European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 9 Book claims new facts. In Jack the Ripper Case London a Jack the Ripper the victorian murderer who terrorized London 99 years ago and was never caught was a failed barrister and schoolmaster named Montague John Druid two writer say in a new Book published thursday. Chiefs of Scotland Yard the London police Headquarters and of the Home office which controls the police knew it was Druitt who slew and mutilated five prostitutes in the a Hill Chapel slum District claim Martin Howol Sand Keith Skinner in the Ripper legacy the life and death of Jack the Ripper but the authorities kept quiet because Ruilt was Friendly with a lot of important people who were homosexuals How cts told inc associated press he alleged they included Queen Victoria s grandson the Duke of Clarence in line to succeed his father to the throne. When Druid was found dead in inc River thames in j8s8, soon after the task murder the Yard was Able to close its file on inc Ripper satisfied the affair was Over but leaving Trie Public in ignorance the writer said. Bui the mystery won l die Down because nobody except us really wants it to be solved Howells said with a sigh. Official files on inc Ripper remain secret. Howells and Skinner base their claim on confidential notes left 10 his daughter by sir Melville main Aghion who led he Yard s detectives. The same notes were used by two other writers Dan Parson and Tom Cullen to identify Ruilt As a prime suspect in heir books about the mystery in 1965 and Bui howls and Skinner who spent five years on their quest say they Are the first to investigate Ruilt As the Ripper and to suggest he was murdered by a High placed associate. Truiti s friends were convinced he was the Ripper and knew investigation of him would expose themselves and drag the Royal family into the mud As i hair suspect in the death of Ruilt. He authors Point an abusing Finger at Henry Francis Wilson who they allege was a Lover of Clarence from their student Day Sal Cambridge University. They say Wilson and the Young Duke were members of inc Cambridge secret society known As the apostles Many of whom were homosexual. The soviet spies Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt were homosexual apostles in the 1930s. Ruilt was at Oxford and therefore not an apostle. Bui he knew Wilson and other barrister members of the society. The authors say Mac Naghtin s Solcs said Druitt was sexually insane a euphemism for homosexuality and that the police chief also said Drain s family suspected him of the Ripper murders. Wilson had a House it Chiswick that was adjacent to the wharf where Truiti s body was recovered from the River. The Coroner said Drill killed i in self while of unsound mind. Druid s Legal career never look off and he had to Lake a temporary Job As a schoolmaster. His father s death in 1885 left him without private Means to keep up with his High flying associates and in july 1888, his Mother went insane and was committed loan Asylum. The authors think Ruilt May have blamed her madness on syphilis a disease associated with prostitutes and thai he feared he was going mad himself. His route to the Asylum to visit his Mother would have taken him film his school through unit Chapel. The Ripper murders and  began aug. 31, 1888. With the killing of Mary Nichols continued with Annie Chapman sept. 8, Annie stride and Catherine eddows both sept. 29 and ended with Mary Jane Kelly Cut to pieces on nov. 9. Drill was tired by his school for unknown reasons nov. 30 and appears to have drowned the next Day. Photo of Ripper suspect Montague John Ruilt. The police Hunt was scaled Down after the inquest said Howells. James Mouro inc police chief commissioner had recommended on Dee. 7,1888, thai his defectives in while Chape be paid extra to endure the Winter. But on Jan. 26, 1889, he told the Home office he was reducing the number of men on special  the Duke of Clarence never reached the throne dying of influenza in 1892, before his father became King Edward Vii. Publishers Sidgwick and Jackson said the Book is on offer to several publish ing houses in the United Stales vows to improve consumer services Gorbachev reveals plans to hike food prices soviet food prices in Donara per Pound except b9 noted converted from rubles it rate of one Rufe equal . $1.58 Farmer Market strawberries Charles cucumbers Loose Tea 1.75 01.letiucs, anal Spring onions. Sin talks Rodehe 9ta to a Bunch Moscow a soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev said