Show La e Policeman Invents Device to Destroy Destray Boats V-Boats J t R A ACHIE HIN I IS ISal lilt al sephus ij-sephus ephus Daniels Secretary f Navy Writes Letter 0 it Asking kins Further Details Detail Concerning the t h e Device L iL the inventive genius 0 of a Vj Salt Lake policeman solve I problem of safely transport- transport Sams Sam's troops to France Francee 1 is question will be answered few w weeks when a device invented r eon can Mayhew a local patrolman 5 r been tested in an Atlantic port gh naval officials sephus Daniels secretary of the taken a personal interest in Chews Chew's thew's Phew's device and has sent him request to submit come com- com e plans and specifications to the theal theis al is board at Washington without bc he policeman's policeman s invention is an ap- ap simple method of capturing fired from gunboats or sun sun- jines Jnes nes A transport or battle ser equipped with Mayhew's in- in will be able to sail the seas utter Butter safety from the menace of craft Cr f if i the plan n proves the the danger from submarines anti and can be overcome the 4 51 of safely transporting the Amert- Amert larmy army to Europe will have been ed Id declares he conceived his me in his leisure hours at home walking a beat on the city its all day Originally he says ad d no intention of submitting his hise e e. e to Washington as he began ring hig tig on the plan merely to pastime pass pas time lime away He completed a fh hl ketch however after making Sus Jus us changes which he exhibited former naval en engineer ineer At the theis is rs sv suggestion Mayhew l sub- sub id d his idea to Secretary Daniels personal letter t was several weeks ago Now Jin in in receipt of three letters from ington one of them a a personal est from the secretary of the c He was informed that naval peers veers had reported favorably on OIl plan and had requested that fur fur- and complete plans bo be to them at once 4 hat is regarded as an indication I plan is considered im- im 1 int nt by naval engineers Is the fact the patrolman was instructed to toIse tois is Ise the greatest caution in sub- sub g his plans and specifications to hington was ordered to have a com com- blueprint of the invention made Ig me reliable draftsman whoso whose falso also will be bo forwarded to Wash- Wash In mJ hen the plans and specifications w Mayhew is ordered to hem into four sections and mail TUo to the secretary fo the navy pertly per- per illy at different intervals ch a method of transmitting his ft DO De would prevent the possibility J h ie is plans falling into the hands lemy emy agents in the he event one of was lost in the mails els B e specifications are written veral dozen small sheets of IJ r. r With only a few words on ong g fife These also are to be sent a af efat f at t a time under separate covers according to instruction Continued Continue on page e 6 6 6 NA NAVAL VAL OFFICERS I i Continued Continual from page I 1 Mayhew's device for capturing tor tor- is not his first invention A Afew Afew Afew few years ago he devised an automatic automatic auto matic maUc stop for phonographs which he ho sold for 1000 Ills His photograph and an illustrated article on his first invention appeared In a magazine devoted devoted de de- de voted to mechanics The patrolman inventor-patrolman Is a a. veteran of the Spanish-American Spanish war and was born on a farm fann in northern Utah He has been a member of the local police force for several years |