'Monkey law' gets shaft
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — (UPI)—The Tennessee House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to repeal the state's controversial "monkey law" that instigated one of the most famous trials in American legal history.
After heated debate, the repeal measure was passed 52-27 and sent to the Senate.
A number of similar bills had been introduced in the legislature over the years, but it was the first time that one had been approved by the house.
WATCHED BY a caged monkey, brought in by a sergeant-at-arms as a "guest out of order," Rep. Jack Smith led off the arguments by explaining the repeal bill he sponsored.
Smith said the measure would
Adenauer's resistance deteriorates
BONN—(UPI)—Doctors today reported 91-year-old Konrad Adenauer's heart and blood system weakening in his battle for life. They said the ailing former chancellor's powers of resistance are lessening.
The Adenauer family physician issued the report after several specialists from the Bonn University clinic examined the stricken statesman.
The report indicated that Adenauer's iron will, which has won repeated battles against the ravages of time and disease, may no longer be enough.
ADENAUER WAS struck by a gripe-like infection and bronchitis Friday and his condition apparently grew worse Wednesday.
Most of his seven children rushed to his bedside at Adenauer's hillside home in Rhoendorf, a Rhine River village four miles from here.
The special squad of police guarding his home took the unprecedented step of cutting his private telephone lines, turning back all callers except a few knowing a secret word.
The Christian Democratic Union, the massive Roman Catholic-Protestant party Adenauer created after the war, took the unusual step Wednesday of issuing a medical bulletin on the illness. It described Adenauer's condition as "serious."
"remove a law which has caused trouble in Tennessee." He referred to the 42-year-old statute which was the basis for the $125 Scopes "monkey trial."
The law prohibits the teaching in public schools of any evolution theories conflicting with the divine creation of man.
John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher at Dayton, Tenn., agreed to test the law in court and told his students about Darwin's theory that man may have descended from the monkey.
CHARGED WITH violating the antievolution law, Scopes was tried in a carnival-like atmosphere that captured national headlines. He virtually was lost in a classic legal battle between famed attorney Clarence Darrow, aiding the defense, and former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, helping the prosecution.
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Scopes was convicted and fined $100.
Rep. W. A. Richardson, in opposing Smith's bill Wednesday, used much the same argument as Bryan did in 1925.
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