Show 1 5 I 1 MAR MARKET KEr 16 15 q k INVADED BY BYr r STINNES C German Financier Offers A Rolls Rails il fOl for S Sale le at Lower 1 fe Th Than n Local Prices t f I W YO YORK K Feb 3 By Associated The Tho name of ot Hugo Stinnes Stinnes- ono to conjure With in Germany has Germany has 1 Smashed its way into Wall Nall street Big business particularly the steel industry is Interested and is asking if it Stinnes has haa designs upon the commercial com corn mercial and industrial activities of ot ott t this ls country Various reports have havo come to the United States concerning plans of tI the e German Croesus to extend his in interests in- in tests to this country where he has heretofore been little known But the first concrete evidences of his plans came came yesterday w with the tho announcement announce announce- announce announce- nn ment merit th that it he was negotiating with several Amerl American an r railroads for the sale of tons of German rails rails ralls- at a n price including freight about 2 25 a ton less than the current American price of 40 A mere tons is a relatively small offering worth north less than a half halt million dollars at Stinnes' Stinnes price But Dut It was pointed out it is a very fair fall sized initial offering TIME WILL TELL W Whether ether Stinnes will follow up his invasion of American m markets by efforts to acquire control of American AmerIcan Amer Artier ican industries is a a. a question that time alone can solve The United States Is one of the few countries in inthe the tho development of f which he has apparently taken no hand There have been reports that Stinnes was contemplating a visit to the United States to meet American capitalists but no date was set for the visit Credited with controlling nt oIling 8 marks of capital and with being tho the most powerful figure in industrially industrially In- In and politically in Germany Stinnes rode to the crest of ot his power during the war Ho He it was say his enemies who conceived the idea of deporting Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian glan workers to Germany and who headed the German interests that Belgian mines and other resources during the occupation I 1 He also was WIlS reported to have made i fabulous sums by the filling of muni- muni I 1 ti tion n a an and other the government over me t contracts Even before the w war wartin r. r thi wa Yvan urn ro roIn tin In ln the the- biggest iron and co coal l figure lg but It was not until oil tho Germany leu he he he- close of th the world struggle gle t that scale began reaching out on a large largo for other fields to conquer DAILY EVENTS Reports of his purchases of ot his consolidations and reorganizations almost d dally y matter of then ihen be became ame a chronicling In the newspapers ne ShIpyards Shipyards Ship ShIp- i yards in Sweden mines In Austria Denmark Denmark Denmark Den Den- and Sweden steel plants In mark oil wells in Sou South th Am America streetcars streetcars street street- newspapers paper mills hotels cars shoe shoo factories aniline dye works works works- motion picture pre producing toeing the grist fo for plans plans all all be became ame Stinnes mill In one of the latest r reports ports ho Ru Russian Russian Rus Rus- to tho the figured as a pawnbroker sian soviet government the tho st story ry had advanced Lenin a being that he ho n large sum sum on the Russian crown crow jewe jewels coalmine coal coalmine Stinnes came of or a family of out cut mine operators but had struck earl early for himself with his share of the family fortune and and soon soon became allied with Thyssen then ten tho German ore and steel king Icing He broke broko with Thyssen shortly before the war var however however v ho how how- ever and in a few years had far fir outstripped his former partner His methods are similar to those of American financiers obtaining control Control con con- of vanous coordinated Industries not bv by flat purchase but b by obtain ing irig control of a majority of the stock and and using his vast wealth and credit I constantly for further expansion He is credited with control of the peoples people's party which now dominates Germany and has been a prominent figure in reparations negotiations with the allies He lie Is is an object of bitter attack by the socialists but ho hois hois hois I is popular with the tho more moro conservative conservative conservative conserva conserva- tive part of ot the people |