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January 29, 1942

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Headlines from January 29, 1942

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CRITICAL SENATORS PLEDGE NELSON AID; Truman Offers to Uphold $1-a-Year Men After WPB Head Says They Are Needed THE WAR PRODUCTION CHIEF BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE CRITICAL SENATORS PLEDGE NELSON AID

By W.h. Lawrencespecial To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, assumed full responsibility today for the success or failure of the arms production and procurement program, and won a pledge of full and wholehearted cooperation from a special Senate Committee which has been openly critical of defense progress.

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IMPORTER INDICTED AS 'FENCE' FOR GEMS SEIZED BY NAZIS; Cousin of von Ribbentrop's Wife is Accused of Selling Stones for Germany Here LOOT OF LOW COUNTRIES Federal Authorities Declare Traffic in Diamonds Was Quickly Checked DIAMONDS SEIZED HERE IN ALLEGED NAZI FINANCE PLOT IMPORTER INDICTED AS A NAZI 'FENCE'

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W and C von Clemm, Mrs J von Ribbentrop's cousins, Pioneer Import Corp, Internatl Mortgage Handelsgesellschaft, Nazi High Command, E Cremer and C Hoepfner indicted on charge of conspiracy to violate Roosevelt order barring payments involving Belgian and Netherland natls property and false import declarations on ownership of diamonds looted from occupied Belgium and Netherlands in plan to evade Brit blockade, aid German prestige and build up exch credit in U S, Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina; W von Clemm held, N Y C; seeks bail; por; illus

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Germans' Libyan Drive Checked As R.A.F. Exacts Increasing Toll; A FRONT EMERGES IN LIBYAN FIGHTING GERMANS' DRIVE IN LIBYA CHECKED

By Joseph M. Levywireless To the New York Times

CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 28 -- Although fighting in Libya continued in the area of Msus yesterday, it appeared that the German advance had been slowed considerably. The rudiments of a line were being formed between Soluch and positions near Msus, giving some hope that the drive undertaken by General Erwin Rommel, the German commander, would be stopped soon.

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NAVY 'DOING ITS JOB' IN EAST, SAYS KNOX; Men and Material Moving to Hard-Pressed Fronts in the Pacific, He States NAVY DOING ITS JOB IN EAST, SAYS KNOX

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1942Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Cuban military officer, legislator and cosmonaut^[†]

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut and the first person of African heritage in space. In 1980, as a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen, the first Latin American, the first person of African descent, and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into Earth orbit.

Headlines from January 29, 1942

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CRITICAL SENATORS PLEDGE NELSON AID; Truman Offers to Uphold $1-a-Year Men After WPB Head Says They Are Needed THE WAR PRODUCTION CHIEF BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE CRITICAL SENATORS PLEDGE NELSON AID

Germans' Libyan Drive Checked As R.A.F. Exacts Increasing Toll; A FRONT EMERGES IN LIBYAN FIGHTING GERMANS' DRIVE IN LIBYA CHECKED

NAVY 'DOING ITS JOB' IN EAST, SAYS KNOX; Men and Material Moving to Hard-Pressed Fronts in the Pacific, He States NAVY DOING ITS JOB IN EAST, SAYS KNOX

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