
usual agents commission for selling
the insurance
A great many of the policyhOldeTs
in the company objected to this meth
cd of getting additional business as a
drain on the company's resources. The
officers Of the company assert they
were forced to abrogate the contract
The receiYershiD was the result
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Colonel to Fish for Tarpon.

New Orleans, May Colonel
Roosevelt will come to New Orleans
June 1 and with John NJ. Parker,
Southern Bull Moose leader, will spend
a week fishing for tarpon off the Gulf
coast, Mr.. Parker announced yester
day. One arrangement for the
coloners visit made by Parker is that
natives shall refrain from NANTES
tations of curiosity and treat the
colonel as IAN ordinary citizen
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Britain Takes Meat Ships.

London. May 1.-The British gov
eminent by an order in council yes
terday Communicated the whole meat
carrying capacity of all British steam
ships trading between Europe and the
Argentine and Uruguyan republics.
The action was taken under the de.
tense of the Realm Act.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Jane Adams Made Chairman.

The Hague, April 29.-Miss Jane
Adams, the noted Chicago woman
philanthropist and sociologist, was
yesterday unanimously selected as the
permanent chairman of the Women's
Congress, meeting here to devise ways
for ending the war.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Mine Sinks swedish Shin.

Stockholm, April 2S.-The Swedish
steamer Centric, on its way from
Stockholm to Helsingborg, Sweden,
has been sunk by mine of the Aland
Islands in the Baltic Sea. The mem
bers of the vessels crew were saved
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
.ehone raIk Must Be Clean.

Chicago, April 28.-Judge. Goodwin
ruled that the Chicago Telephone Com
pany was within its rights when it re-
moved a telephone from house on
the ground that the telephone was
used for immoral purposes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
A Rabx,s Bite Killed Girl.

Pittsfield, Mass, May Miss Mar
tha Kliener. % years old, died yester-
day at her home in Adams from blood
poisoning which resulted from the bite
of a baby.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Tennessee Mob HANGED a NEGRO.

SomerVille, Tenn, April 29.-Tom
Brooks, the negro slayer OF R. Lee
Day and G. H. Hawkins, was taken
from deputy sheriffs who were bring
ing him from Memphis yesterday and
hanged from the trestle OF a railroad
bridge.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Peace Delegates Ship Sails.

London, April est was announced
today that the Holland.American
steamer Noordam, with the American
delegates to the Women's Peace Con-
ference at The Hague on board, was
permitted to proceed on its way to
Rotterdam yesterday.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
SAVE Roses EaLIInLove

Philadelphia, April 27.-Prof. Henry
G. Walter, head of the plant research
institute of Langhorne, says that roses
fall in love. He says that the passion
of the Killarney for the Crimson Ram
bier is wholly sensuous.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Mills Get Sic War contraets.

Pittsburg. Pa. May Three large
war orders were announced yesterday
by officials of concerns with Pitts
burg plants, with Russia as the buyer
in each case. The Pressed Steel Car
Company announced receipt of an or
der for shrapnel ard cars
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Mors Troops I'd Panama.

Galveston. Tex. April 29.-The Unit
ed States army transport Buford was
ready to sail at noon yesterday for
Colon with AS passengers, al 0tfF
GERS and men Of the army.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Bic Men HeIn RiIIx sundav.

Paterson. \. J, April S0.-One-mfn-
ute testimonials from Ebert H Gary,
head OF the United States Steel eoT-
poration; Frank A Munsey, big Biz
Edwards and. Erman ]. Riddvay vas
an added attraction at the Billy Sun
day meeting Wednesday night
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Mob KILLED Neoro Girl

Prescott. Ark, April 2s.-A party of
unidentified white men shot into the
cabin OF Smith BriIey, negro, near
here last night and killed Bfrey's II
year-old daughter.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Thax Must EIaht for Trial.

