3000 HOMELESS IN TYPHOON

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28050, 18 August 1956, Page 11

3000 HOMELESS IN TYPHOON

Heavy Damage In Japan

(Rec. 10 p.m.) TOKYO, August 17. Gale-driven downpours made more than 3000 persons homeless when a typhoon moved over Kyushu, Japan s most southerly island, this morning. The typhoon reached Japan after brushing Okinawa and the Amami and Oshima Islands. Emergency signals in Nagasaki, Kagoshima and Miyazaki reported that great waves were breaking over the sea walls and rivers were bursting their protective revetments. Heavy damage was feared to the bumper rice crop Qn which Japan was depending. Progress reports on casualties at 9.3 U a.m. were: six dead, eight injured, and four missing. There were 20 breaks in railroads five bridges destroyed, nine landslides 21 vessels adrift, and four wrecked Artist Wins £l5OO With Unknown Model (Rec 7 p.m.) SYDNEY. August 17. A Sydney artist, Charles Doutney, has won a £l5OO paintine competition organised by an Australian women s magazine with a study of a young girl whose name he still does not know. Mr Doutney’s picture is of a young girl standing in a gateway. He said he “found” the girl in King’s Cross whose haunts and people have been the subject ot most of his paintings. “She oosed five or six times for me. but I never knew her by any other name than ‘Dita,’ ” he said.