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Show j Ousted From School For Using Powder, Girl Gets Movie Offer CORNING, Ark, April i The lipstick" lip-stick" case of Knobel. Ark., in w hich Miss Pearl Pugsley, 18 years old and pretty, seeks a writ of mandamus to .set aside rul? of the Knobel school board forbidding students to use cosmetics cos-metics wear low and peek-a-boo waists and short skirts. Is to come up In Clay county circuit court lu re April 8. Miss Pugsley was dismissed from 1h.-elementary 1h.-elementary school at Knobel because she violated the rnlei according to N E Hicks, principal of the school The g-lrl and her friends claim that she only had talcum powder on hT fm I National notoriety has heen given the case, and Miss Pugalej says she I has received thousands of letters from 'persons eympat hlzlng with her on the question She also declared that a moving mov-ing picture concern offered her t000 a week to enter th movies. She has the offer under consideration, she added The rule were promulgated by I he Hchool board last August at the hegln-nlng hegln-nlng of tho school term at Knobol, and I the case has been called up several times, but each time something delayed delay-ed It I it is reported thai the si hooj board I would contend In court that the cjues- tion is not for the courts to decide bul Is solely under the jurisdiction of the board W Moore, aitorney for the girl, .stalled that 'Miss Pugsley has bad no notice from the school board that her suspension has been withdrawn and I do not believe that the contention ot the board will be upheld in court." Reports that the board, principal and teacher of the school would resign re-sign as a result of the prominence the easo has ntlnlned have been denb d by Ithe officials. |