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Show TOO MANY COOKS MAY SPOIL BROTH TENNESSEE LAW VIOLATOR 13 j RECEIVING ADVICE FROM ALL PARTS OF NATION I Clarence Darrow, Noted Crimina. Lawyer Agreet to Accept Case For Defendant School Teacher Teach-er John T. Scopes New York.-John T. Scopes, young luiyton, TVnn., high school teacher, has found hlimielf the subject of all horlH of advice from New York liberies liber-ies as to tli.! conduct or his trial next ,:i,.iitH for violating tl.M Tennessee law anainHt. teaching of evolution. Willi.. Iih favoiH accepting offers i,l ul.l from Clarence Harrow, Chicago Chica-go criminal lawyer, and Dudley Field Malone, New York, olliers urged the mlecllon of Charles Kvana Hughes, former Hecrelury of state, who recently recent-ly returned to the practice of law here. United Stales Senator George Wliarlon I'cpper of Pennsylvania was ;,l.o unvested. At a luncheon of the civil liherties union, which has guaranteed him financial fi-nancial backing, Scopes was plainly hewil.lered. He hoisted he was to l,e the final urhiter in the choice ol counsel to assist John R. Neal, former for-mer dean of the University of Tennessee, Ten-nessee, his friend and chief ocunsel. Speakers at the luncheon opposed Darrow and Malono and argued that outside counsel should be a man whose reunions views could not be attacked by fundamentalists. Darrow, Dar-row, speakers said, were reported to lie an atheist. Scopes spoke three times in reply to various suggestions. He said he considered Darrow an agnostic , and uh such would not prejudice any fair minded Juror. He called himself an agnostic, devoutly religious in Ins own way. D.Mnr.pa .tin former secretary of state argued that Darrow's selection selec-tion would inject the Leopold-Loeb inurdur case Into the trial and put a club in the hands of William Jennings ltryan of counsel for the prosecution. Darrow defended Leopold and Loeb and probably saved them from the death penalty for the murder of Bobby Bob-by Franks in Chicago. Bryan in his speeches has held up the youthful 1 slayers as specimens of the evils of "over education." Advocates of Mr. Hughes' selection believe he would accept. Scopes indicated his willingness to accept any assistance which meets the approval of the civil liberties union. To that end a sub committee of the union will confer with him, Darrow, Malone and Neal. "I want this to be an epoch-making , , case," he said, "and I don't want auy- iniug ui ii. Scopes and Neal called on Dr. Hen-i Hen-i ry Fairchild Osborne, president of I the American museum of natural his- ' tory and one of the foremost author ities on the Darwinian theory. Dr. ' Osborn declined to go to Tennessee as a scientific witness for the defense, de-fense, but agreed to serve on an advisory ad-visory board of lawyers and scientists. scien-tists. He warned Scopes not to become be-come marked with radicalism in preparing pre-paring for his trial. |