European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Two eve witnesses describe fantastic Bikini spectacle 2 by Low Kappll r a former member 0f use associated press analysis Section and a Veteran of both the Pacific and european was on the scene As a War department Over Bikini Lagoon in a july 1 minutes before put on the metallic voice of the Bombardier crackled through the we tightened our Circle to stay in the orbit of planes flying Over Bikini Lagoon As Daves dream went in for the third the first two runs were this was the real we checked one minute to automatic tone signals with the bomb Carrier started to the navigator mechanically clicked off the bomb away then the atom bomb was hurtling we seconds seemed like like one of the spokes of a huge wheel suspended High in the our photographic b29s circled the target far below the battleship Nevada looked like a red Bug on a Blue carpet then continued on Page 8 by Frank editors a vice president of United represented the combined american press the european edition aboard a pres radio Obser vation plane Over july 1 crossed Over Bikini reef at Bikini the base of the atomic Cloud seemed to coverall the ships in the target two minutes later the Cloud started separating into two super imposed on each the uppermost assuming a creamy yellow the Bottom one pure then a moment later i the great moved Westward across the Lagoon at Bikini time a second Cloud was seen to form perhaps a mile away from the base of the first the atomic Cloud is out and losing its definite the base Cloud was across the Entrance Bikini the 4op Cloud seemed to hover sta1 the vast is now ragged and the top mushroom is attached by a fog like continued on Page unofficial Cwi pipe of aimed volume number 182 20pfg form to european the Carat july 1946 target ship afloat after bomb burst missing masterpieces provoke army search july 1 military government Art authorities said today that the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of dollars Worth of paintings from two castles near Coblenz classified As confidential and details could not be chief of the Fine arts and restitution said the paintings appeared More than a year ago he confirmed that two Amer concerning the disappearance but added that that was More than 12 months he said he knew nothing of the reported questioning of a British officer As reported in London news papers r Lafarge said that reports of the investigation were Given directly to Deputy military governor it Lucius who is in Paris at the foreign ministers value of some of the missing paintings were understood to have been valued at a Quarter of a million Lafarge said they were taken from the Buedingen and Ehre Breitstein Lafarge said he knew nothing of French detectives working on the a London daily Telegraph Dis Patch from Berlin said tonight that special Allied investigation officers had questioned two american offi cers and one British staff officer in Germany about the disappearance of valuable including a famed the dispatch said the paintings consisted of belgian and Ger Man masters stored by nazis in Buedingen and Ehre Breitstein Cas ties at Coblenz and that they had been removed a few weeks after the allies took Over the More than a year according to the have searched Art centers in new Amsterdam and Brussels to recover the the dispatch v said some of the paintings were valued at a Quarter of a million dollars and that the Rubens Canvas alone was Worth big 4 places Trieste Issue 1st on Agenda july 1 states Secretary of state James Byrnes demand of the Paris foreign ministers Council for a fixed Date for the general european peace conference will be the third Issue to be considered on the councils under a Compromise Agenda put Forward on saturday by the French foreign Georges the Council was to consider first the yugoslav italian Frontier including ownership of then Ehe italian the peace con Ference and German additional reaction was expected to the Bidault Compromise plan for which would internationalize the key port City for at least 10 years under United nations but with mixed  further arguments were expected of the italian Russia insists on some advisory voice in their and pending a final new dutch is formed the july 1 new dutch government has been formed and will be announced prime minister Louis Peel of the Catholic party Blandy Calls Bikini test successful9 by Don aboard the uss appalachian at july 1 battleship Nevada Bullseye of the Bikini targe was still floating after the atomic bomb burst naval observers today re entered Bikini five hours after the worlds fourth atomic bomb burst in Multi coloured brilliance Over the Guinea pig Fleet of 73 old ant found most had remained the official but incomplete toll showed three ships eight dam aged and eight others badly damaged vice adm p commander of the task Force described the Experiment As Suc new july 1 Fordham University reported its Seismograph recorded nothing at the explosion of the atom and James Secre tary of the termed the test a Well planned and Well executed in a broadcast from his uss mount said not a single person was killed or but one pilotless drone plane plunged into the sea before the bomb All other drones were successfully flown through the Clouds created by the bomb and re turned to bases for at Curtis whose super forts dropped atom bombs on described the continued on Page 8 the t paintings were originally looted from France by investigators reportedly have questioned a number of French detectives have joined american and British investigators in the Bidault sister testifies at collaborationist trial july 1 testifying in a trial of French miss Marcelle sister of Georges Premier of today described How Vichy police beat her and tortured her during the miss Bidault pointed to several of 15 defendants and identified four who took turns beating her with for stating that she was v Church party wins majority in zone Assembly election from press dispatches july in fluence of the Church made itself Felt on ballots yesterday As the Christian democratic Union emerged again As the strongest political party in american occupied voting for delegates to a new constitutional Assembly which will draft Charters for the three provinces in the zone before sept 71 per cent of All eligible voters went to the polls in their fourth free election since the fall of As in local the Church party ran up staggering leads in Rural Bavaria and gained an additional plurality in tiny but dropped greater westernmost of the american occupation states to the social democrats by a similar in final tabulations of the ballot Complete except for Wurtem the right Wing cd ran up a zonal total of votes As compared to for the runner up social other totals included for the communist while All other splinter parties including the Liberal demo economic free and the democratic Peoples party Only managed to amass a combined total of approximately As a result of the Caus failure to capture the vote in greater an established social democratic the state is expected continued on i Bikini to Day is what the explosion looked like a few seconds after the burst Mohe atom bomb from the sky Ridge of the uss Here one of the Navy observers watches the atomic Cloud boiling these Are associated press photos wire holed by press wireless to Frankfurt and then flown the stars and