Evening star., 1925-07-08
DAYTON IMPORTING
CRIME DETECTORS'
"City SliCkerS" Too Smart
for Small Town Officers,
Police Believe.
Nv tn. Associated Press

Ry tn. Associated Press
DAYTON Tenn. July s-A warm
reception is being prepared for offend
ers or all types who may choose TO
attend the scene Of the Scopes evolu-
tion trial.
Dayton police officers today were in
stalline special detail Of local men
10 look after" violators OF the ordi-
nances against liquor buying and sell.
ing and ordinary trouble makers of a
non professional.
The town marshal has arranged for
trained experts from Chattanooga and
Knoxville police departments to aid
them in crime detection. This detail
will be assigned to check the sctivi.
ties of clever swindlers and city
sllckers.' who are regarded too
smart for small town officers.
Federal prohibition authorities have
set up machinery by which they ex-
! pect TO defeat efforts of bootleggers
10 trade in Illicit wares. A special
examination of the mountainous.
wooded slopes around Dayton will be
| made for stills.
Dayton itself is without prison.
but Rhes County has. offered the use
! of a commodious Jail.
Bryan Assails "Guesses."
Evolution is 'guesses strung togeth.
err" according 10 the definition OF
Villa m Jennings Bryan who spoke
last night At banquet given in
his honor hy the Dayton Progressive
! Club. Scopes sal directly across the
ia BILE from Mr.. Bryan. who in his
address referred TO the fact tina,
Scopes received his high school edu-
cation in the speakers nstiv. town,
Salem. H.. and was member OF the
graduating class addressed by Mr..
Bryan.
The contest between evolution and
Christia nifty is a duel to the death.
said Mr.. Bryan. 1T has been In the
past death grappIe in the dark.
From this time on IL will be deaf tn
pple in the light.
The jury will not settle the aues-
ton in the Scopes case finally, but
the people will. Through the case
we should be interested in giving
the people a thorough ,understa nding
of the principles involved. That is
what makes this case as importan mt
as IL is.
He touched briefly on the charges
that people of Tennessee were illit-
crate and was loud in their praise
II will put the character OF the
people of Tennessee against that of
any in the United States"
baFfow Arrives IOfnOFrOW.
Clarence Darrow. who will psrtici-
pate in the defense telegra phed
friends here that he would leave Chi
caso today. reaching Dayton tomor-
row, Interest in the question of
prospective testimony from scientists
was stirred by the news that DIR.
Avery f. Lambert. professor of
anatomy at the University of Ala
bama and an announced believer In
the Bible and evolution would arrive
Friday TO be available as witness
for the defense.
DIR. William Goldsmith of Winfield.
Kans. professor at Southwestern
University. has definitely accepted
the invitation to testify in behalf OF
Scopes.
Attorneys for the defense express
ed the belief that in his address of
last night Mr. Bryan definitely had
recounted his reaction to the case.
They took his statements as chal-
lenge to them to produce this mon
ster evolution" and declared they
would accept the challenge by pro-
ducing al the trial witnesses who
would outline the evolutionary theory
and other witnesses to attempt to
show that the theory of evolution
does not conflict with the biblical ac-
count of the creation
COIRy NOT TO RE PRESENT