Show REP 0 O 01 L L Mill MILLS iN LIBEL SUIT SUI I Fight for G 0 O P Leader Leader- Leadership Leadership ship Leade-ship ship Brings Charges of False Statements NEW I EW EV TORN TORK March 26 Rep 26 2 ReI e Ogden L Mills tied fled l jn In his own defense derene Tuesday at tile the opening of ot a trial of ot charges charf of af o criminal libel against him groa gro- Ing out aut of ar o a bitter struggle tor for Re Re- Re Republican R publican leadership In the Fifteenth Silk Slik Stocking assembly district dIstrict lie aes represented by John W Dash I former ambassador to I Britain The Sohn ohn Henry Hammond treasurer of at the Iho Lenox 1 nox trill Hill Republican club IVil Wllliam hans M Id president ot of the club and Ie M lIf Meyer Meyo Insurgent candidate for tor can leadership of ot the th Fifteenth die charged charted that Representative fill caused ej to be b published hd a false report that the th Lenox Stilt Hill Re- Re Republican Republican publican club had offered to In- In Its lIs delegates delegate to the th national convention to vote for tor Johnson It If Johnson Johnon s a local campaign managers would support th the Meyer Chadbourne faction In their tight fight tor for control c of ot the Iho tb Fifteenth district SAYS Representative Mills Mill taking the stand declared the th allegedly libel libel- libelous ous ou report ho he hal had broadcast was s based baaed on Information given him by bv b Samuel Koenig Ko nl chairman of ot the th New ew Tork York county Republican corn com He said however that after arter hat ing heard Meyer te testify tUy denyIng that there thor had bad been ben any an dIckering with wah the tho th Hiram Johnson faction he w was wa willing to say ay Hey Mey- Meyer Myer er was not the tho th man lie o A had mOl meant I I did not Intends Intend to make mak an n chargo Mr Hubs Mill summed up but but just JUHt to give riv publicity to the th motion matlon that had come corn to m rae mo Magistrate Simpson ordered fa t to be b d tomorrow nd said he h would announce his deCision I |