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Show UO I As Dying Father Asked, Cosmetics Case Is App3aJed I i KNOB EL, Ark.. May 2. A father's dying wish that the "lip stick" case Of his daughter, in which the "rights of the girl to use cosmetics while attending school are at stake." he carried out to the full extent of the law. is being fulfilled hv virtue of the unusual caso being appealed to the Arkansas supreme court. Miss Pearl Pngaley, 18, was suspended sus-pended from the Knobel school last September for refusing to attend classes without powder on her face, after the school board had formulated formulat-ed a rule prohibiting girl students from using cosmetics of any kind or wearing short skirts The lather started a suit to have the rule set aside. He died before a verdict was given, but on his death bed said he wanted the case carried as far as possible so that his daughter's daugh-ter's rights could be upheld The rule was held to be unjust and unreasonable by Judge W. W Bandy last April 12, but he refused! to issue a writ of mandamus to have tho school board abrogate the rule on a technicality. An appeal to the state supreme court was granted. |