Show PANEl CHOSEN GHOSEN I f FOR R SERVICE IN EVOLUTION HOLM CASE USE Barefoot Boy Draws N Names Prom From Hat Farmers Far Majority ers D DAYTON Tenn July 6 U UP UPA UP- UP A panel anel of f twenty pine citizens of or Rhea county predominately farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers from which the Scopes evolution e tion trial jury will wiil be chosen was wa picked by iy sixteen justices of the peace here iere toda today The n names m s' s were vere drawn from a ahat hat by a small barefoot boy In hi overalls overalls over over- alls ails elected for the the honor honor be because use he was too young young- to o read The panel Is made up of ot seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen farmers in Including one ex ex- ex teacher and one member ex-member of the legislature five including includIng merchants ing 3 a a. member of f the D Dayton city commission one tanner one one ex x- x professor of the University of Tenness Tenness Tennessee Ten Ten- ness ness e c one teacher in the county public schools one ex United ex-United d States State marshal one real estate agent one doctor and andone one teacher an and l farmer By y WILLIAM Jr LOSH United Press Staff Correspondent DAYTON DAYTO Tenn July 6 Dayton Dayton wa waited ted on tiptoe with anxiety for word ord today from e miles across the Cumberland hills hills' which will s say y whether this ex expect expectant ex- ex nt little town is or JS s not riot to be bethe bethe bethe the scene of the Scopes evolution trial John R R. Neal chief of the defense cou counsel sel was vas at Cookeville to file with Federal Judge Conan Gorian application tion for fori an all f which would prevent nt the trial of the young high school teacher from being held here While the purpose of this move by the defense is to remove the tr trIal j from surroundings gs which they reel feel are not calc calculated to Increase the seriousness and dignity of the proceedings Scopes Scopes' counsel base their application for an Injunction on the ground that the state of Tennessee in denying deming John T T. Scopes the right to teach Is la depriving ng him of of his livelihood without due process of law The teacher is charged with teaching evolution In violation o of a Tennessee Tennes Tennes- see statute which forbids Instruction Instruction instruction tion In matters contrary to the letter of f the Bible on on the subject of ot the creation n The town of Dayton nestling In Inthe Inthe Inthe the foothills of the Appala Appalachians has made extensive preparations to stage the trial and receive e the hundreds hundreds hun hun- of visitors the case Is ex expected expected ex- ex to attract The p possibility of an Injunction means w what at promIsed promised promised prom prom- to be the biggest biggest event in Dayton's history past present or future may be taken away If It the petitions for an injunction Continued on page page- 2 TOWN SOON TO KNOW FATE ON EVOLUTION CASE Continued from page 1 are den denied ed the trial will start 1 In the Rhea county courthouse here her Friday Bar President Discusses Law CHATTAN CHATTANOOGA OGA Tenn July 6 AP John AP-John John T T. Cant Cantrill of ot the Chattanooga Bar association has Issued a a. personal statement de declaring tie tie- Glaring daring that the tho Tennessee antievolution antievolution anti anti- evolution law is narrow In it Its scope and does not prohibit th the teaching of evolution lon as' as is generally generally generally gener gener- ally supposed He lie said I 1 do not believe and Ido I Ido do not think that lawyers generally generally gener- gener goner gener ally believe that Professor John T T. Scopes or any other Tennessee Tennesse teacher has actually violated latea tn act by affirmatively teaching thaman that tha man has descended from a a. lower lowe order of animal Any te teacher cher ma may teach that there was no no divine ere cre- atlon of anything that everything in nature happened by consequence and that the Bible teaching o on every subject is false from Genesis Genesi to Revelation and he will not violate violate violate vio vio- late the law unless he also affirmatively affirm affirm- teaches that man has de descended descended descended de- de from a a. lower order of ot ani- ani mals Before he went to New York t to consult the American Civil Liberties Liberties Liberties Liber Liber- ties union people and their attorneys attorneys Professor Scopes was quoted quote as saying Ev Evolution does no not teach that man sprang a monkey monkey monkey mon mon- key and anti It is said that he was wa questioned closely about the matter matte b bl ba a lawyer awyer not engaged on either elthe side of the case and it Jt was found that he had not gone so far as t to teach that man has descended from froma a lower form torm- of or animals and ha hanot had hadnot hadnot not really violated the law Mr Cantrill points points' out tn the caption of the Tennessee law i is broader than the law Itself I It will Willbe be seen that the word evolution evolution tion does not appear In the body o othe of the enactment that the legislature assumes that to g teach that man manIs Is descended from a low order o or of animal would amount to a denial denla |