24406. Adulteration of ripe olives. IT. S. v. 15 Half Barrels, et al., of Ripe Olives. Default decrees of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. nos. 34444, 34445. Sample no. 17630-B.) These cases involved an interstate shipment of ripe olives which were in part decomposed. On November 28,1934, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 35 half-barrels and 10 quarter-barrels of olives at New* York, N. Y-, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 19,1934, by Alexander B. Stewart from Stockton, Calif., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Olympic Olives Alexander B. Stewart Exeter, California." The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance. On February 19, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemna- tion were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed. M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,