Show JURORS DECIDE AGAINST MILLERS Bleached Flour Adulterated and Not Allowed in Inter Interstate Interstate state Commerce Kansas KanNe City Mo July 6 We the tile Jury find that the flour noised was wa adulterated We Vc the jury jur find that the flour seized was mIsbranded Thee The two verdicts returned In Inthe Inthe inthe o the federal court here today IOda by the Jury that for more moro than five weeks had listened to testimony for and against the charge that the govern government government ment mont that sacks of flour bleached and sold by b the Lexington Mill IJU Ele Elevator Elevator Elevator vator company of Lexington ton Neb and seized seised by b the government white while In the possession pone lon of the purchaser pu r a groo grocer r rat at Castle Mo 10 were adulterated and misbranded The verdict returned after aCter seven hours of deliberation was wall a complete victory for th the government which prosecuted the suit Suder der the national nal pure food and drug dru act The government charged char ed that the flour was wae adulterated in that it was bleached by tho the Alsop process which makes use of nitrogen peroxide in bleaching flour Misbranding was charged In that the flour seized was labeled fancy the gov go v contended It was not because e It was vas wa not made from a first grade hard winter wheat Bruc Bruce Elliott chief chlof counsel for the o millers made the Ute following statement after the jury had returned return eo ThIs Thin ease case was not one that should o have been tried by bJ a jury I called i personally on President Taft TaCt and as assured eared him all the millers desired de was wasa a fair fall test case The President assured me inc the mil tall lers lets would not be harried and that a fair test teet should be had Immediately thereafter under orders of the ney general these seizures began In different parts of or the country We Continued on Page Inae Two 10 I JURORS DECIDE AGAINST MILLERS Continued from Ince Inge I Je One started out to defend the oases on tho the assumption that the government would permit thorn thom to be bo tried before a ref referee oreo areo President Pre Roosevelt appointed a aboard aboard aboard board of scientific men for Just such purposes and tho the board has settled many cases oases that came under the pure puro food rood law such for Instance as BS the benzoate of or soda case But when this case came to trial the attorney gen oral refused to let lot this board act and Insisted upon a Jury jur trial Attorneys for the millers will file 1110 filea a motion for tor a new trial within twenty enty days Arguments on it will be heard by Judge McPherson about September 1 Millers ay say that the bleached flour decision will handicap the farmers ot or the tho southwest to the extent of oC from fifteen to eighteen million dollars a year ear They say that tho old differential of oC five cents a bushel in vogue In Chicago and St Louis markets will soon reappear They Thoy further say that the farmers ot of Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Ne braska will lose five cents a bushel on their present pre ent crop grop and that hard win tar ter wheat soon will bo be soiling selling at 26 si cents a bushel less loss than at present Al Already Already Already ready millers are considering the es os of bleaching stations In Instates instates states where tho the use ulle of bleached flour Is not prohibited Thus they say they may avoid the Interstate commerce law |