2841. Adulteration of flour.     U. S. v. 11 98-Pound Bags, 20 96-Pound Bags, 544
48-Pound Bags, and 923 24-Pound Bags of Flour (and 2 other seizure 
actions against flour. Decrees of condemnation ordering portions of 
product  released under bond;   remainder ordered destroyed.     (F. D. C.
Nos. 5828. '5984. 6161. Sample Nos. 35819-B. 67475-E to 67480-E/ incl., 
83976-E.)
Between October 1 and November 5, 1941, the United States attorneys for the 
Eastern District of Arkansas, Southern District of Mississippi, and the Southern 
District of Texas filed libels against 11 98-pound bags, 20 96-pound bags, 544 
48-pound bags, and 923 24-pound bags of flour at Paragould, Ark., 40 48-pound 
bags and 117 24-pound bags of flour at Vicksburg, Miss., and 360 24-pound bags 
of flour at Laredo, Tex., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce within the period from on or about March 20 to on or about October 14,
1941, by Shawnee Milling Co. from Shawnee, Okla.; and charging that it, was 
adulterated in that portions of the product consisted in whole .or in part of a 
filthy substance, and in that the remainder consisted in whole and/or in part of 
a filthy, putrid, and decomposed substance, and was otherwise unfit for food. 
The article was labeled in part: "Golden Rule Flour ["* * * Self-Rising"]"; 
"Flour Shawnee Maid ["Self-Rising"]"; "Mother's Best * * * Flour"; "La- 
Rose ¦*•¦*   *•   Flour"; or "White Eagle   * .. *
'   *   Flour."
Hurt Grocer Co., Paragould, Ark., claimant for the flour at Paragould, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered on 
November 25,1941, as of October 29, 1941, ordering that the product be released 
under bond to be denatured under the supervision of the Food and Drug Admin- 
istration so that it could not be used for human consumption.   On January 6,
1942, no claimant having appeared for the product at Laredo, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and it was ordered delivered to the Quartermaster, Fort 
Mcintosh, Laredo, Tex., for use as livestock feed only. On May 20, 1942, no 
claimant having appeared for the flour at Vicksburg, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.