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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-10-24
CHAPTER TWkAI

THE RINGING of the doorbel
blended into Mary's early morning
dreams. But gradually the sound OF
soiccs and Fran's loud "Sssh"ing:
:oused her consciousness. She
opened her eyes. Bright sunlight
SLED the room, and the tempting
fragrance Of coffee and frying ba.
con drifted In from the kitchen
Sunday! Her one day at home.
WOO hoo" she called.
The door was flung open. Frar
appeared in 1t, looking guilty ant
mad beneath her grin. Over hel
shoulders poked the heads Of Ker
and Burke.
Il couldn't keep the Jugs quIetT
Fran complained. Il tried, Mary
Get up! Get up, lazy bones!
cried Burke.
Were going hunting" Ker
added.
Mary stretched slim arms above
her head in O yawn that broke
abruptly in amazement.
"Hunting?" she echoed wonder
ingly.
Sure. Jap hunting" Burke
shouted. We're"
Fran swung about and gave the
two men a push.
Put the breakfast on the table"
she demanded. you can't wake her
up after just five hours of sleep
shouting things like that. You'll
scare her TO DEATH"
Fran brought Mary's robe and
helped her into her slippers. Wash
your face and come out and eat
with u.s." she said. II can wash the
dishes while you dress"
But what are they talking
about?" Mary struggled sleepily
into her robe.
"Oh. nothing much. One Of the
cameramen at the studio has been
filling Burke with a lot Of tall tales
about Japs, and when we heard
last night that our movie short
was bowling success, Burke de-
cided to turn special Jap investi-
gator today. He's just blowing off
steam"
"Oh, Fran" Mary Rugged her
roommate. I'm so glad--I mean
about your movie short"
Fran grinned. I'm pretty happy
myself" she confded. Because the
agent thinks he's on the trail of
real picture as result of it, We
might find ourselves with a steady
career yet"
Ken and Burke whistled appre-
ciatively as the girls came out to
the car in snartly tailored slack
suits, Frsns Of ocean-blue, and
Mary's n dull gold, ornamented
with her emerald brooch and ring.
California Matt Harris" chuc-
killed. Ken, helping them In. ALLEY
oop Is the password"
The morning fog was slowly dis
sipating under warm sunshine as
they drove along the winding coast
road. Burke unfolded a page of
movie script, on the back Of which
he had ,rawn rough map Of
roads and towns.
What are the KS" Ken asked
as he took II over?
Vegetable stands an all vital
spots where Japs were arrested for
espionage and subversiye activity
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&c allowed to stock up to an amount
up To It's 1911 sales. After the Ir.t
Stock up however. the dealer viii
nave TO turn in Il ration certificates
taken from his customers in ,rd.,.
10 rcplcniSh his stocks.
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STRENGTH OF NAVY
NOW 100000 MEN

Washington. Oct. 24.-(AP)-Scc-
Rotary Knox disclosed to-day tina, ,uc
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+Battfesflip
Hits Reef:
Back at Sea

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 Up
Secretary of the Navy Knox
said today that very early in the
war an American battleship had
struck an uncharted reef but had
long since been repaired.
The secretary was asked at a
press conference regarding re-
ports that such a mishap had &C.
Cured, and he replied, II don't
think there was any harm in
saying that in the very early
stages of the war one of the
battleships did hit an uncharted
reef and was repaired a long
time ago"
He gave no detail of the &C.
currence nor did he say where
it occurred.
The reports about which the
secretary was told were that the
incident had occurred in the
South Pacific.
The secretary also said, in re-
Spouse to other questions, that
the Navy did not plan to re-
lease its enlisted men over SO
See DAMAGE-Page 2
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CALLED LATER
Draft Status of Michigan Married Men is Clarified

