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Prospects seemed a bit brighter for reunion among the divided U.S. Presbyterians.* At the Northern Presbyterians' 163rd General Assembly in Cincinnati last week, the 880 "commissioners" (Presbyterian for delegates) voted for a nine-point program of cooperation among the three major bodies. The plan provides for "open forum" talks among the denominations, joint evangelistic projects, and "full and open discussion . . . among representatives of the three communions before any new work is opened, or any old church closed...
...minutes and 44.6 seconds later Airborne, the rank outsider, romped home to win. As an exasperated bettor somewhere flung down his morning copy of the Times, the dampness underfoot seeped across the words of an article already part of history. "The 163rd Renewal of the Derby Stakes," it said, "is at Epsom again after an interval of seven years...
...plane squarely and exploded its bomb load, blowing it to pieces." First detailed accounts of the tactics used by the Finns to wreck the Russian invasion at Suomussalmi reached the U. S. along with the first good pictures (see opposite page) of the battlefield. When two Russian divisions (the 163rd and 44th) occupied Suomussalmi in the early days of the war (TIME, Jan. 1), the Finns had only two companies to oppose them. The Finns, aided by their network of railways, quickly brought up reinforcements from the neighborhood of Lake Laatokka. They succeeded in separating the two Russian divisions...
...44th was said to have been ambushed when it tried to come to the rescue of the 163rd division, reported "destroyed" near Suomussalmi last month. It was reported that the Finns first cut a branch line from the Murmansk railroad, upon which the 44th division depended for supplies, and then surrounded it. In the battle, the Finns claimed to have taken 1,000 prisoners. They believed that they had definitely killed for the winter's duration any chance that Russian forces might cut Finland...
Near Lake Kianta the Russians threw their entire 163rd Division into battle, trying again to break through Finland's waist. In a bitter two-day battle the Finns "cut to pieces" the 163rd, pursued its remnants into the forests and toward the frontier...