Indiana daily times., 1921-04-22
NEWS is NAMED
CO-DEFENDANT
IN 100000 SUIT
Conspiracy Charged to Sway
Public Mind and Intimi-
date Officials.
BROUGHT BY C. C. SHIPP

CudTSluS Iudt d conspiracy was
entered into by the Indianapolis
News Publishing Company, the Hem
kel Publishing Company, Delavan
Smith, Louis Rowland, Richard
Smith, William H. Blodgett, Jesse E.
Eschbach, Walter J. Twiname and
William F. King for the alleged pur-
pose Of contriving a scheme and
plan of publicity to incite such con-
dition of the public mind" and also
to create an impression of a trial
court in Marion County as well as
to cause certain public officials to
shrink from their performances of
duty to avoid the turmoil and vio-
lence which the publications invited"
Clarence c. Shipp of C. C. Shipp &
Co., producers and manufacturers Of
heating and ventilating devices and
equipment for public buildings and
schools, today filed civil action be-
fore Judge Harry Chamberlin of the
Marion County Circuit Court asking
for 100000 against the Indianapolis
News and the other alleged con-
spirators.
SECOND SUIT FILED ~ 'ii
BY SHIPP.
This suit is the result Of an apparent
determination Of Mr.. Shipp to protect
his interests in another suit filed in
the Marion County Circuit Court, March
10, 1921, against the members of the
department of inspection and supervision
Of public offices and others including
Jesse E. Eschbach and Walter j.
Twiname.
In the former suit, Mr.. Shipp seeks
to determine the validity of certain
pretended rules and regulations of the
department of supervision and inspection
of public offices and OF certain usages
and practices hereunder" and Ito have
the same declared ultra vires."
Mr.. Shipp claims in his 100000 damage
suit filed today that his former suit LIS
still pending in the Marion County
Circuit court and claims that The In
dianapous News, Delavan Smith and
others have conspired to injure the plain
tiff by "a scheme and plan Of publicity
to create the impression on the mind Of
the court before whom causes were
pending to which this plaintiff was a
party, that the court could not decide
the matter before it but the ore way
and against fhe plaintiff without giying
rise to such state of suspicion as to the
integrity and fairness OF the courts
purposes and motives as might engender
shrinking on the part of the court
from its true sense Of duty"
SAYS COURT
ONLY RECOURSE.
In his damage suit Mr.. Shipp claims
that he is wholly deprived of and ex-
cluded from any agency to meet and coun-
teract the influences of the Indianapolis
News, which has determined to and set
out TO injure and destroy the reputation
and character, the civil right and worth
and value Of the property of this plaintiff
and, therefore, plaintiff has no lawful re-
course other than the courts and to those
agencies Of the law which Government
has provided to protect the weak and
helpless against the expressions and
wrongs Of the powerful and strong"
1he complaint, which contains 149
pages and which was prepared by VIII
liam V. Rocker as counsel for Mr. Ships
lecites more than two dozen alleged avert
acts entered into by the Indianapolis
News and the other defendants to injure
the plaintiff.
The suit again reveals the hidden own
ership of the News during the lifetime
of the late Charles Warren Fairbanks
and shows that this secret ownership
was not publicly revealed until after the
death Of the former Vice President
1t is stated In the suit that 1.-The In
dianapolis News Publishing Company is
a corporation of great wealth and vast
resources engaged in the collection and
dissemination of news and, likewise.
when said Indianapolis News is so in
clined, libel, calumny, cbloquy and de-
traction"
DETAILS SET OUT
IN HIS COMPLAINT
1t is set forth in the complaint thar
when Delavan Smith as an individual was
in control of the Indianapolis News he
designed. created and adopted the sys-
TEN and method of editorial administra-
tion of said newspaper and designed and
fixed the editorial policy and selected and
constituted the staff of editors and re-
porters to carry out and perform the said
system and method of editorial adminis-
tration and to bring about and attain
the conSummatiOn of said editorial poll
Icy; that the said editorial policy was
due to be and it was one of arbitrary
and self asserted mastery over and domi-
nation of men and measures affecting
both alike individuals and society," that
to better attain his said ends, the said
Delavan Smith selected and appointed the