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Show UTAH RESPONDS 10 REQUEST FDR FLOUR Seven Cars Are Offered Government for Use of Nation's Allies. 7he response of the citizens of Utah to the appeal of the state food administrator for their excess wheat and flour has been in line with Utah's answer to all patriotic pa-triotic appeals generous, whole-hearted i and Immediate. The plea for the flour was made Sunday and already the first I fruits of the campaign are as follows: From the Heber City mills came two cars of flour, already sacked in jute bags; from the People's Roller mills at Midway Mid-way came another car of flour; from the Fillmore Roller mills at Fillmore still another car; from the West Jordan Milling Mill-ing company of Mid vale another car; from the Tooele City Milling company of Tooele, two whole cars, making the splendid splen-did total of "seven cars, 420,000 pounds of flour, all sacked and ready for Immediate shipment under the orders of the food administrator in Washnigton. While the response from the millers has exceeded Mr. A rmstrong's best expectations, ex-pectations, it is now the lime for all retailers re-tailers and householders to offer their surplus flour. Simply notify the food administrator ad-ministrator by card or telephone and he will immediately arrange the details of the shipment. The millers, too, are urged to buy all the surplus wheat in their neigh bo riiood and start their mills to grinding it for the government's account. Mills may use their own forty-eight or ninety-eight -pound sacks if they prefer, or they may notify the food administrator, who will gladly assist them in securing jute sacks. It is estimated that there must be between be-tween twenty-five and fifty carloads of flour in excess of the needs here in Utah, and the wheat situation is the most serious seri-ous factor in the food supply of the allied al-lied countries. Already Utah has furnished fur-nished seven carloads in less than three days. The remainder should come from the householders, and at once. Every extra twenty-four or forty-eight-pound sack that can be spared should be put at the food administrator's disposal, for once collected and put into the cars it is directly direct-ly on its way to stem the rising waves, of starvation "over there' |