Evening star., 1937-12-22
FRANK B. KELLOGG
TO Be BURIED HERE
Body OF Statesman Will Be
Inferred in Washington
Cathedral.
~ the Associated Press.

~ tho Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Dec 22-Minnesota and
the Nation mourned TO-DAY the death
Of Frank B. Kellogg, son OF pioneer
parents who raised himself to the
heights OF world craftsmanship.
The former Secretary of State
diplomat and World Court Judge died
last night on the eve Of his 8lst BIRTH
day anniversary. He was stricken
with cerebral thrombosis early last
month. His physician, Dr. J. A. Lepak
said bronchial pneumonia which de-
veloped last Saturday was the imme-
diate cause Of death.
With him at the end were Mrs. Kel-
logg, DR.. Lepak, household servants
and relatives. Besides Mrs Kellogg
survivors include Mrs. Burnham
Harris and Mrs. Robert D. Clark
nieces, both of ST. Paul; a sister, Mrs
Jean K. Austin and her daughter
Mrs. Seabury Stanton, both Of New
Bedford, Mass, and another niece
Mrs. John Bradshaw Of Madison. N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kellogg had no children
During his long career in public life,
Kellogg served as United States Sena-
tor from Minnesota. Ambassador to
the Court of ST. James, Secretary OF
State and Judge OF the World Court
He was named to the latter two posts
by former President Calvin Coolidge.
Lauded in England.
News of Mr.. Kellogg's death was
received with deep regret in England
where the British press had termed
him "the silent diplomat" and "the
friendly ambassador" during his serv-
Ice in London. In France, a Spokes-
man for the French Foreign Once
called him "one of the worlds greatest
champions of peace
Mrs. Kellogg announced funeral
services would be held Thursday in
the Church of st. John the Evangelist
The body then will be sent to WASH
ington for burial in the Washington
Cathedral. Plans for the Washington
services have not been made, she said
DR.. Lepak said the premature an
nouncement of Kellogg's death IL
minutes before it actually occurred
was prompted by condition not at
all unusual in such cases."
He had been in coma since about
noon Monday with breathing very IL
regular" the physician said. Some
times it seemed to have stopped COM
pletely and stimulants were admin
fstered. This seeming occurrence OF
death came frequently and at 7:1O
p.m.. some member of the family circle
reported to the press the patient had
died"
Author of Kellogg BRAND Pact.
The Kellogg BRAND pact, in which
80 nations Joined to renounce war al
an instrument Of national policy, was
the highlight of Mr.. Kelloggs career
4 line of achievement which took him
from pioneer Minnesota farm through
the mutations of law and politics tc
successive regulations as corporation
lawyer. trust buster United States
Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain
Secretary of State and, finally, Judge
of the Permanent Court of Interna-
tional Justice at The Hague.
When MIR. Kellogg rendered hi;
resignation from the internationa
tribunal on September 9. 1885, he
wrote "finis" to public activities which
embraced stretch of 81 years.
Mr.. Kellogg and Aristide BRAND,
Frances apostle Of peace whose
names were joined in the anti-war
pact, each gave the other credit for
originating the idea 1t grew from a
1927 Easter message of good will
issued by BRAND through the Associ-
ated Press to the American people in
which he proposed that America and
France forever renounce war upon
each other.
That message. pigeon-holed for
months In the State Department was
hauled out of obscurity the following
Christmas tide at the behest of Presi-
dent Coolidge when Jane Adams, Chi
cago's world-famouS social worker,
called 1t to his attention.
Pact Signed August 27, 1928.
It was translated at first into q
Franco American agreement for per-
petual friendship, then blossomed into
. worldwide idea, was publicized and
pushed in various capitals until finally
there was rush to join in the declara-
ton. With Mr.. Kellogg welding the
FIRST pen and M. BRAND the second
the pact was signed formally by Is
nations at Paris on August 81, 1928
Later more than two score other gov
ernments gave formal notification of
their acceptance of the terms.
The treaty brought worldwide ac-
claim to the joint authors and award
Of the 1929 Nobel peace prize to Kel-
logg. But it didn't halt war, nor did
1t check aggression. China. the United
States. Great Britain and other powers
cited it in vain when Japan carved
Aanchukuo out of Northeast China
IN 1881, and Ethiopia, without effect,
called attention to the fact that both
she and Italy were gnatories when
the latter invaded the African mon
archy in 1885. Critics of the treaty
always said that it was futile because
It lacked teeth"
Born December %, 1856.
Mr.. Kellogg was born in Potsdam,
N. Y. December %, 1856, the son of
Asa Farnsworth and Abigail Billings
Kellogg. When Ne was 9>the family
migrated to Minnesota and, with only
rural schooling as a foundation. he
started to study law at the age of 10
In the Office of a Rochester attorney,
who paid him for combination clerical
and janitor work by guiding his
studies
The early struggles to gain recogni-
hon in his profession were reinforced
by his local political ofices, and it was
the district attorneyship which he won
from his law partner in 1881 and held
for five years that gave Mr.. Kellogg
his first big opportunity. One of the
heritages of the ofIice was a case
against a railroad company which had
hung fire for several years. Cushman
K. Davis, already leading legal light
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