The news, as printed onFriday, October 29, 1926

As printed: DEFENSE NOW RESTS IN THE AIMEE TRIAL

ContextAimee Semple McPherson, founder of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, disappeared from a beach in May and reappeared weeks later near the Arizona-Mexico border saying she had been kidnapped; she, her mother Minnie Kennedy and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff face conspiracy charges. A preliminary hearing decides only whether a magistrate will hold defendants to answer in superior court, and a brief is a written legal argument filed with the judge.

As printed: SEEK ANOTHER EYE-WITNESS IN HALL-MILLS CASE

ContextThe Rev. Edward W. Hall, a New Brunswick, N.J., rector, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead on the abandoned Phillips farm in September 1922; the case was reopened this summer and is being prosecuted at Somerville by special prosecutor Alexander Simpson. Mrs. Jane Gibson, a farm woman known in the papers as the "pig woman," has said she witnessed the killings.

As printed: RAMMED SHIP CREW CHOKED BY FUMES

ContextThe freighter Louisiana, carrying sulphuric acid, was rammed at the mouth of the Mississippi River by her sister ship Madison; a pilot boat is a small vessel that carries river pilots out to ships entering port.

As printed: MARIE OBSERVES BIRTHDAY ON TRAIN

ContextMarie, queen of Rumania and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, is touring North America with her son Prince Nicolas and her daughter Princess Ileana; she is also writing a signed series of impressions for American papers, printed here alongside the day's dispatch.

As printed: LONDONER CLAIMS HE GETS MESSAGE FROM MARTIANS

ContextDr. Mansfield Robinson handed a wireless message addressed to Mars in at a London radio office; signalling the planet had been a recurring subject in the press since the close approach of 1924. A telepathist claims to send and receive thoughts without instruments, and Guglielmo Marconi developed practical wireless telegraphy at the turn of the century.