registrant's current good con-
duct.
In an attempt to make every
man available for military serv-
ice who can perform a useful
function, the headquarters said,
only men who may become dis
ciplinary problems will be ex-
cluded in the future. No one
committed to prison for a helm
Gus crime" will be accepted.
Embarrassment caused regis
trants because Of AZ classified
ton for old crimes will be avoid
ed under the new policy, il was
said. Such cases now will be
deferred first for dependency or
occupational reasons and only
will be placed in At il the ar
my will not waive the moral dis
qualification.
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cases to be ready for March
draft calls. Many boards will
start such Reconsideration after
January l."
LONG PROCESS PERIOD
The spokesman pointed out
that upwards of As days are re-
quired to process inductions and
that the reclassification must be
started soon if future calls for
men are to be met. Reclassifi-
cations will be according to or
der and serial numbers.
cts time that people began
to realize that married men
without children are due to be
called for service and should
start making their preparations
now" the spokesman said.
At the same time, the head
quarters disclosed modification
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convoy between T. Zauia, 30
miles west of Tripoli, and Med
enine.
Medenine is about 70 miles
in Tunisia from the Libyan bor-
der and about SO miles south
east of the Port of Gabes.
American Flying Fortresses
braved the tricky flying condi-
tons of North Africa's rainy re-
Rod again yesterday in an at
tack on the harbor and docks
at Sousse. The central dock
area was hard hit and a great
column of black and white
smoke was left rising from the
waterfront.
All of the big bombers re-
turned safely.
A spokesman announced that
Lieut.. Virgil ,mith of McAllen.
Texas, the pilot of a Lockheed
Lightning fighter, shot down his
sixth enemy plane yesterday, a
Messerschmitt 100. The spokes-
man said the six victories ap-
parently made Smith the ace of
the American air force l., this
theater.
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Peace, Welfare
Council Sought
Vice President
Proposes Effort

LONDON, Dec. 29-(R-Vice
President Wallace's proposal for
a world peace and welfare coun-
Gil after the war drew generally
favorable comment from the
British press today, although the
Laborite Daily Herald protested
to see "the calculating viewpoint
of big business" in his address
last night in Washington.
Declaring that such view us
too much in evidence for our
liking" the paper said that Wal
lace stresses the fact that 'ex-
port markets will be opened by
improving the living standards
of backward races"
1T may we'll be-" the Daily
See COUNCIL-Page 2.
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U-boais Claim
II Ships Sunk
Berlin Reports
Attoek on Convoy

BERLIN (from German beuo6.
casts) Dec. 20 - R - The Go9s
man high command declared =
a special communiQue today TIT
in a two-day running attack axE10l
submarines had sma1hed Z eon.
voy bound south from Brito1n
and sunk Is cargo ships totalinyi
s., 900 cons as well ~ q destruys
er and q corvette among the -.
corting vessels.
Three other shirs received -
pedo hits, the broadcaSt 81
The climatic sinkings were ~
to have occurred last Aiglit.
(There was 70 confirmation @.
the report from allied sources IL
GA German report recorded e.
London said that the convoy w.
American and that Il had hoan
followed until IL was near o.
French (perhaps French Noreh
African) coast.
(The high command commsIuAt
ique, rs recorded In New YoelE,
said simply that Il was . Co.
voy sailing south from England
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Two Drivers
DIEM Crash
Truck ond Bus
Accident FotoI

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Dec.
29-(R-Drivers Of q Grand
Rapids motor coach company
bus and a heavy truck were
killed today in a collision at the
foot of a hill. The bus burst
into flames following the crash.
The driver of the bus, its only
occupant, police said. was iden-
titled as Harry A. Lille, 50, of
Grand Rapids.
Officials of Associated Truck
Lines. Inc, of Grand Rapids,
said they believed Joseph Martu-
taitus, Jr., 81, of Route I, Grand
Haven, was the driver of the
truck, but they were not able
to identify the body definitely
Immediately.
Martutaitus was pitched
through the windshield Of his
cab through a side window Of
the bus, where he was trapped
in the flames with Lille, it YVES
reported.
First reports by police were
that the driver of the truck he'd
disappeared following TIE erasA
and that Lille and . posDeneef
on the bus were burned 10 deatA.
Later they found that the truck
driver was the second victim.
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LANSING, Dec. % R-
Michigan local draft boards are
not authorized now to induct
married men, other than those
wed in the face of imminent ar
my induction, the state Selective
Service headquarters said, but
may reclassify such registran.s
who have no children in prepar-
alton for drafting in March.
Statements in other parts Of
the country that married men
without children already are be-
ing called to service are not
true in Michigan, a spokesman
said.
Local boards have no auth
ority to take men with wives for
induction at the present time,
the spokesman said, "but some
are beginning to reclsssify such
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Flood Waters
.Are5tiI| High
kibbie Flots
Plight Serious

