University Daily Kansan Comments On Mass Meeting---Page 6 Tower Hill 1 Daily Kansan LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1942 The Warner a VOICE OF VICTORY NUMBER 51 40TH YEAR Students Seek To Repudiate Mob Action A committee of eight students representing Hill organizations will meet at 9 o'clock this morning to discuss plans dents representing Hill organizations will meet at 9 o'clock this morning to discuss plans for "repudiating the mob action Friday afternoon as representative of the student body." A petition will be formulated asking the University Senate to reconsider its action in voting down two proposed resolutions granting students an extended vacation. No plans will be made for a student meeting tomorrow, the committee said. Members of the committee are M. Sollenberger, Peggy Davis, Marge Rader, Donn Mosser, Vernon McKale, Mary Kay Brown, Max Webster, and Chuck Elliott. Meeting Held Yesterday A meeting was held yesterday afternoon by another committee in which the action to be decided upon this morning was first formulated. this morning was first fortunate that of repudiating the mob demonstration as representative of the students and a petition asking the Senate to reconsider the proposals for a longer vacation. A plan was also suggested in which statements would be sent to Kansas newspapers after being signed by presidents of all Hill organizations and organized houses declaring the mob demonstration in front of the Chancellor's office Friday afternoon was the action of a small minority rather than an all-school action. Christmas Vespers Are Today The meeting was held yesterday after the committee members had conducted a survey of students and (continued to page eight) Ban Lifted On Sale Of Gasoline In East Washington—(INS) Price administrator Leon Henderson today ordered the moratorium on gas sales along the eastern seaboard lifted at midnight Sunday, but directed that B and C coupons be reduced in value from 4 to 3 gallons, while A books retain the same value. The OPA chief said that the value of B and C rationing coupons will be reduced at the same time to 3 gallons. The value of the A coupon, held by 5,700,000 motorists, remained at 3 gallons in the 16 eastern states and the District of Columbia and will be cut to 3 gallons for all of West Virginia. Henderson estimated that the cut in B and C ration coupons will save approximately 25000 barrels of gasoline daily in 17 Eastern states and the District of Columbia. Students Clamour for Vacation Pictured above are members of the student body who massed outside the Chancellor's office in Frank Strong hall Friday afternoon demanding a reconsideration of the shortened Christmas vacation. Banquet Planned for Graduating Seniors To give seniors being graduated at the end of the first semester a rousing sendoff, a special recognition banquet will be given at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building, Jan. 7, Willis Tompkins, president of the class of '43, announced yesterday. ns will be extended to all seniors graduating in Invitations will be extend January, Tompkins said. "It is the belief of the committee that seniors being graduated in January have received no recognition heretofore, and that under the present conditions many students will be unable to return in May to participate in graduation exercises. This makes such a banquet extremely desirable." The banquet will carry out the traditional activities of the annual senior breakfast given in the spring, including the class prophecy, class history, and toasts by members of the faculty, administration, and senior class. The traditional smoking of the corn cob pipe is another feature of the banquet. Jim Gillie, business senior, will be toastmaster. The committee planning the banquet are the senior class officers, including Virginia Tieman, vice-president; Evelyn Nielsen, secretary; John Conard, treasurer; and Tompkins. French Fleet At Dakar On Side Of Allied Nations Allied headquarters in North Africa, (INS) — The French fleet at Dakar has come over to the side of the United Nations and the Allied fleet now dominates both the eastern and western ends of the Mediterranean, Admiral Sir Andrew Brown Cunningham, commander-in-chief of the Allied naval forces in North African waters, told war correspondence today. WEATHER Weather forecast for today and tomorrow is for more cold with possible snow late this evening Film of Ice Atop Sleet Slows Cars While the ban on gasoline emptied highways of the East of motor traffic Old Man Winter stepped into the picture in Lawrence yesterday to accomplish much of the same results. The 5-above temperature promised for Friday failed to materialize. The cold wave descending from the northwest was retarded by a warm southeastern wind and the temperature missed the goal by nearly 20 degrees. Sleet which coated pavements during the night to make walking and motoring difficult was coated with a film of ice from freezing mist yesterday afternoon, making travel all the more difficult. Snow promised for last night was expected to add to the hazards of motoring but gave more promise of a White Christmas. Vatican Pleas That Rome Not Be Bombed Washington. (INS)—The American Government today is understood to be giving active consideration to an appeal made by the Vatican that Rome be spared from Allied air attacks. Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican, is participating in the State Department discussion concerning the possibility of declaring Rome an open city. EXAMINATION SCHEDULE January 12 to January 15, 1943, inclusive All five and four hour courses, and three, two and one hour courses scheduled on the MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY sequence will be examined as follows: TUESDAY, January 12—1:30 classes at 8:30 to 10:20 2:30 classes at 1:30 to 3:20 WEDNESDAY, January 13-8:30 classes at 8:30 to 10:20 11:30 classes at 3:30 to 5:20 THURSDAY, January 14—10:30 classes at 8:30 to 10:20 4:30 classes at 10:30 to 12:20 FRIDAY, January 15-9:30 classes at 8:30 to 10:20 3:30 classes at 1:30 to 3:20 Three, two, and one hour courses scheduled on the TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY sequence will be examined as follows: WEDNESDAY, January 13—3:30 classes at 10:30 to 12:30 1:30 classes at 1:30 to 3:20 TUESDAY, January 12—4:30 classes at 10:30 to 12:20 11:30 classes at 3:30 to 5:20 THURSDAY, January 14—8:30 classes at 1:30 to 3:20 9:30 classes at 1:30 to 5:20 FRIDAY, January 15—10:30 classes at 10:30 to 12:20 2:30 classes at 3:30 to 5:20 Annual Yuletide Show Features Tableaux, Carols The seventy-second all-musical Christmas vespers, filled with outstanding seasonal music, will be presented at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Hoch auditorium by the faculty and students of the School of Fine Arts. Twenty minutes preceding the service, Christmas carols will be played by a brass quartet composed of Robert Cater and Don Holman, cornets, and Dan Bachmann and Roy Hodges, trombones. Also during this time, chime carols will be played within the auditorium to the audience assembled there. At the opening of the program, Laurel Everette Anderson will play an organ number, "Carillon," by Vierne, which will be followed by the candle lighting, performed by Tommy Hankins, son of Prof. and Mrs. J. E. Hankins, and Fred Coombs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Madison Coombs. Ensemble Plays "Ave Maria" An ensemble number, "Ave Maria," by Bach-Gounod, played by Waldemar Geltch, violin, Jack Stephenson and John Ehrlick, cello, Mervyn Anderson, harp, and Laurel Anderson, organ, will precede the procession of the University a capella choir, singing "O Come All Ye Faithful." The choir's first number, under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout, will be "From Heights of Heaven to Earth I Fare," a seventeenth century Christmas chorale, harmonized by Schein. The chorus will be assisted by Don Holman, James Sellards, Keith Meade, and Keith Wilson, trumpets, and Laurel Anderson at the organ. Depict Russian Christmas The first of four tableaux will de- continued to page eight German Line Pierced By New Soviet Drive Moscow—(INS)—A gigantic new twin-pronged Russian drive which has pierced the German line at points on the southwest front and resulted in the capture of more than 200 inhabited localities and 30,000 Nazi casualties was announced tonight in a special Soviet communique. More than 20,000 Germans were killed and 10,000 taken prisoner as Russians routed nine German infantry divisions and one tank brigade, seizing great quantities of enemy material.