2115. Adulteration of flour.    IT. S. v. 51 Bass and 216 Bags of Flour.    Default
decrees   of  condemnation  and   destruction.     (F.   D.   C.   Nos.   5078,   5273. 
Sample Nos. 37880-E, 49684-E.)
On July 31 and August 4, 1941, the United States attorneys for the Northern 
District of Alabama and the Northern District of Florida filed libels against 
216 bags of flour at Anniston, Ala., and 51 bags of flour at Marianna, Fla., alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce within the period 
from on or about May 7, 1940, to on or about February 3, 1941, by Hanover Star 
Milling Co. from Germantown, Ill.; and charging that it was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance. The article was labeled 
in part: "12 Lbs. Bleached Cherry Blossom Self Rising [or "Plain"] Flour"; or 
"12 Lbs.   *   *   *    Silver Plume Flour."
On September 22 and 24, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.