WASHINGTON, auy.  2%.—Con- |
tinuings converences with Republi- |

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can campaign managers in the east, |
Herbert Hoover today was assem- |
hling information upen whieh toj|
base a decision as to the extent he!
Will participate personally in the:
presidential f'grht there. i
William H. Hill, cnairman of the
New York State Hoover eormmittee,
had an engagement with the te |
publican standard hear to suple- |
ment the advices giveua him vester- |
Gay by Charles D. Filles, national;
committeeman from New York, and!
Daniel E. Pomeroy, vice’ chairman
of the New Jersey committee.
Reports received by Hoover since
his return from the west Indicate
thet the eastern situation is one
requiring attention and his advisers
are urging him to go into New
York, Massachusetts and New Jer-!
sey for at least one speech. in each |

state. i

It is certain that he will take |
advantage of his swing back to nis |
home in Califérnia for making a
series of addresses.

Befere that time he very probably
will go into the middle west, speak-
ing at Chicago and some other j
cities, and also inte the border
states, but these eddresses3 rare
likely to follow those in the east. |

Representatives of the Republi. |
ean candidate still were seeking
today to secure a buiJding in which
to open his personal headquarters.

The delay is causing: the norninee
some inconvenience as he has no
place to carts on his office work. |
He also wants a suitable assembly- ;
ing place for delegations that will
come here tu see him and’ for the
accommodation of the newspaper
corregpondents assigned to his
headquarters.
 
BISMARK, N. D., Aug. 28.

Gov. A. G. Sorlie, of North ota,
died here this morning.

Death was caused by ; di-
sease from which the Go wv has
been critically ill for the past thtee
days.

Arthur Gustave Sorlie was
April 26, 1874;; near Alderte .
Minn., his parents were Iver

Mary Sorlie, natives of ' ay.
When he was 19 years old he
to North Dakota where he ed

‘in a bank, operated a general
and later became a traveling sales-
man,

In 1907 he entered the fuel, ser
and feed business at Grand Forks
as A. G. Sorlie and company. The
enterprise was successful anq Was
the basis for a considerable fortune
which he later accumulated in other
business endeavors.

Despite his extensive interests,
the ‘non-partisan league selected
him as its standard bearer in 1924
and he worm gubernatorial election
after a hot fight with R. A. Nestos,
the republican incumbent. He was
reelected in 1926, but did not seek
renomination this year, saying that
he desired to retire to private life.
at the end of his term.

In 1900 Gov. Sorlie married Miss
Jennie Odegard, who dieq later. In
1919 he married Miss Grace Hille-
boe at Grand Forks.

The first important act of office
came to Governor Sorlie when in
his first term he appointed Gerald
P. Nye, to the United States Senate
te succeed Senator FE. F. Ladd who
died in office.

Governor Sorlie’s death brives to
the executive's chair Walter Mad-
dock, the Lieutenant Governer
who is a real dirt farmer. and ‘s
rated a self made man. Later he
studied law nd civil engineering
taking mail courses in those sub
jects.

Since 1906 he has onerated a farm
near Plaza and has been active in
forming several farmer cooperativ:
associations. He was elected Lieute
nant Governor in recognition of his
services to the non-partisan leacue
as a member of ‘the legislature and
his experience as a law maker He
was chairman of the North Dakots
delegation to the last republican na-
tional convention.
 