New York, April 3e.-Hauy Z.
Thaw's chances for an immediate
trial by jury 20 decide If he Is now
sane, appeared doubtful today, when
the attorney general served a writ OF
prohibition on Thaw's lawyers
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Rritisb seizure Anoers sweden.

London, April 30.-Reuter's Stock
holm correspondent says the arrest
By the British authorities OF the Swed-
ISL motor ship Kronprincessan Mar
geta is the subject OF much complaint
by the Swedish newspapers
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Alaska Retains Hanging.

Juneau, Alaska, April 29.-Gov. J.
F. Strong has vetoed the anti-hanging
bill passed recently by the territorial
legislature.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
John Bunny Is Dead.

New York, April 27.-John Bunny.
whose antics as a moving picture
comedian, have made millions laugh,
died at his home in Brooklyn yester-
day
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

Washington, April so.-Thousands
Of French girls have vowed to wed
only men manned in the present zar.
according to Jules Bois, famous French
writer, visiting here.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Turks Massacre Armenians.

Julia, Trans-Caucasia, May IA
renewal OF the recent massacre of
Christians in Armenia is now in prog.
ress in the whole district of Lake Van
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
LIVE STOCK MEN ARE ANGRY
Commissioner Mercer Threatens Re-
taIiation Against Five States IN
less Quarantine is Lifted.

Topeka Notice has been served on
authorities Of Oklahoma, Texas, Colo
RADIO, New Mexico and Arizona, by ].
H Mercer, live stock sanitary commits
sioner Of Kansas, that unless they lift
the quarantine against Kansas cattle
by May 1 he will quarantine against
all cattle from those states Not only
will he prohibit cattle from those
states coming into Kansas to feed or
Craze, but he viii prohibit their ship
ment through the state to market cen
tiers.
This drastic action, Mr.. Mercer be-
lieves, is necessary to correct a great
wrong that is being done Kansas by
paralyze cattle shipments from those
states and might hurt the various mar
kets for a while.
Mr.. Mercer is especially yexed at
Texas because that state not only for
bids Kansas cattle going there, but
also refuses to let cattle from Mexico
pass through that state to Kansas
Unless California lifts her embargo
Kansas will not be able to make 3
display at the Panama-Pacific fair, al
though several thousand dollars have
been appropriated by the state to en-
courage a big Kansas exhibit of live
stock there.
There has not been a case OF foot
and mouth disease in the state for
more than six weeks, and no indica-
tions of any further outbreaks The
stockmen believe they are not getting
as much for their fat stock as they
would if the Kansas City market we're
open to them They want open COM
petition
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Every Kansan Has a Phone.

There is a telephone for every home
in Kansas. The reports of all the tele-
phone companies doing business in
the state have been received by the
public utilities commission and ii
shows a total of 322, 1888 telephones in
actual use in the state in 1914. That
is one telephone to every five persons
and five persons constitute the aver
age family. There were pa, 1923 tele-
phones in the state in 1913, showing
a growth of more than 10000 phones
in the year
r r +
To Probe "Bridge Trust"
Investigation Of the alleged bridge
trust and its operations in Kansas
will begin in a few days, according to
announcement made recently by s. n
Brewster, attorney general
r r r
Fight for Mortgage Law.
The Kansas bankers interested in
farm mortgages are raising a Jack
pot to pay the lawyers for fighting
for the new mortgage registration tax
law before the supreme court
r r
The fight the Kansas agricultural
college and most OF the farmers OF
Eastern Kansas made last fall against
the Hessian fly is bringing results.
George A Dean, state entOmologist,
came to Topeka the other day from an
inspection trip over a large part Of
the fy-infected district and announced
that the damage from the fly viii be
very small, compared with the damage
Of the last few years. The early sown
wheat is dead where the fly got into
il, said Professor Dean But there
is not a fly TO be found in the late
sown wheat"
After a %Tin Bridge" Trust
A NJ Keene Of Fort Scott has been
appointed assistant attorney general
by 8. ". Brewster, attorney general
He viii be in charge OF the tin bridge
trust investigation and will begin his
inquisition at once
Editors on U. S. Grand Jury.
Six or eight newspaper editors in
southeastern Kansas realize now the
power of the federal courts They
have been summoned to serve as
grand Jurors at the May term Of the
federal court at Fort Scott.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Must lac Reserse Fund.

