346. Adulteration of flour and rye meal.    U. S. v. 36 Sacks of Flour (and 4 other 
en: seizure   actions   involving:   flour).      Default   decrees   of   condemnation.
• to (F.   D.   C.   Nos.   795.  800L 1057,   1161,   1183.     Sample  Nos.  58098-D,   58099-D, 
58164-D, 58165-D, 58166-D, 58199-D, 83734-D, 83735-D.
Between October 25 and December 23, 1939, the United States attorneys for 
the Districts of Arizona and Oregon filed libels against 46 sacks of flour at 
Tucson, Ariz.; 80 sacks of flour at Clarkdale, Ariz.; 17 sacks of flour at King- 
man, Ariz.; and 69 sacks of flour at Ontario, Oreg., alleging that the article had 
been shipped in interstate commerce between March 18 and October 18, 1939, 
by the Sperry Flour Co. in various shipments from Ogden, Utah, and South 
Vallejo and Los Angeles, Calif.; and charging that it was adulterated in that 
it consisted wholly or in part of a filthy substance. It was labeled variously 
in part: "Hillcrest Bleached Flour Portland Flour Mills Co. of General Mills 
Inc."; "Big Tree Flour Portland Flour Mills Co. Distributors"; "Washburn 
Crosby Gold Medal Medium Rye Meal * * * Manufactured by General Mills 
Inc."; or "Sperry Drifted Snow Flour    *    *    *    Sperry Flour Company."
On February 5, 7, and 28, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.