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Show HAS LOST "MAYFLOWER BEEN FOUND? (By Milton Bronner, European Manager Mana-ger N. E. A.) Dr. Rendcl Harris, a great English scholar, who is an authority on paleog raphy at Cambridge university, be jlieves he has discovered the remains of that Immortal liip which bore the Pilgrim Fathers to America. He thinks the original timbers of the I ' pe are in a groat barn at Old Jor dan's farmstead. Chal, font Si Gilei Buckinghamshire. He founds his case! on a combination ot historical aud ma-1 terlal evidence. Historically he has been able to The barn at Old Jordan's, showing show-ing heavy timbers, thought to have come from the Mayflower, a picture pic-ture of which is Inset. show that the owner of the farm at I tho date when the Mayflower dlsap peared, also owned a quarter share in the vessel. Another quarter share was owned by n farmer living near by It had been shown that Ihe flop was in the whaling trade as late as 1654. The presumption is that soon after ihai tiim she wag broken up fo: her timbers. Four material points are cited as presumptive evidence that the barn I M contains the Mayflower timbers. First, the timbers have been exam- J ined by an expert and pronounced to ( bo old ship's timber of a vessel about I the size of the Mayflower 180 tons Second, the brickwork on which tho timber walls rest has been pronounce.i lo belong to the seventeenth century. Third, one of the timbers has an j iron attachment which appear to have been part of a ship's keel; nnd Fourth, remains of a carved lnscnp- tlon, which points to the Mayflower, have been discovered. |