| BISMARCK, N. D., AUG. 28. (AP).—Governor A. G. Sorbie of North
Dakota, died here this morning.

Death was caused by heart trouble from which the governor has been
veniticaly ill for the past three days.
Arthur Gustave Sorbie was born in 1874, the son of natives of Norway
‘near Albert Lea, Minnesota. When he was nineteen years old, he came to
| North Dakota. He worked in a bank, operated a general store, was a travel-
ling salesman and later entered the fuel, seed and feed business at Grand
Forks.

Governor Sorbie’s death brings to the executive's chair Walter Maddock,
| the Lieutenant Governor who is a rea) dirt farmer and is rated a self-made
‘man.
 
 

., JERBEY CITY, N. J, March
& ()—Climbing through eold

- blue'skies more than ive and
one-half miles over Jersey and.
Manhattan today, Miss Ruth
Nichols. Rye, -N. ¥., fer, who

holds the coast-to-coast speed
marks, set an unofficial alti-
tude record for women.

The altimeter on her speedy
Lockheed - Vega monoplane

. Showed near}y 30,050 feet, The
sealed barograph plaved in the
plane bythe National Aero-
naulic.association was imme-
diately shipped to Washington

‘ Yor examination. If it shows
28,074 feet, or more, Miss Nich-
ols will be awarded the record
now held by Elinor - Smith,

: young Long Island filter...

: Miss: Nichols was: informed
that do attain recognition as
the record holder she must beak
Miss Smith's mark of 27,418
feet by. more than 600 feet.

. She took off trom Jersey City

- airport at 12:33 p.m. and was
alofi:.60. minutes, .' There was
a 30-mile wind blowing when
she circled the.city, swung over
Manhattan and started the
tong climb, 7

 
 