European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 20, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 most people assume that the swans on the Binne Napster in Hamburg West Germany Are for decoration. Maybe they Bottoms up at Chow time Are but they get hungry too just like any other Bird. Their artistic image in t helped though when they flops a Brenda Hester Over and Dart Down for food and All you see is a Tail that looks like a scruffy iceberg. Police unveil chilling Jack the Ripper mementos London a police unveiled Long lost evidence from the Case of Jack the Ripper on thursday saying it helped fill in the historical Puzzle surrounding the murderer who terrorized the City a Century ago. But they said the recovered police photographs and documents including a chilling letter allegedly from the Ripper cast no new Light on the identity of one of history s Best known criminals. His five victims All prostitutes fell prey to the murderer s knife in the seamy East end of London during a nine wee period beginning aug. 31, 1888. Most were disembowel a and mutilated. We re quite pleased that they Are incur Possession now said metropolitan police Deputy commissioner John Del Low surrounded by the evidence in Plas tic packets. We can t say at this Stag where or How they became detached or where they be been since but they Are of some interest to us. They fill in the historical Jigsaw of the Ripper murders and one or two other things he told reporters at new Scot land Yard police Headquarters. But he did not think it brought anyone closer to knowing who the Ripper was. The yellowed Ripper letter written i neat script and red Ink laughs at the police for their failure to catch him. I keep hearing the police have caught me but they won t fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so Clever an talk about being on the right track it starts. I am Down on whores and i Shan t quit ripping them till i do get  Dellow said part of the evidence a Seton postmortem Black and White photo graphs of the Ripper s victims were Given to police last year by the family of a deceased policeman. It was not known How they came into his Possession he said. The second set of evidence appeared More mysteriously in a Plain Brownen veloce mailed to police from Croydon South London earlier this year. As Well As the Ripper letter whose contents have been known the envelope contained the announcement of a Pardon for anyone with knowledge of the rip per original postmortem notes on the last victim Mary Kelly and documents about an 1889 crime thought possibly Mohave been the work of the Ripper. Dellow said there s been a consider Able amount of time spent on this to Tryand identify where documents might have been in the last few years but it remains a mystery. Donald Rumbelow who has written two books on Ripper crimes told the associated press the recovery of the Evi Dence was important in the sense that. A lot of police papers were scattered thrown away destroyed. So anything which plugs gaps is actually doing us All a great  Dellow said at least we know behave a More Complete file. Obviously these things were missing from the re Cord. They re now Back  he said the documents would be Given to the Public records office where other police files were sent in 1951. The photographs probably would be shown in a police museum such As the Black museum Scotland Yard s resting place for exhibits from Britain s most notorious crimes. It is closed to the Public. Later thursday British broadcasting corp. Television previewed a television documentary that will be shown in sep tember titled Shadow of the Ripper which examines social and historical Rea sons Why the spate of crimes became so legendary. The program is one of several by Bot British and . Television producers which the Centenary has sparked along with walking Tours of London video games to shirts and other Memorabilia. . Postal service announces 89 stamp issues Washington a special stamp issues including one honouring world expo 89, the first stamp exhibition sponsored by the . Postal service and the Universal postal Union have been announced. Upu the International organization that coordinates mail delivery Between nations and the postal service rescheduled to meet in Washington in no vember 1989. In addition to a single stamp honouring the expo two sets of four Stamps in Dif Ferent formats will be issued. Designs were not announced. Another undisclosed Sheet stamp Sev eral postal cards and an International programme honouring Montgomery Blair Abraham Lincoln s postmaster general also will be issued. The annual american sports stamp features new York Yankee Star Lou Gehrig the ironman who played a re Cord 2,130 consecutive games for the Bronx bombers. Arturo Toscanini famed orchestra Leader will appear on the performing arts stamp. The annual Black heritage series Hon ors labor Leader a. Philip Randolph while philanthropist Johns Hopkins willbe the 1989 entry in the great Ameri cans series. Next Spring the postal service plans production of a five stamp Booklet Fea Turing historical steamboats that plied the nation s lakes and Rivers in the last Century helping to tie America together. Dates for All of the Stamps have no yet been determined but the postal serv ice said a Block of four Dinosaur Stamps featuring giant reptiles common to North America will be issued sometime in the fall. Next year also will see single Stamps to Mark the Centennial of North Dakota South Dakota Montana and Washington  Constitution series will continue with Stamps recognizing the Bic Entenni als of North Carolina the House of representatives the Senate the inauguration of George Washington and the drafting of the Bill of rights. The Bicentennial of the French Revo Lution will be marked by a joint stamp Issue with France. There will be a stamp recognizing there colombian Peoples and customs of the americas and a new love stamp along with the traditional pair of Christmas Stamps. Postal cards planned for next year in clude ones honouring Georgetown University s Healy Hall the Oklahoma land Rush and new issues in the America the Beautiful series