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Show GERMAN MAY BE MAN TO DOOM SUBMARINES Baltimore, Md., May 14. Is Emll Gathmann, a Daltlmoro engineer with a Gorman namo, tho man who Is to get the chief credit for wiping out tho BUbmarlno monnco and materially ma-terially shortening tho war? Mr. Gnthmann, who Is an nctlvo member of tho American Association of Mining Engineers, refuses to nd-mlt nd-mlt that ho Is the inventor of tho dovlco thnt Chairman Saunders off tho naval consulting board declare will destroy tho U-boats. But seen at hla homo hero ho was unusually happy, and with a very broad smile" and an air of absolute contldenco he authorized this statement. "I can onlv sav this: Within thrcG or four mouths ther.c will bo no submarine sub-marine menace. Tho plan that will mean tho eradication of tho German U-boat nB a real monnco will take-about take-about that tlmo to bo worked out. When It has boon worked out and N In actual oporatlon, thou a statement of somo lclnil may bo mado." An Invention, it Is said by a good authority, was completed by Mr. Gathmann at tho plant of tho Gnthmann Gnth-mann Engineering company nt Texas Daltlmoro county, nbout tho middle of last month. At that tlmo Mr. Gnthmann went to Washington for a Sunday night conferonco with a naval official nnd ns a result naval engineers camo to Daltlmoro tho following day. It is understood thnt tlioy spent tho next (hroo days nt tho plant of Mr. Gathmann, Gath-mann, testing tho Invention which ho had porfectcd and working out In theory tho plan which ho had suggested sug-gested for tho use of his Invention. Tho lnvontlon, it Is understood, was approved nnd thon tho naval au-thbrltlos au-thbrltlos got In touch with other engineers en-gineers who had submitted other plans and thoao other engineers wero .told of tho Gathmann Invention. As a result, about twonty Boparato inventions in-ventions wore submitted by as many dltforcnt engineers, all of them based on tho Gathmann lnvontlon. Tho on-tlro on-tlro plan was thon taken under con-sldcratlo con-sldcratlo by Mr. Saunders, who submitted sub-mitted It to Mr. Edison. Tests of tho wholo plan on tho Atlantic coast then followed and, according to tho statement mado by Mr. Saunders and tho hints slnco mado by Mr. Gathmann, Gath-mann, they proved tho lnvontlon n success. ' i |