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Problems 11. Europe's Food Outlook Grows More Serious Nazis Present Many Excuses For Cutting Of Bread And Meat Rations 1 llisfe! fePfe urt I Retailers May Open Branch Neighborhood Stores, Chains Change Policies The following article Is con tV I DmiN6 Upon Bed Room I At Room IgV II iU Lfcjlrt Ajly Uo Room Ultra-modern four-family flat at 4405-07 Floriss place, with tile baths, hardwood floors, separate heating plants, sold to Mrs. O. Geise, for a client of Slonim Real Estate by the Hilmer-Dutton Real Estate who are now managing the. building.

densed from a symposium on wartime changes in real estate use now being published by the National Institute of Real Estate Brokers, specialized branch of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. II m- BE I I Tin I III ill nfll 11 IT Tli I Prospect of coming lack of rub ber for war workers' cars has putt new strings upon the location of war Home at 6321 Pershing avenue, recently purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Johansen from Mrs.

Harold W. Woodward. It contains reception hall, living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry on the first floor; three bedrooms and bath on the second floor and two bedrooms and bath on the third. The site, measures 53 by 182 feet. Edward L.

Bakewell acted for both parties. W' Drawing and floor plan of a typical small ranch type house which is being displayed this week at the Greater St. Louis Flower and Garden Show by the Cyrus Crane Willmore, Inc. This home has been built on a 65x70-foot plot in the building in the east wing of the Arena. A.

F. Arthur Stauder were the architects and Richard Higgenbotham the builder. Stephen Beer was the landscape artist. A similar ranch type home is now being completed in the new ranch house section of St. Louis Hills.

Firm Making Prefabricated Houses To Expand Output i HEun Hil is Situated on a one and one-half acre tract this home at 21 Old Westbury drive was recently purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Ruprecht from Henry Ffeffle. It contains living room, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, sunroom, two bedrooms and bath on first floor; three bedrooms and bath on the second floor.

Ruprecht is secretary-treasurer of the Ruprecht Building Materials Co. The transaction was handled by the Holly Hills industries. This change means a. shift of industrial expansion toward localities where there is existing transportation for labor, and a possible tendency toward its centralization near large metropolitan centers pools of skilled labor. War industry Is making every, manufacturing plant concerned look for space for expansion.

Contrariwise, great producers of civilian goods, forced to stop everything but replacement work, are in the real estate market also. They must fintf narrower quarters. Contraction of automobile use 1 bringing a wholly new location problem to all retail merchandising that, is dependent upon an automobile-borne clientele. Chain stores ara revising their location policies. With civilian home building coming to a stop, good houses listed for sale are getting scarcer, a of a rising residential market.

Aa always during an inflationary period, investment buying of real estate is increasing in importance. Chain grocery stores, formerly wanting new construction tailored to fit, are now ready to consider Kealty Co. .1 By United Press. German radios broadcast thousands of words of propaganda today in an attempt to explain why it had been necessary announce yesterday reductions in the bread, meat and fat rations effective April 6. At the same time there were reports from all over Europe of conditions which indicated a serious intensification of the food and transportation difficulties throughout German-occupied Europe and adjacent countries.

A German radio dispatch from Copenhagen, Denmark, said severe cold continued in Denmark, that storms raged in Copenhagen, that all city traffic had been halted there and that distribution of sup-plie wsas carried out only with the greatest difficulty. It was added that half of Denmark's deer, rabbits, reindeer, pheasants and partridges had been killed by cold. Radio Berne reported from Stockholm that blizzards had practically stopped all railroad and highway transportation there. 23 Tct. Less Bread.

Eulraria trported a 25 per cent reduction in its bread ration to 10.58 ounces a day. The German radio said. The Rumanian agriculture minister -csigned and the British radio, heard in New York by C. B. said he had quit in protest against German demands for more Rumanian wheat.

Russia chared that In Czechoslovakia the Germans had forced peasants to hand over grain they had reserced for spring sowing. Vichy France announced Marshal Henri Philippe Petain would visit Clermont Ferrand Sunday to attend a congress and tha Pierre Caziot, his agriculture minister, would oppeal to peasants to plant more crops this season and to hand over for eneral distribute jn all their remaining stocks of wheat. Wheat Ration Cut. Sweden announced Monday a re-curtion in the wneat ration from abut fifteen ounces to a little les than twelve ounces. The American Swedish news exchange reported in Nrw York.

The German ration reduction Is from 4 95 to 4 4 ounces a week for It-- i. aV, The Bank Building Equipment Corp. of America has signed a long-term lease on property owned by the Western Foundry Sash Weight Co. at 7500 South Broadway, for expansion purposes. The property consists of three buildings in the block bounded by Broadway, Koeln, Stein and Water streets, containing approximately 50.000 square feet of floor space, in addition to the vacant ground, which will be used for storage purposes.

The building Is served by 300 feet of Missouri Pacific trackage along Water street. Approximately will be spent in remodeling the building before the plant goes into production of demountable prefabricated houses and other war materials. A heating system, new concrete floors and other improvements will be added. Approximately 200 persons will be employed in the new plant as soon as the proper machinery is installed. The Bank Building company's main office and plant are located at Ninth and Sidney streets.