While flood waters had reced-
ed in South Macomb commune
ties, the Clinton River spilled
further over its banks today,
particularly in the Kibbee Flats
section where at least four of Is
families had fled their homes.
BY noon, water as deep as two
and one half feet covered the
flats and swept into easements,
dousing virtually all furnace
fires.
l.. c. Arnold, of Is Kibbec
Flats, stood in water eight inches
deep at IL a. m. when he de-
scribed the flood scene over the
telephone to a Monitor-Leader
reporter.
Arnold said that most of the
IL families still in their homes
were using boats in committing
to their cars parked on higher
ground nearby. He said his own
furnace fire was still suffering,
but most of the houses were
without heat.
The Clinton was still rising
approximately two inches per
hour, about half the rate of Sat
urday and Sunday when the
heaviest December rainfall since
1891 doused the area.
Water from the Clinton spew-
ed onto North River road only a
mile south of Selfridge Field and
onto the lowlands just east OF
the field at the Selfridge bridge
Van Wallace, 36-year-old Grip
pie, was in St. Joseph's hospital
today, forced to leave his home
on the banks of the Clinton for
the 18th consecutive year. He
was evacuated at noon yesterday
See FLOOD-Page 2
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Two Mobsiers
Slain by FbI;
Leader Caught
Most Vicious
Criminal Gens'
Smashed by G-Msn
BY GILES FINDLEY

CHICAGO, Dec. % B -
The terrible Touhy" gang. de-
scribed by FBI Chief J. Edgar
Hoover as 1.-THE most vicious and
most dangerous the country has
ever had" was smashed BY tn
FIJI last night and early today.
two members by killing and dve
by capture.
Announcement Of the round
up, in which not . single rD1
man was injured despite . gum
battle with the two felons WIN
were slain, was made by Hoover
at offices Of the FBI. He said -
had been in Chicago. where IL
gang was rounded up, since Sun-
day and the seizure representea
weeks of careful planning ana
timing.
The gang had been hunted
since Oct. 8 when Roger Touly,
leader of the gang that rulod
Chicago's northwest gang ei4.
cles during the prohibition -.
and six others fought
cluAbed their way out az -
vile penitentiafy near J0lISE nc 's
LEADERS SURRENDER
Toughy and his first 11nu1n n
ant, Basil Hugh (the Owl) ~
hart, . desperate criminal 49,
boasted mo Jail can hold - n
surrendered to FBI agents HI
morning without . shot bo1nH
fired. With them was Edwn1
Darlak, %, serving 100 yooxo
imprisonment for the murder q
q policeman.
Last night two other msmbogp
Of the gang, Eugene Lanthoen.
better known by his alias q
James O'Connor, and st. Clair
McInerney, were shot down
when they attempted to eoclpo
from q hiding place surrounds
by FBI agents. Previously ~.
thew Nelson, whose corroet,
name Is Martilick Nelson. aliao
See FBE-Pago 8
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Flames Sweep
RaiIwayYa
Spectacular Fire
Hits Roundhouss

DETROIT, Dec. 20 - B -
Locomotive whistles and the
sirens of fire engines shrisked
in a mad bedlam in west D.
troit last night as q spectacular
fire swept part Of . Michigan
Central railroad round-house.
At least IL locomotives, some
steamed up and ready to puff
out into service, were damaged.
Twenty-four pieces of fire fight
ing equipment, answering four
alarms, fought the flames for IN
hour before gaining control.
With the FIJI taking part, IN
investigation to determine the
cause of the fire was being con-
Quoted today by the railroad
and the fire department. or
ficials said they had discovered
no evidence of sabotage.
An employee turned in the first
alarm at 9:19 p. m. when he saw
fire racing up a pole of the big
roundhouse, which is equipped
to care for As locomotives.
Shortly, the blaze reached the
roof, part of which collapsed on
the engines.
Wood framing in the brick
walls also caught fire.
The Michigan Central said
that il necessary locomotives
from nearby cities would be or
dered into Detroit. No sched-
ules were held up by the fire,
however, trainmen said.
M. j. Max, chief of police for
the Michigan Central here, said
this was the. first roundhouse
fire of his experience in 26
years on the road.
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Record Quake

