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Show Department Stores May Aid Distribution of Army Food IT IS POSSIBLE that Salt Lakers may be given their opportunity op-portunity to purchase the surplus sur-plus army food stores shortly to be released through the department depart-ment stores of the city. This became be-came known yesterdav when a telegram tel-egram from Xew York, saying that the stores there womM handle these products at cost, promoted inquiries j anion? the local merchants. W. C. Lewis, manager of Walker PJrothe-? Lrv Good fompany, -aid e ' rda v 1 1ia t v, I; He he had re-eeived re-eeived no wort as to ie manner in which t he so f oodrdu f i's will be ditr:buted, his rn-r.panv would be happy To ser e the public as distributing dis-tributing agent for the government. govern-ment. J Henry X. Byrne, managing director di-rector of the Keith-O'Brien com-pany. com-pany. expected home from the eat tomorrow with more d.dinit information as to the pnsMbiiitv of such action by the department stores. It is pointed out that the department de-partment stores would afford au ef. ficient agency for handling the ood. The stores in Xew "Vorl have announced thev will tell the go-, ernment merchandise at Oo-I M.thnut charge fr th-ir servie.V the Walker Brother, , ,r company v.n.jhl lik,., .-services .-services gratuitously in tl7i mal'-ter mal'-ter ,:, oruer to help ,ri (, i somewhat, at least, the r, ,t high cost of living. present |