Officers of the company are: J. B. Gander, president; L. J. Orabka, executive vice-president, and J.

M. Boyd, secretary-treasurer. Both the lessor and lessee in the negotiations were represented by Arthur H. Fuldner, manager of the commercial leasing department of Oreon E. R.

G. Scott. The Western Foundry company closed down its business last fall. The Brentwood Theater at 2529 Brentwood boulevard, which had its formal opening last Saturday night. The site is 100 by 300 feet on the west side of Brentwood boulevard and was purchased from Charles Jablonsky by the Brentwood Theater Corp.

which owns the theater. Herman Illmer is co-owner and manager. The Stamm Construction Co. supervised the construction. 25-Acre Plot Sold By Armbruster Co.

I John H. Armbruster realtors, of 8854 St. Charles road, report the sale of 25 acres at Clayton and Baxter roads for the account of David J. Massa. president of Wells-ton Bottling Works, to Frank E.

Zykan. Osage Auto Ajjcncv Enters Realty Field Food Market Leases Page Blvd. Building The Hoffman Food Market has leased the store building at 5282 Page boulevard from Eugene and Gilbert Connor. The property was improved prior to occupancy by the lessee. Both parties in the transaction were represented by the Breitt Naumer Realty Co.

Painted Stucco Walls. Paint applied to stucco or concrete aids in making walls of this material watertight. Unless painted, the porousness of stucco and concrete, may induce dampness, making the home unhealthful. Furniture Firm Leases Building On Easton Ave. New bungalow at 816 Blossom lane, purchased by Mr.

and Mrs. Howard D. Niesen, from Mr. and Mrs. Clay Barritt.

Dimmitt-Rickhoff-Bayer Real Estate handled the location in existing buildings, are ready to look over the vacated automobile showrooms, for example. Prices for well located store properties are stiffening. Better prices in industrial property are bringing; out more sellers. Capital is plentiful for the purchase of real estate. These are some straws in the wind.

What is actually taking place Is transition in the type of real estate negotiations. REAL ESTATE Takes New Quarters The office of L. L. Seeman. loan correspondent for Investors Syndicate, has been moved from the eleventh floor of the Boatman's Bank Building, to the fifteenth floor.

Husband Brought Secretary Into Home, Actress Says REAL ESTATE Leo Julius and Maurice Paulette, who have operated the Studebaker agency at 4012 South Broadway for the past eight years, have entered the real estate field, due to the wartime restrictions on new car production and tire sales. They report a brisk demand for residential and investment properties. A. J. Lebbing, with twenty-five years of real estate experience, is office'and sales manager.

He will be assisted by the entire sales force of the auto agency. REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE LOANS HOLLYWOOD. March 20. (TJ. Actress Juliets Compton stopped objecting to her husband bringing his pretty secretary.

Sheila Sutton, 23, home to live with them because bread. 14 to 10.53 ounces for meat! she knew he would bring her any A TITLE 6 Construction The Glik-Watell Real Estate Co. reports the leasing of the three-story building at 5960 Easton avenue, in the heart of the Wcllston district, to Smith's Empire Furniture Co. The building is of steel and concrete and has been thoroughly modernized. It contains three floors, mezzanine and basement, with both passenger and freight elevators.

The plot measures 50 by 223 feet. The lease was made for the James E. Powers estate, represented in the negotiations by the trust department of the Mississippi Valley Trust to the furniture company, of which Theodore Smith is president, whom Gilk-Watell represented. A few months ago Smith's Empire Furniture Co. purchased property at 5956-58 Easton, immediately adjoining the Powers building on the east.

This building contains two stores, and suite of offices on the second floor. This parcel also has a frontage of 50 feet and a depth of 223 feet. Both plots together provide a large parking area. DOLAN CAN SELL YOUR PROPERTY We have Immediate buyers for many types of homes, flats, apartments and other properties in St. Louis and County.

For good price and quick results LIST WITH DOLAN. Call DOLAN CO. ready for Miss Sutton when Bartram came to Hollywood. "I wrote that letter after others in which I objected to Miss Sutton coming with Mr. Bartram," she told the court.

"I didn't object any more because I knew It wouldn't do any good Mr. Bartram had told me he was bringing her anyway." Bartram testified earlier that Miss Compton, a Georgia girl, resembled Scarlett O'Hara, the Georgia heroine of "Gone With the Wind." He was asked under cross-examination why he had addressed Miss Compton as "Dear Scarlett" in a letter. "It was really uncanny how the characters of Scarlett and Melanie (her sister) fitted my wife and her sister, Bartram said. and 9 4 to 2( ounces for fats. Grrman propaganda broadcasts attributed the reduction to unfavored weather conditions for two cars.

increase of food requirements for soldiers and armament workers, employment cf 2.500.000 foreign workers in Germany and necessity for sending food to industrial areas cf ocupied territories and Finland. It will be asurprise to those who have read details of Germany stripping occupied countries of almost everything movable, that it is sending food to them. INVESTMENT PROPERTIES Moorlands Drive; built 1940 Three efficiencies and two stores 5S0I Botanical ave. $7000 6183 Pershing, 5x6 4-Family, Clayton 4-Family, Pasadena Hills 8007 Forsythe CA. 4560 MOST UNUSUAL YES way.