Must Have Reserve FUND.
Mutual live stock insurance COM
panies must make provision for build
ing up surplus funds. according to
recent ruling made By the Insurance.
department.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Wants to Inerease Rates.

The Pittsburg & Joplin Interurban
Railway Company has asked the utili-
ties commission for the privilege Of
putting in a rate OF cents a mile on
its lines in southeastern Kansas. The
company has been charging a fat zone
rate, which averages less than cents
a mile
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
No New Risk Rates Soon.

No changes will be made in the fire
insurance rates in Kansas for six
months and perhaps a year This
statement was made by Carey Wilson,
state insurance superintendent, the
other day.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

The federal authorities have arrest
ed A. L Sewers, formerly vice presi-
dent of a Topeka hail insurance COM
pany, and two of Sewers relatives,
Charles BOwdre and J. J. Robinson,
both of Grainland, on a charge Of u.s.
ing the mails to defraud- The men
were indicted by the grand jury last
week II is charged they cOnspired to
defraud the company out Of about $500
on fake hail losses by insuTing their
own growing grain and collecting hail
losses when. the government alleges,
their crops were not injured at an
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
After a ~Tin Bridge" Trust
Editors on U. S. Grand jury.

Six or eight newspaper editors in
southeastern Kansas realize now the
power Of the federal courts They
have been summoned to serve as
grand jurors at the May term Of the
federal court at Fort Scott.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
The Jointest Leave Kansas.

Nearly half the Kansas counties are
not even troubled with bOOtleggers.
Forty-six- counties did not have a
liquor conviction in the district
courts The board OF control has just
compiled the liquor cases in the dis
trict courts of the state Cove and
Hamilton counties did not report TO
the board this year There were esq
convictions for selling liquor in the
state during 1914 This is more than
one hundred less than In 1913. when
district court reports showed 766
convictions
+ I,
Youngest Spanish War Veteran Dies.
James D. LeaI1y OF Topeka, said to
have been the youngest soldier in the
Spanish-American war, is dead Of tu-
berculosis- He was a member Of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment and
fought in the Philippines under Gen
eral Fred Funston
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Train of Kansans to Fair7

A special trainload OF Kansans may
accompany Gov Arthur Capper and
the state officials to the San Francis
CO Exposition for the celebration OF
Kansas Day. July 19
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
To Probe "Rridse Trust"
Eiaht for Mortaaae Law.

The Kansas bankers interested in
farm mortgages are raising a Jack
pot to pay the lawyers for fighting
for the new mortgage registration tax
law before the supreme court
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-19

Man risks much in his fight viii
nature. He is not content to use tina.
good old Dame as she seemingly IN
tended to be used, to cajole her in heI
moderate moods into blessing his eff
forts with conditions that insure Ger
tain frui1ulness, but be must need,
challenge her in sections where She
seemingly smiles only to lure MAJ t.
his economic loss or destruction soon.
er or later. They grow wheat Ut
in the Canadian northwest-if the
season is long enough, but they al
ways run the risk Of August frosts.
The expected happened this time.
But that section has not had a mono
poly on cold weather scares. The nip
ping air that harbingers the APP
preaching fall has threatened our W
northwest, and now it is a weather
market" with the wheat and the corn
up there. The Lake Superior region
registered an August snow storm this
week, and South Dakota reported a
few fakes. 1t might about as well be
as the deluges Of rain that have
battered and washed crops in several
sections Of the Mississippi Valley this
week. Whatever may be the damage,
we had quite a large margin to play
onand there is an abundance left.
Gazette.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-19
MEXICO EM FILES LIBEL
SUIT N LDAR COUNTY
E-Caznissiunrr T. J. R1ineg. e
ERtzzRs Dezznds sz5es Frsa
J. c. v ReassA