BERLIN, From G er m . n
Broadcasts) Dec. 29-(P-The
German Radio reported today
that the Jena observatory had
recorded a every violent earth
quake" early this morning, be-
Iieved to have been centered on
the Dalmation coast, in South
eastern Yugoslavia, across the
Adriatic from Italy.
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The memorable pattern of poll
tics today appeared in sharpen
ed relief Throughout. Macomb
county as retiring officials
cleaned person belongings
from desk drawers and their
eager successors stood-by await
ing the stroke of midnight on
Thursday which will convert
them from private citizens into
full-fledged administrators of
public affairs.
Seven new faces vii. be ap-
parent in major county offices
or in legislative halls when they
reopen on Saturday, following
the New Years holiday. They
are:
Stats Senator: Ivan A. John
ston, replacing Gilbert Isbister.
State Representative: Howard
r. Carroll, replacing Louis
Priehs.
Prosecuting Attorney: Wilbur
F. Held, replacing Ivan A. John
ston.
County Treasurer: william q.
Miller, replacing Carl B. Brand
enburg.
Drain Commissioner: william
Harper, replacing George 4.
Smith.
Coroner: william d. Clyne,
replacing William C. Sperlich.
Circuit Court Commissioner:
Alton ii. Noe.
Already firmly entrenched in
public offices but beginning new
terms Jan. /, are:
Sheriff: Jacob r. Theut.
County Clerk: Guy L. Brown.
Register Of Deeds: Alice l..
Tucker.
Coroner: Howard ". Groes-
beck, Jr.
Circuit Court Commissioner:
John HI. Nunneley.
In the state.at-large a new
governor, Harry F. Kelly, will
take over the executive offices
formerly occupied by Gov. Muir
ray D. VanWagoner, while a new
lieutenant-g o vernon, Eugene
Reyes, will supplant Frank Muir
ply. Auditor General Vernon
j. Brown will retain his post,
while H. H. Dignan takes over
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Political Pendulum
Swings on Friday
New County, State Officials
Take over Duties Jan.

the duties of secretary of state,
relinquished by the incoming
governor.
D. Hale Brake becomes state
treasurer.
In the national capital q new
Michigan senator, the former
racket-busting circuit judge,
Homer Ferguson, will assume
the duties formerly exercised by
Prentiss Brown and Jesse p.
Wolcott, representative from the
18th congressional district, will
retain his post as spokesman
lawmaker for the area of which
Macomb county is part.
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Joins DeGaulle

LONDON, Dec. 29-(R)-Gen.
Charles de Gaulle's headquarters
announced today that French
S0maliland in East Africa had
aligned itself officially with the
fighting French. The CrOix de
Lorraine flag Of the Fighting
French has been flying at Dr.
bout since last night, head
quarters said.
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Sports Editor Leads
Draft CONTINGENT

Led by John p. King, Daily
Monitor-Leader sports editor, Is
selectees from Draft Board No.
1 left the USO Club at 7;45 am.
today for Detroit where all will
take Army Physical examina-
tions.
The men were served coffee
at the USO club. T ose accept
ed will be furloughed pending
call in about two weeks to re-
port for duty at Fort Custer.
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French Empire
Ties frightened
by Mew accord
BY GLENN BABB

The last bit of Vichy rule has
been wiped from the map of
Africa and the prospects for
early union of all Frances over
seas empire. except Inco-China,
under one banner is br Jhter to-
day than ever before. The Lor-
raine cross of the Fighting
French has been raised over
Djibuti, capital of the little, iso-
lated Somaliland colony which
was the last unit of French At
RIGA to acknowledge tie author
ity of the Petain regime.
Thus all the French empire
except the homeland and Indo-
See EMPIRE-Page 2
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way, the Russians reported
smashing through Nazi outer de-
lenses to capture Nagolny, three
miles south of Kotelnikovski,
where the Germans braced for
a terrific struggle.
The Russian onsurge closed in
from three sides of Kotelnikov-
ski, shA imporAant rail line cit
RaGel, and stoc | astride some
highways of escape at its rear.
Locked far in the rear of this
Russian arc of steel, Field Mar
shall Fedor Won Boc','s % Nazi
divisions remained surrounded
before Stalingrad within an en-
circlement which, the Russians
daily report drawing tighter.
The front is composed of these
three related operations:
1-1outhwest of Stalingrad,
where the Red army has moved
within light artillery range of
Kotelnikovski, closing in on
three sides of the town.
2-The fight around Miller
ovo, where the Russian drive
across the middle Don has push
ed on into the eastern Ukraine
and wedged south within 100
miles of Rostov "a the mouth OF
the Don on the sea of Azov.
3-On the Ukraine front, the
Russians reported the capture
of Chertkow, 90 miles northwest
of Millerovo and battlefront dis
patches said other nearby towns
had been won back under the
Red banner in a continuing adj
vance.
The deepest reported penetra-
ton through TIE Kotelnikovski
defense system was ut Nagolny,
three miles south of the city.
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LONDON, Dec. 30 R -
German Stuka planes were re-
ported today to have used new
type bombs-described by one
British officer as "silver balls
that crackle and seem to ex-
plode in the arm an attack
on q British column In the FL
Agheila area in Libya.
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Old Friends
Meet Again;
i'm Africa

