Show KNICKER I INOW NOW IN COURT I As-I FORT FULTON FULT Ind By BY By The As As- e Press While the courts de- de deliberate liberate over Virginia Allens Allen's r richt ht to wear knickers to school Virginia I de-I Is going ahead ohead with her education education and and wearing knickers The controversy began a a. year ago when Mrs Fahyma Iris Allen sent her year old daughter to the Fort Ful- Ful Fulon Fulton nilton ton on school clad In boyish blouse and knickerbockers The principal sent her home and the thc school board sup sup- supported supported supported ported his action For weeks Virginia appeared each morning at school clad In her knick knick- knickers ers and as os a many mornings the prin- prin principal cipal forbade her entrance Meanwhile he the tho case had gotten Into the courts cour courand and Mrs Allen had sued the Fort Fui- Fui Fulton ton on school board for When the litigation was thickest Judge George C. C Kopp Kop of Juvenile court took a hand and decided that Virginia must have an education re regardless re- re regardless regardless I of the thc debate about her clothing So he made her a a. ward of the he court and ordered that she be per pr- p permitted r- r to attend school while the courts threshed out the matter of whether a principal and a school board can say cay what pupils cannot wear Opening of ot the fall falI school term finds Virginia attending her classes classe under the courts court's protection pro much like Ike any other year old girl except girl except that hat she Is wearing knickerbockers k I |