0870. Adu 
of   coal-tar   color.    U.   S.     *     *     *     v.   1J   Pounds   Red,
2 Pounds Yellow, 2 Pounds Brown, and 2 Pounds Purple Coal-Tar 
Color. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion. (F. & D. No. 14428. . I. S. Nos. 4755-t, 4756-t, 4757-t, 4758-t. S. No. 
C-2781.)
On March 4, 1921, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 1$ pounds of red, 2 pounds of yellow, 2 pounds of brown, 
and 2 pounds of purple coal-tar color, at San Antonio, Tex., alleging that the 
articles had been shipped by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., May 10, 
1920, and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Texas, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the articles was alleged in the libel for the reason that 
sodium chlorid had been mixed and packed with, and substituted wholly or in 
part for, the so-called red, yellow, brown, and purple coal-tar colors and for 
the further reason that they contained an added poisonous or deleterious ingre- 
dient, to wit, arsenic, which might render them injurious to health.
On May 31, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the products be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.