| Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 28—(P)—
| Gov. A. G. Sorlie, of North Dakota,
died at the executive mansion here
at 3:45 o'clock this morning.
Death came after an illness of
more than a month, during the last
four days of which his condition bad
been critical. He was suffering
with heart disease.
‘Walter Maddock of Plaza, who
succe*ds Gevernor Sorlie as the
state's chief executive, will arrive
in the state capital today to assume
uis duties. :
Governor Sorlie’s death brings to
the executive's chair a real dirt
farmer and one who is rated as a
self-made, self-educated man- He
was educated in the common schools
‘and business college. Later he
studied law and civil engineering.
taking mail courses in those sub-
4 jects. se

Successor Experienced.
| Since 1966 he has opérated a farm
near Plaza and has been instrumen-
| tal ip forming several farmer co-op-
erative associations. He was elect-
ed iieutenant govérnor in recogni-
| tion of his services to the non-parti-
| 800 league as a member of the leg-
islature and his experience and abil-
| ity as a law maker. He was chair-
}man of the North Dakota delegation
to the last republican national con-
; vention.

In 1906 Governor Maddock mar-
ried Miss Marguerite Tierney of
_Grand Forks. They have four sons
and a daughter.

Arthur Gustav Sorlie was born
_ April 26, 1874 near Albert Lea, Minn.
_ His parents were Iver and Mary Sor-
| Hie, natives of Norway. When he
_ Was 19 years old he came to North
| Dakota, where he worked in a bank.
operated a general store and then
| becam~ a traveling salesman.

Ready to Retire.

' Im 1907 he launched in the fuel.
| seed and feed business at Grand
| Forks as A. G. Sorlie & Go. The en-
| terprise was successful and 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 es
_its standard bearer in 1924 and he
wen 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 yéar, saying that he
desired to retire to private life at
the end of his term.

In 1906 Governor Sorlie married
Miss Jennie Eodegard, who died
after bearing three children. In
1919 he married Miss Grace Hille-
_boe at Grand Forks and two chil-
_ dren were born.

_ One of Governor Sorlie’s most im-
| portant acts of his first term was
| the appointment of Gerald P. Nye
_to the United States senate to suc-
, ceed Senator E. F. Ladd, who died
| in cflice.
 
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States and the Soviet
Union Thursday signed an
agreement in principle to limit
and possibly reduce their
stockpiles of offensive nuclear
weapons by the end of 1974.

President Nixon and Soviet
Communist leader Leonid I
Brezhnev raised their cham-
pagne glasses in toasts to
success at the ceremony in the
White House East Room.

The agreement, the out-
standing accomplishment of
their week-long summit was
forged by Nixon and Brezhnev
earlier at Camp David, the
presidential retreat in the
mountains of Maryland. It is
 designed to spur negotiators for
the two countries at the
recessed strategic arms
limitation talks (SALT) in
Geneva’ *

For the first time, the two
nations committed themselves
in principle to actual reductions
of their nuclear weaponry as
well as to permanent
limitations. Also significantly,
the United States evidently is
bowing to Soviet objections to
on-site inspections.

One of the seven stated
principles provides that
“national technical means’’ be
the system of verifying whether
Washington and Moscow were
living up to a missile limitation.
 Surveillance of multiple
independently targeted
warheads (MIRVS) evidently
would be restricted mostly to
observation by radar and spy
satellite while in flight tests.

Henry A. Kissinger, the
President's national security
adviser, briefing newsmen,
said that ‘those MIRV
agreements that are not
verifiable by national technical
means would be difficult to
reconcile’’ with the objective of
restricting complex nuclear
offensive weapons.

The two nations agreed in
another provision that efforts
by one or the other to obtain a
nuclear advantage would be
 inconsistent with the goal of
strengthening peaceful
relations

The arms limitation en-
visioned by the end of next year
would include not only numbers
but the quality of the missiles.

Nixon and Brezhnev also
agreed that limitation on
strategic offensive arms must
be subject to ‘‘adequate
verification.’ Both nations
would be permitted to
modernize and replace
weapons only under conditions
to be agreed upon at Geneva.

At the same time, Nixon and
Brezhnev signed a 10-year pact
to expand cooperation between
the two countries on peaceful
uses of atomic energy. It
succeeds a series of two-year
agreements.

The major areas of the joint
arms effort include: (1) con
trolling thermonuclear fusion,
(2) research on ‘‘fast breeder”
reactors which create more
fuel than they consume; (3)
research on the fundamental
properties of physical matter

Nixon and Brezhnev flew
down by helicopter from the
Catoctin Mountains to sign the
historic document on the fourth
day of their summitry. A
similar arms understanding
between them in 1971 produced,
when Nixon went to Moscow to
see Brezhnev last spring, an
initial but limited nuclear
weapons agreement

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, the
President's national security

(See PACT, Page 16A)
 