1214. Adulteration of  flour.    U.   S.  v.  65  Bags  of Flour   (and  3  other  seizure
actions against flour). Default decrees of condemnation and destruc- 
tion. (F. D. C. Nos. 2420, 2455, 2553, 2736. Sample Nos. 1387-E to 1390-E, 
incl., 9863-E, 24126-E, 28827-E.)
Between July 25 and September 3, 1940, the United States attorneys for the 
Western District of Virginia, the Northern District of Florida, the Eastern Dis- 
trict of North Carolina, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania filed libels 
against 65 bags of flour at Danville, Va.; 130 bags at Pensacola, Fla.; 254 bags 
at Wilson, N. C.; and 32 sacks at Lancaster, Pa., alleging that the article had 
been shipped in interstate commerce within the period from April 20 to May 
29, 1940, by the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. from Springfield, Ill.; Astoria, Oreg.; 
Enid, Okla.; and Buffalo, N. Y.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance. The article was labeled in 
part variously: "Pillsbury's Springmor [or "H. R," "Fine Ground Whole Wheat," 
"A. A. Cake," or "Reform"] Flour" ; or "Pillsbury's Protector Fir."
Between September 4 and October 15, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judg- 
ments of condemnation were entered. The lots seized at Lancaster, Pa.; Dan- 
ville, Va.; and Pensacola, Fla., were ordered destroyed. The lot located at 
Wilson, N. C, was ordered destroyed after 30 days unless taken down under 
bond by the owner, and it subsequently was destroyed in accordance with this 
order.