JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6.—
(*)-—Climbing through cold blue
skies more than five and one-half
miles over Jersey and Manhattan
today, Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y.,
flyer, who holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofficial alti-
tude record for women.

The altimeter on her speedy
Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
nearly 30,050 feet. The sealed
barograph placed in the plane by
the National Aeronautic association

(fimmtinwauatdt as Wann © fiat ® +
 WEATHER FORECAST,
Montana: Unsettled Satur-
day and Sunday; little change
in temperature,
 
Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 28 (AP)
Governor A. G. Sorlie, of North Dakota,
died here this morning,

Death was caused by heart failure
from which the Governor had been
critically ill for the past three days,

Arthur Gustave Sorlie was born in
1874, the son of natives of Norway, near
Albert Lea, Minn. When he was 19
years old he came to North Dakota.
He worked in a bank, operated a gen-

eral store, was a traveling salesman
and later entered the fuel, feed and
seed business at Grand Forks.

Governor Sorlie's death brings to the
executive chair Walter Maddock, the
lieutenant governor, who is a real dirt
farmer and ts rated a self-made man,
 