Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-09

won the Junior chanrionship polo
tournament at the Westchester
Biltmore Country club here today by
defeating Bryn Mawr in the final
bracket by 16 goals to six. Fast
mounts, accurate hitting, and .
superior combination Of team work,
| accounted for the Army victory.
Boston, Aug. 7-LP-Two East
Boston children were kidnapped while
| playing in front of their homes today.
The children, Mario and Santina
Manlio, 9 and Z years old, respectfve-
| ly, lived here with their mother, Mrs
Theresa Manlio. Their father, Agil-
| lilo Manlio, disappeared a year ago.
when sought by police in connection
with a shooting ARRAY. Today two
men in a taxicab drove up to the
sidewalk where the children were at
play. lifted them into the machine,
and drove away. Police said one Of
the men resembled brother OF the
children's father, now reported to bs
| in New York.
New York, Aug Ben WEIGH OF
| los West Fifty-f1fth street. widely
known burlesque and musical COM
edy comedian, who has been blind
| for the last FIVE years. was removed
from Reception Hospital to Bellevue
late yesterday, according to the re-
| port of Patrolman Edward W. Dun
| can of the West Forty seventh street
station. He was placed in the pys-
| chopathic ward for observation, and
surgeons there said his condition
was serious. His chances for recoV-
cry are slight.
b. London. Aug. 7.-LP)-A radical re.
vision of all the war debt settlements
and the steady growth of tariff walls
in most cuntries, including Great
Britain, are foreseen by Lord Roth
ermore. well-known British publish
! err, in the course of an article APP
pearing in the Sunday Pictorial.
Camp Devens, Aug. 7.-Announce-
ment that the programme for the
Citizens Military Training CCamp
was to be altered so that more time
could he given for recreation was
received enthusiastically today by
couple of thousand student soldiers
who are in training here.
Jersey City, n. j., Aug. 7.-F1--
After a futile search in Jersey City
and surrounding cities, police today
| believed that Augustus Canes. VINO
| twice kidnapped his two daughters
| this week. had returned to his home
| in Manchester. y. H, with the chill
dren. Accompanied by his brother
William Canes appeared last night
at the home of relative on Clark
avenue, where his wife was staying.
and snatched the children, Evange-
| lique, aged four. and Catherine, 10
months. from a bedroom Mrs. Canes
told police her husband stole the
! children from their Manchester home
last Sunday after a quarrel. She had
| traced him here and recovered her
daughters the same day, only to lose
them again last night.
Buffalo. \. Y, Aug. 7.-tP-After
an all-night trial. the jury in the
case of the Rev. L. E. H. Smith to-
| day brought in a verdict of not
| guilty. The Rev. Mr. Smith was &C
jcused of public indecency. a policeman
swearing he found the clergyman in
a compromising position with wo-
man member of his congregation. in
a parked automobile late at night on
a country road. Mr.. Smith swore he
had been teaching the woman to
drive the car and they had stopped
to seek directions when they became
lost.
Concord. Aug. 7-Concord's tax rate
for 1926 has been fixed by the board
Of assessors at $3.50 on each $1,000,
this being an increase of only so
cents over last year, Although the
town has grown we'll in the past year.
the town grant was much larger than
in 1925 and this coupled with the fact
that the valuation of personal property
dropped some made the advance nee
essary. The total valuation of the
town is now placed at SS,29S,042.
] New Haven, Conn. Aug. Cor
oner Eli Mix, tonight held Antonio
! opposite of Providence in connection
7 with the murder in Wallingford
| Wednesday of Robert Molin of jack
son Heights, l.. l., to await investi-
! cation of the crime Esposito was ar
rested early this morning by the
| State Police.