A ST that Va thoruaEAly an As
|GI bsszness tzn2=6z f- a yssz
ard tzO Bozsh-a 4 rales . tral
.-~s hles n Orr1s eo1r1 Izte yss
t9asy ~ssn noass J. Rzissy. :
.fagzG oo1zisa1g1er Sod J. G. Y.
Rsazc1 fw C.Da. fer suiag ths
recall Pesiioa rhioA vas circulated
.seziuz Ramsey. Mayor NurrsH and
.cozzssae Nines, says TIE Kfrks-
.nHk ExFzsss q Tsesday. Mr.. Rsia<y
.rezEsss his oascs N June and nsred
70 Nsxica Nc bat was N sO~yx a feu
azvs 3 ard Arranged FOR he Sling
e the caz4
Kirkzine has the Conmissiea form
of guVsrunent he Express has ths
Pesinsn q the plaintiff pzhlished II
fan and il snezes. That said libel-
cs pubkcztioa vas false and defzns-
tssy and knozn 10 defendant 70 bs
fzlse 81 tie tire he Wlblhed the
zDe: that said psbhcafioa herein
eosuplnined Of was maEriUuSIy made
2nd caused 70 be made BY dcfsndont
q and e0aremizg the plaintiff and
that the same was and Is calculated to
deprive him Of Pab1E c~ozfdence
The petition referred 70 alleges Mr..
Rainey did not fulfill his duties a. :
CawmszSioner.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-19
MEM TRADE TERRITORY IS
ADDED 10 MEXICO now


WTsk ~ suirsl a the northen
r- In. Nexiuo
S@n1 fe Is ene q ne oast se
n this pAs4 q NizsOal and Is already
w.kiur m "a rru.inr to grow and
r,os,sr h m-la5on Is fSz
Ars,v ,he firms Of Szst=
~. nm Fslas lumber; Perry
Davis rr,ernl -e-handise; F=nk
srUssr werckne santa Re Bank,
e.nstol ,.oek x1sc1l SURPLUS, $4,000;
president Ashby Boets; c. Z. Smith.
e.Sh;er. Dr.. Nepausu Bolts. drugs:
.Ia,aer Hoeksrs buteher shop and
r-e~..wraues. H. Brown. barber;
Emes SNYDER. General blacksmith;
wanoa camnsn. B~ladksni.h; l. G.
HOARD A So. ~Jlers; Or. J. s
Drake. DR.. wiu Bsrts: r. A. Hanger,
Hrsryrnnn; 7. 4 Andersoa and ]. A
Crumu. uain.er J. n. Bishop, Ear
pente=- Carter 4 Puryis. elothing;
Mis- Mary wissou- postmistress and
groceries: Jack stevens general store
]. r. Smiley owns 40 acres Of land
near TIE town an is an extensive cat
tie and live stce feeder. Lee Ne
Cure has a fne SO acre farm out
beyond Salt Rive. east Of the town.
7. z. Hendrix i . saw mill man and
has a rich bottom farm south Of town.
C. c. Lucas has 2 good little farm
lust beyond the big covered bridge
south Of town. Roase Brothers have
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-19
OUTRAGEOUS. SCAN

