| 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.
 
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Aug. 28, (AP)—
Continuing conferences with re-

publican campaign managers in
the east, Herbert Hoover today
was assemblying information up-
on which to base a decision as to
the extent he will partieipate per-
sonally in the presidential fight
there,

William H. Hill, chairman of
the New York state Hoover com-
mittee, had an engagement with
the republican standard bearer ta
supplement the advices given him
yesterday by Charles D. Hilles,
national committeeman for New
York, and Daniel E. Pomeroy,
vice chairman of the New Jersey
committee,

Reports received by Hoover
since his return from the west
indicate that the eastern situation
is one requiring attention and his
advisers are urging him to go in-
to New York, Massachusetts and
New Jersey for at least one speech
for each state anq more of time
can ‘be found for them.

It is certain that he will take

 

 

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