his country must enact major food Price increases to Reform the Economy but promised to use inc fruits of his reforms to improve services like medical care and education. Gorbachev in a nationally televised speech thursday from the Arctic City of Murmansk sought to reassure Consumers they would be consulted about the Price increases necessary to end billions of rubles in subsidies for Basic food items. He lashed Oul at wastefulness and Sloppy work hat he said is slowing Down economic Progress. He applauded what he said were reports from Murmansk official that workers were pressuring bureaucrats for better social services and eco nomic Reform and indicated the Kremlin would be trying o pare the bureaucracy. A luminary of his remarks was released Fri Day by the Tasi news Agency and the full text of the speech took up two and a half pages in offi Cial newspapers printed Friday the papers were delayed apparently so they could print Gorbachev s full speech. Gorbachev acknowledged that Consumers Are worried by his plans to Reform the Economy. These apprehensions boil Down to the follow Hie to not inc present leadership planning to solve All the problems of the Economy by lower ing the people s living standards he said. However he said no one values the food products available because they Are too cheap and people with More Money to spend were Able to Lake the Best advantage of the huge subsidies. Bread costs As Lille As the equivalent of about 30 cents a loaf. One can see children using a loaf of bread As a Ball in football he said. Gorbachev added Hal inc average annual per capita consumption of meal 62 kilograms costs about inc same alone pair of women s boots 120 to Ijo Rublis about $180 Loi 00. However the most important thing is that families with targe incomes consume More meal and milk and Conw quintly take advantage of the subsidies to a greater degree he said in comparison prices arc higher in Western countries he said. Cooperative arms stores a one her sour Cream 6.75ebbs 10 to package Honey one Pound Cheddar Chene one Pound butter Tot sausage on Pound beet Boup Quattone Pound hot eggs 10topackbb 1.10m, Ozettar 7nt Cheddar cheese one Pound 2.08 Street vendors Orange drink a of. In Cream 3.5 02 29cnti 42 Cento hots prices from Volgograd major Industrial area in scum Central Russia a to xxv grip Stuik cart Raj of Tattum no it Pool we Are ready to invest additionally in health care just like in the educational sphere the Maxi mum share of what we will produce Over and above plans,1 he said. Even today additional financial resources to the sum of 5.6 billion rubles $8.4 billion were found and devoted to urgent needs of health care for the remain ing three years of the five year plan he said. Soviet economists like Abel Aga Begyan a key adviser to Gorbachev have said a Radical restructuring of prices is needed to reflect real costs encourage Thrift and stimulate productivity. At present prices of All goods in the soviet Union from automobiles to paper clips Are fined by state bureaucrats in Moscow and do not necessarily relate to the Cost of production or Market demand. A revamped pricing system is lobe put unplaced using the next few years Ana Aga Begyan has said that salaries might have to be raised to compensate for higher prices Gorbachev applauded indication from local officials that working people were pressuring mid level bureaucrats for Buller social . Everything is the business of working people he said. It is their country. They Are masters. Party organizations cadres serve the people us entire party serves Thep Copic. Not the other Way around he said. Gorbachev said cutting management staff would be a significant form of sayings Tut he indicated it would not be done by leaving people unemployed. There is work galore in the country and wort will be found Tor everyone a lot of work he said. At several Points in his speech Gorbachev lashed Oul at waste of the soviet Union s products and natural resources. Just think of All the losses incurred in Harvest ing and the storage of farm produce Wood rutting and construction he said. We sell Are irn Permis Sibly. Criminally wasteful and  he did h was shameful the my the soviet Union squanders is natural resources in inefficient production a ing Suvil efficiency is about half thai i fits Gorbachev said the Kremlin Reform drive was now entering a Colic us Ilu a and that scuds Shoul j not Wail for orders from above. You know what inc political guidelines Arr he id. There is a need for at lion now for the initiatives of the Masics