DALOUS GOSSIP.
or course there Is no gossip IN
Mexico Is there is nothing to gossip
about and il there VAS or people
are not inclinea 10 that direction; but
as . Preventiye medicine we publish
The following pertinent article from
the Jefferson City Capital Nexz:
-of al the instruments for d~eEtru-
ton eser inverted By Cod. q or
imp the moEt deadly ard the most
~dastzrdly. the nsost helde and the
most filthy, the most criminal and the
most eozsrdly. the most aapicable
ard the noEt damnable. il the double
forked tongue Of q shemale gossip.
The deadly chlorine gas from . Ger
man howitzer shell, with its zgoniz-
ing torture that ends only with q pain
fol, lingering death, compares with .
gossip II about the same proportion
that q romance IN the springdme nv
ais Dante's Inferno. The gas only
kills at last and leaves behind tender
memories and q reputation; while the
gossips, God for give them fbut He
never willy are assassins Of character.
the n asset that all men cherish
above life OF love OF health or wealth
81 power. No punishment could suf-
fciently atone for their cu-zsedness.
May they be rammed naked. into q
red hot cannon and fired through q
hedge fence, into 3 seat Of melted
lead
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-19
SURVEYING ELECTRIC LINE
'FRUnl0WAT HR0B6H MEXICO
Eneineer =ni Proaoier Ct Rad ~ -
Keekuk Dam Pe-sr wsrs n his
CITY nHrzazy.

Il. ". KHieAL ponOssr, and ThoD
As Pefte-ssa. engineer. far The psp
ozes eIertrie line frun Keokuk. Ia .
Jsaersan Cty. wsrs IN Menrs nwa
day 6srussing their PrOPo@iroa wa
ths citizens. They want $50 a NH
for the uuey. Mr.. Psttersoa ~
ths rad Is backed BY Eastern cAFita
aad win likely Re started IN N
Spring. However be Is vsry frank y
STATE that after the sarey it may nol
materiAlizs II found impractical
The road has been surveyed 70 Beth.
eL. No. which Is 8 miles north Il
sAeIbyvile. They intend to pass
through this city. touch Fnltca and
thence to the state capitol A branch
running to Columbia Is also eOntem-
plated Regarding the local electric
line Mr. Peterson said il might be
purchased BY them. If it was for sale.
a. they expected TO enter Mexico
FROM the north. The road makes con-
nesdons with the Santa Fe by means
Of a spur to Argyls, "a.
The present survey is for the pur-
pose Of finding whether the route is
feasible. II not the plans win be aban-
dOned and the money spent for the
survey lost Mr.. Peterson, however,
stated he found this section Of Mis-
souri, one Of the best prospects for
electric lines he had discovered in his
10 years Of surveying railroads in this
country.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-19
ALL + A OFFICIALS.

officials Of the Mexico Sunday
School base bail league met late Fri
day Afternoon and chose Bryan viii
son as manager and DR.. R. C. Strobe
as captain Of an All-Star team to be
chosen from the four teams in the
local league. This team win play a
series from a similar AIl-Star team
from the Fulton league as wen as
with other teams.
The dates for the first Of the games
in the series will be announced shortly
and DIR. Strobe will choose the play.
ers for each game and Mr.. Wilson viii
have charge Of the arrangements.
These -post-season games are expect
ed 70 attract much attention as well
as rouse quite . little enthusiasm.
DR.. Strobe said. when interviewed,
that he was not going to pick on all
star team, but that all players IN the
Sunday school league were eligible to
play. That all who expected TO be on
the team though must come out and
try for il and not expect to be urged.
He also stated that he would not play
himself. He will announce before each
game who are to play.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-19
PAINTER TO PUT LID ON.

jefferson City, Mo-, Aug. l2--1 in
tend to stop the illegal sale Of liquor
in Oregon County if il lies in my
power to do So" said Acting Gov. VIM.
R Painter Wednesday, referring TO
complaints filed by the Sunday School
Association Of Mammoth Springs,
Ark.
4 have wired Gov. Hays of Arkan-
sas asking him to instruct the author
ities Of Fulton County, in his State,
to cooperate with the authorities Of
Oregon County, Missouri. in the sup
precision Of the Illegal liquor traffic
The acting Governor received a teIe-
gram Wednesday from Prosecuting
Attorney T.. W. Mesana Of Oregon
County IN which Mesana says every
effort will be made to suppress the
traffic.