NEW BALTIMORE-Privates
Wilfred Shinska and Ernest Ri
ward were fast friends here un-
til the war took both into the
arm.
Separated for a time, they
were reunited with the AEF in
North Africa, their m o h s
learned today.
Shinska is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Shinska: Rivard, the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Rivard.
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Civil Control

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-R
Secretary of the Navy Knox
reportsf today that n completes
IL satisfactory formula" had
been worked ont for restoring .
measure of civil control In the
territory of Hawaii which was
placed under military govern
ment following the japanese At
tack at Pearl Harbor December
Z, 1941.
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New Governor

MADISON, WIS, Dec. 20 -
(P)-The State Supreme court
ruled today that Lieutenant
Governor Walter S. GOOdland
should take over "the pow
ers and duties" of Governor
of Wisconsin on January 4. fill
ing the vacancy caused by the
death of Govern0r-elect Orland
S. LOOMS.
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Dragons Strike

WITH AMERICAN AIR FOR
CES IN CHINA, Dec. 27-Oe-
layed-(R)- Brig. Gen. Claire
l.. Chennault's fighters and
bombers destroyed three enemy
planes, probably marked off two
Others and created havoc among
japanese ground forces in a
series of sweeps against enemy
bases in Burma and Western
Yunnan Province today.
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Sink NaZi Ships

LONDON, Dec. 29-(R-Sub-
marines have sunk at least two
more Axis supply ships in the
Mediterranean and have prob
ably destroyed two others, the
Admiralty announced today.
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of army moral standards which
may require the drafting Of
about $500 Michigan men prev
iously deferred because of moral
reasons.
The announcement said men
hereafter will be placed in
Glass AT on moral grounds only
il they cannot be deferred on
other grounds or there Is no pos
sibility of their moral record be-
ing waived by the army. Previ-
ously, registrants having more
than one felony conviction were
not acceptable for military serv-
ice.
CITE WAIVERS
Waivers may be requested
upon the recommendation Of
local draft boards, based on a
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-Po
Secretary of the Navy Knox
said today that Navy casualty
lists, heretofore released only
for publication in local newspa-
per circulation territories, would
hereafter be made available for
publication on q nationwide
basis.
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Raj ON the Wing

FOLKESTONE, ENG, Dec.
29-(P)-RAF fighter squadrons
swept across the channel for op-
erations over the continent to-
day despite snow and q biting
cold Northwest wind.
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Penetrate Nazi
Defenses Near
kotelnikovSki
Germons Believed
Broeed for Grim,
Desperate Struggle
BY EDDY GILMOR-

MOSCOW, Dec. % - RD -
Col. Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's
Russian armies of the south
thrust forward today along a
3O0-mile front spread fanwise
from Novaya Kalitva, just south
of Rossosh, at the EDGE of the
Ukraine, to Kichkino, deep in
the windswept Kalmyc. steppes.
Where this front cuts across
the Stalingrad- Tikhoretsk rail-
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Yank Pilots
Maui Germans
Truck Convoy
Bothered from Air

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 20 - R
- Twin-engined P-38 Lightning
fighters, driving a record dist
ance into enemy territory, were
disclosed today to have destroy
ed 81 German trucks in a motor
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-
The war department reported
today that Allied troops had
withdrawn from a hill posi-
ton six miles northeast of
Medjez Ell Bah in Tunisa after
nflicting severe casualties on
the enemy.
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BERLIN (FrOm Germany
BrOadcasts), Dec. 81 R -
The Berlin radio said today
that United States troops had
entered GafSa, in Central Tu-
nisia, some zoo miles south
east of TuniS.
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ate X X X
| bulletins
YankS i'm GafSa

BERLIN (FrOm G e r m q n
Broadcasts) Dec. 29-(P-The
Berlin Radio said today that
United States troops aad entered
Gafsa, in Central Tunisia, some
zoo miles southeast of TuniS.