Name in Cell

Great names are faces. To read "MUSSOLINI" is to receive a potent visual impression. Last week Germans read "STINNES," and before them arose an unforgettable face (See Cut).

The scare heads said STINNES IN JAIL. That was only literally true. In a clean Berlin cell sat only Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr. -not his late father STINNES, the titan who turned his coal and iron into fleets of ships, miles of factories, myriads of newspaper presses -all, all HIS (TIME, April 21, 1924). In those mighty days STINNES was the Despot of German industry and the Bogey Man of Europe. . . .

Last week Stinnes sat in a cell. He did not want to get out. Swindled people wanted to get in -to smash the runt!

Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr. is charged with supplying sharpsters with funds whereby a bond swindle involving several million marks was attempted. Clumsy, they falsified twice as many bonds of a certain series as were ever issued. Some people can see through a racket as clever as that. In cell sat Stinnes. He had been obliged to resign as president of 17 Stinnes companies in which U. S. investors have a stake of $25,000,000.