Miss Compton testified in her divorce action. Miss Compton has charged that her husband, James Bartram, 48, wealthy, retired Australian businessman educated at Oxford, had associated indiscreetly with Miss Sutton. In a contested action she demanded a divorce and custody of their 14-year-old daughter. She was called for cross-examination yesterday to Identify a letter she had written to Bartram whUe he was in England in 1938. In that correspondence she said a room was 50 D.UTONA DR.

This In a home dUtinrtlon that will please the most discriminating bayer. A living room 1.1x3S witn hand-eat stene fireplaee, indirect lighting. Hlland 2610 6401 Manchester A dining roam I4il with a charming triple bay window to the south, and many LACLEDE BOND MORTGAGE CO. 8030 Forsythe PA. 3300 ing recovery of aporoximatelv $20- 000 invested in the company.

A par other unasaal features that cannot be de tcribed; phone WFNZI.ICK SAIFS A MANAGEMENT INC. For card of admission, NE. SMXI. KailwaT Restrictsons. ROME.

March 20. (Italian broadcast recorded by United Press in New York.) Drastic restrictions on railway traffic will become effective April 1. the ministry of communications announced today. The reFtnctions will include a further reduction in the number of trains, abolition of sleeping and dining cars except on international lines and of first class tial audit disclosed shortages of at least $80,000. REAL ESTATE LOANS REAL ESTATE ff "I DO DEFENSE WORK- City Workers' Meeting A second meeting of city employes interested in joining the C.

I. O. United Construction Workers Union will be held March 26 at 3721 Olive street, the home of Frank Leonard, a water rates department employe. The home also serves as a with Safety EACH ACCOUNT INSURED TO $5,000 "I take pride in doing my work well as many others do! White-law Terry is doing a swell job. too.

in satisfying home seekers through choice listings of homes and locations. Recently they sold me my home I'm more than satisfied. That's why I advise home seekers to see Whitelaw Terry before buying Arnold J. Fleer Suspended By Realty Exchange The St. Louis Real Estate Exchange has suspended Arnold J.

Fleer, missing vice-president and treasurer of the closed Knickmeyer-Fleer Realty Investment according to Clarence M. Turley, president of the exchange. Peter M. Kwentus, contractor-real estate dealer, who has been missing for more than a month following litigation over failure to build a new home for a client who had made a down payment, was ordered to show cause why he should not be suspended, Turley said. Fleer has been missing for more than six weeks.

The Knickmeyer-Fleer firm closed January 31, and went Into the hands of a temporary receiver February 15. The receivership order followed a suit by a stockholder, August W. Geise, seek meeting place for the Republican Funds Mar It Withdraw! Usual Uettce P.duU SI Starts an iccouat JUUMr MIDWEST SAVINGS LOAN ASSOCIATION lOt N. 7th. St.

Ltwis. CE. 8019 Workers Club of the Eighth Precinct, Seventeenth Ward. Only thirty-five, or 1 per cent of the 3,500 city employes eligible to join, attended the first organization meeting March 11. Unusual In Every Respect This SMARTLY STYLED HOME OF Modified NEW ORLEANS Design AT 348 N.

FORSYTHE BLVD. IN Claijton Gardens Typical of Southern styles is this newly-constructed home, mod-ernly treated throughout. A few of the more prominent features are the ornamental iron porch with glass brick entrance; carnival rathskeller; beautiful living room with fireplace and large mirror; attractive dining and breakfast rooms; latest designed kitchen; four bedrooms with picture windows; baths; beautifully decorated throughout. See this home today I SHAW FRANCIS, Inc. Axis Cct Busier On Libyan Front CAIRO.

March 20. (U. Axis forces in Libya increased patrol activity yesterday and shelled British patrols west of El Gazala, a Middle East communique said today. "Considerable" movement had been observed southwest of Derna between Tmimi and Mekili. "Gar columns continued reconnaissance raids.

the communique said. "The forward areas were covered by our fighter plane sweeps, and there was comparatively little enemy air activity." REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE A. WHITELAW TERRY REAL ESTATE CO. 113 N. 7th MA.

2415 8025 Forsythe CA. 2430 The experience rained In oar 55 Tears tf Snrreasfnl dealings enables ns ta completely understand Realty Values Our Servica means much ta you. REAL ESTAfE REAL ESTATE -tqhbdero- aVMCfc FORSYTHE AND MARYLAND CAbany 2744 ID Inspect Our High-Class Villa Type Homes In ARTHUR A Nothing Would Please Her More Than to Own a Home in St. Try as you may, it will be no simple matter to visualize the entire beauty and value of the homes we come out and see for yourself. LOANS 7th and Chestnut.

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