Scopes Trial

COOKEVILLE, Tenn., July 6, 1925 (UP) -- Application for an injunction to prevent the Scopes evolution trial at Dayton on Friday was expected to be filed here today by John R. Neal, chief counsel for the defense.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 6, 1925 (UP) -- A panel of 29 citizens of Rhea county, predominantly farmers, from which the Scopes evolution trial jury will be chosen, was picked by 16 justices of the peace here today. The names were drawn from a hat by a small barefoot boy in overalls elected for the honor because he was too young to read.

LONDON, July 6, 1925 (UP) -- Scientists have abandoned the idea that man descended from monkeys. Instead, according to Prof. E. N. Fallaize, secretary of the Royal Anthropological Institute, in an exclusive interview with the United Press, they are proceeding on the theory that man may have come from an ancestor prior to both monkey and man, but a common ancestor of both.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 7, 1925 (UP) -- A clerk in Robinson's drug store, where the most famous argument on evolution of modern times began, painted in large white letters on the window pane:

COOKEVILLE, Tenn., July 7, 1925 (UP) -- Cookeville has had its hour in the limelight and Dayton's fame-and probably its money-have been saved.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 8, 1925 (UP) -- A constitutional amendment banishing the evolutionary theory from all American schools forever, is the distant goal of organized fundamentalists.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 10, 1925 (UP) - With the great throng that overflowed Rhea County Courthouse standing with bowed heads and the typewriters and keys of press association operators stilled, Judge Raulston banged his gavel at 9:08 this morning, opening the now famous Scopes case with prayer.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 11, 1925 (UP) - "Are we going to be permitted to defend ourselves?" is the issue sharply thrust into the Scopes evolution trial today by attorneys for the defense.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 13, 1925 (UP) - With pent up emotions threatening to burst the bounds of legal restraint at any moment, the trial of John T. Scopes was resumed today when Judge Raulston's gavel fell.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 14, 1925 (UP) - This fight is one of those things.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 9, 1925 (UP) -- Promising to devote the remainder of his life, if necessary, to a national campaign for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the teaching of evolution, in case the Scopes trial results in victory for the defense, William Jennings Bryan today gave his many admirers here ground for predicting that the commoner would again become a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Those who heard and cheered Bryan's declaration that he would make the last act of leadership of his life a nation-wide campaign to put the Bible into the Constitution, forecast a day when he would run for president on a fundamentalist platform.

LONDON, July 9, 1925 (UP) -- Twenty-eight of England's greatest scientists and churchmen, including Sir Oliver Lodge, Bishop E. W. Barnes and Sir Arthur Keith, will attack anti-evolutionists tomorrow-the day of the Scopes trial opening in America-in a symposium in the weekly, Nature.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 17, 1925 (UP) - In a grand display of verbal fireworks in which Clarence Darrow nearly was threatened with being held in contempt of court, the Scopes case, through a ruling by Judge Raulston, neared dissolution today.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 21, 1925 (UP) - John T. Scopes, high school professor was found guilty by a jury today of teaching the evolution theory of the descent of man contrary to the recently passed law of Tennessee. The jury was out only a few minutes. He is liable to a fine of $100 to $500.

DAYTON, Tenn., July 21, 1925 (UP) - William Jennings Bryan's cross-examination at the hands of Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel, was the climax of the Scopes evolution trial.