NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1944)

Federal Treacle Cemmissieia Pocket COMPLAINTS The Federal Trade Commission issued no complaints last week. CEASE AND DESIST ORDERS The Commission issued the following cease and desist orders last week: Detroit Soda Products Company, Wyandotte, Michigan, pack¬ ing and selling a baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) designated “Crystal Brand Baking Soda,” recommended for use as a remedy for various human ailments as well as for other purposes, and Aarons, Sill & Caron, Inc., Detroit, an advertising agency dis¬ seminating advertisements of the product, have been ordered to cease and desist from misrepresentations of the product. (5037) Drug Profits, Inc., Ravenswood, W. Va., selling and distribut¬ ing medicinal preparations designated “Phalene” and “Burtone,” has been ordered to cease and desist from false advertising and misrepresentation of the preparations. (4893) Preparatory Training Institute, 55 North Clinton Avenue, Trenton, N. J., engaged in the sale and distribution of courses of study and instruction intended for preparing students for exami¬ nations for Civil Service positions, has been ordered to cease and desist from misrepresentation. (4453) Rex Diathermy Corp., 901 First Court, Brooklyn, manufactur¬ ing, renting, selling and distributing a device designated “Rex Diathermy Machine,” has been ordered to cease and desist from false advertising and misrepresentation. (5145) Rich & Company, 270 West 39th Street, New York, manufac¬ turing and selling women’s 3uits and other garments composed in whole or in part of wool, have been ordered to cease and desist from violation of the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. The Commission finds that the respondents have violated the Act and the rules and regulations by failing to affix to their products the proper stamps, labels, or other means of identification required bv the Act. (5144) C. H. Stennnons Manufacturing Co. and as Airflow ArchEzur Co., 1024 McGee Street, Kansas City. Missouri, manufac¬ turing and selling arch supports designated “Airflow Arch-Ezurs,” has been ordered to cease and desist from misrepresentation of its product. (4882) Vacu-Matic Carburetor Co., Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, manu¬ facturing and selling a mechanical device designated “Vacu-matic” for attachment to automobile engines for the purported purpose of saving gasoline and otherwise improving engine performance, has been ordered to cease and desist from misrepresentation of the product. (3388) STIPULATIONS During the past week the Commission has announced the fol¬ lowing stipulations: Anistutz Hatcheries, with hatcheries located at Celina, Coldwater, New Bremen, Minster, Medina, Orrville and Canton, Ohio, and Frankenmuth, Mich., have entered into a stipulation to cease the use in their advertising or trade literature of statements such as “Baby Chicks from R. O. P. Pedigreed Males,” “R. O. P. Pedi¬ gree Sired,” “R. O. P. Enriched Baby Chicks” or similar termin¬ ology tending to convey the impression that such chicks are sired by U. S. R. O. P. males; representing by use of “R. O. P.” ter¬ minology that the males used for mating are “individually banded” or other implications that the respondents participate in the National Poultry Improvement Plan, and that their hatcheries are U. S. Approved hatcheries, unless and until such time as their operations actually are conducted under such plan and meet all its requirements. (3850) ^ Arcady Farms Milling Co., 223 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, selling a dry dog food preparation designated "Arcady Dog Ration,” has stipulated that in the dissemination of its ad¬ vertising it will cease representing that its product or any other dry dog food preparation of substantially the same composition contains meat. (03223) Babcock’s Hatchery, Ithaca, New York, selling and distribut¬ ing baby chicks, has entered into a stipulation to cease and desist from use of the terms “100% Pullorum Clean” or “Pullorum Clean and from use of any similar term or representation tend¬ ing to convey the belief that the flocks producing chicks sold by him have been tested for pullorum disease and approved by any official State agency having responsibility under the National Poultry Improvement Plan for the accuracy of such testing (3854) Fashion Jewelry Sales, 1617 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado, selling and distributing novelty jewelry, has entered into a stipu¬ lation in which he agrees to cease use of statements, such as “Astonishing ring values priced to you at a fraction of their worth” or other representations tending to convey the impression that the sale price of the articles is substantially less than that for which articles of like value are customarily sold ; representing that the sale price of articles of jewelry is maintained because of ceiling prices set on such articles by the Office of Price Administra¬ tion when in fact there is no such ceiling price; use of such words as "replica diamonds” as descriptive of products not in fact true reproductions of the gems named, and from use of the word “stone” or “stones” in referring to insets that are not in fact stones, as that term is commonly understood in the jewelrv trade. (3856) General Fur Manufacturing Company, 48 West 27th Street, New York, selling and distributing fur garments, has entered into a stipulation. (3858) Kroger Grocery & Baking Company, Cincinnati, and Ralph H. Jones Co., Carew Tower, Cincinnati, an advertising agency preparing advertisements for the products of the Kroger Company, have entered into a stipulation in which they agree to cease and desist from representing that Kroger’s Clock Bread has a tonic effect upon the nerves; that it will correct dietary deficiencies or supply all the necessary body-building food elements, or that the bread contains any “supercharge” health factors. (03222) Albert Lea Foundry Company and Jack K. Heimann, trad¬ ing as The Heimann Company, both of Albert Lea, Minn., each engaged in the sale of a device designated “Konver-To-Kol” for use in converting oil burning heating units to coal burning units, have entered into a stipulation in which they agree to cease and desist from representing that the device or any other device of similar construction will burn all types and sizes of coal efficiency or that it will operate efficiently in any type of heating plant'; from the use of any representation conveying the belief that all types of coal may be burned by using such a device without pro¬ ducing “bulky ashes” or ashes; from representing, by use of the statement “increased operating efficiency reduces tonnage of com¬ parative hand-fired consumption” or by any other statement of similar implication, that oil burning furnaces equipped with such July 7, 1944-225