Show LUMBER SHORTAGE CAUSES MEN TO GO GOI I Labor Officer Makes Appeal v to City Commissioners For Aid Reported Impossibility of ot purchasing purchasing ing building materials Is 13 taking employment cm- cm from hundreds of or m men n and causing scores to leave leavo the tho city ic- ic cording to Otto E. E Asbridge who addressed addressed ad- ad dressed the city commission on behalf of ot a a. committee of or citizens yesterday esterday n morning or n i n g. g Mr Asbridge asked tho the commission to tako take some action to relieve tho the sit situation situation sit sit- lt- lt W. W H H. Folland city attorney was instructed to confer with Mr tr and to determine what action the commission can take or whore tho the thoI reme remedy lies if It not in the city I ties I Mr Ir Asbridge declared It Is 18 Impossible Impossible Im Ira- possible to bu buy lumber as liS the lumber lumberyards lumberyards yards ards are aro refusing to sell Other necessary for fOt building and Im Improvement Improvement tin tin- provement are said Bald to be able It W was S estimated by Mr that more than 2000 men are out of oC work ork and that upward of or COO s skilled building trades men have left leCt the tho city Representing the Service Star Legion Leilon Mrs Alleen Aileen M M. r. r Brayton presented pro pro- a petition to the commission asking that provision be made mado for lIstIng listing listing list lIst- ing Ing- the tho graves of or soldiers who are aro buried burled in City cemetery Mrs Mr Brayton f said ald lists aro are kept In pra practically all other cemeteries and without them patriotic organizations find it Impossible Impossible Im ira- possible to honor the tho graves with flowers flow flow- ors ore on Memorial da day |