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Show CAPT. WILLIAM S. SMITH H,, ww iumj "iu.jiiui.nui !V '''' ' ' r it , Capt. William S. Smith, U. S. N., is holding down a new job created by Secretary of the Navy Daniels. He has been given the task of sorting the wheat from the chaff in the thousands of suggestions for naval inventions that have poured in since the outbreak of the European war turned the attention atten-tion of inventors to warlike instruments. instru-ments. The suggest'ons O. K.'d by Captain Smith will be turned over to the Edison advisory board for investigation inves-tigation and final acproval. |