SS eee ee Ua
ferences with Republican campaign
Taanagers jn the east, Herbert Hoov
er Tuesday. was assembling informa-
jtlom upon which to base a decision
az to-the extent he will participate
personally in the presidential fight
there.

Wiliam H. Hill, chairman of the
New York State Hocver committee,
had an engagement with the Repub-
lican standard hearer to supplement

(the advices given him Monday by
i Carles D. Hilies, narional commirtee-
man for New York, and Daniel E.
Pomeroy, ‘Vice chairman of the New.
| Jersey committee.

| Reporis received by Hoover since
‘his return from the west indicate
that the eastern situation is one re-
;quiring attention and his advisers sre
urging him to go into New York.
}) Massachusetts and New Jersey for at
[least one speech fer each siate and
more if time can be found for theft!

After he has canvassed the eastern
situation, he will be in a position to

fairly well map out his campaign up
to election time. It is certain ihat ne
will take advantage of his sing hack
to his home in California to vote for
making a se of addresses. Whether

hern route home,

 

 

 

 

he Will take the norti
through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mon-
tana and Oregon, er the southern
route remains to be determined.

| Before that time he very probably
Will zo into the middie west. speaking
at Chicago and some other cities, and
also into the border states.

 

  
 
Oe 2NO AASSGOCINted koress )

Bismarek, N. 0, Aug. vs.— CP)
Governor A. G. Serle ef North La-
kota, died here this mourning,

Death was “caused by heart di-

sease from which the governor bas
ceen ‘critically ill for the past three
i days.
( <Arthur Sorlie was born April 20,
USt4 near Albert Lea, Minn. His
parents were Iver und Mary Sorlie,
wits of Norway. When he was
nineteen years old he came to North
Dakota where he worked in a bank,
operated a general store and later be-
came a traveling salesman.

In 1907 he entered the fuel, seed
and “feed business at Grand Forks as
A. G,. Sorlie and Company. The énter-
prise was successful and was the basis
for a considerable fortune which he
later aecumulated in other business
endeavors.

Despite his extensive interests, the
Non-Partisan League selected him as
its standard bearer in 1924 and he
won the gubernatorial election after
a hot fight with R. A. Nestos, the
Republican incumbent. He was re-
elected ‘in 1926, but did not seek re-
nomination this yenr.

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

‘Since 1906 he has operated a farm
near Plaza and has heen actiye in
forming several farmer cooperative as-
sociations. He was chairman ct the
North Dakota delezation to the last
Republican national convention.
 