14782. Adulteration of walnuts. IT. S. v. 34 Bass of Walnuts. Default de- 
cree   of   condemnation,  forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   No.
17465.    I.  S. No. 340-r.    S. No. E-4343.)
On April 24, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 34 bags of walnuts in shell, at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by Argirios Nikoloulias, from Patras, Greece, 
on or about August 14, 1921, and transported from a foreign country into the 
State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
¦drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable 
?substance.
On February 17, 1925, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.