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Van Sweringen Creditor Sues Ball for $6,000,000 By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 6.-A Cleveland creditor of the late O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen sought $6,000,000 today from George A. Ball, Muncie industrialist, who succored the bachelor brothers in 1935 when they were losing control of their railroad realm. Ohio's Banking Department, as liquidating agent for the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland, filed the suit in Federal Court here. It charged Ball wrongfully acquired and sold 55 per cent of the common stock of Midamerica Corp. which had been assigned the Van Sweringens under certain conditions and said the stock should have gone to the creditors Ball and George A. Tomlinson, Great Lakes ship operator, set up Midamerica to acquire controlling Van Sweringen stocks when New York bankers auctioned them five years ago to help satisfy defaulted loans.