The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-22
JAP B0MBERS ROARING OVER TSlNCTA0
Internationally Knomn Diplomat, Frank Kellogg,
 Dies On Eue of Birthday

7:28 o'clock last night. The former Secretary of State, World Court Judge, and co-author of the Kel- logg -Briand Peace Pact, would have been 81 years of age today.
 Kellogg was stricken with pneu- monia last Saturday after several weeks illness with cerebral throm- boSis.
 The Kellogg -Briand pact, in which 59 nations joined to renounce war as an instrument of national policy, was the highlight of Frank B. Kellogg's career, line of achievement which took him from a pioneer Minnesota farm through the mutations of law and politics to successive regulations as cor poration lawyer, trust buster, United States Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain, Secretary of State and, finally, Judge of the Perma- nent Court of International Justice at The Hague.
 When Kellogg rendered his resig- nation from the International Tri- bunal on September g, 1885, he wrote "finis" to public activities which em- braced stretch of 57 years.
 Peace From Easter
 Kellogg, and Aristide Briand Frances Apostle of peace" whose names were joined in the anti-war pact, each gave the other credit for originating the idea. It grew from a 1927 Easter message of good will issued by Briand through The Associated Press to the American people in which he proposed that America and France forever re- nounce war upon each other.
 That message, pigeon-holed for months in the State Department al Washington, was hauled out of ob- scurity the following Christmas tide at the behest of President Cool idge when Jane Addams, Chicago's world famous social worker, called it to his attention.
 For Perpetual Friendship
 It was translated at first into a Franco American agreement for perpetual friendship, then blossomed into a worldwide idea, was public ized and pushed in various capitals until finally there was rush to join in the declaration. With Kel- logg, welding the first pen and Briand the second, the pact was signed formally by Is nations at Paris on August 27, 1928. Later more than two score other govern ments gave formal notification oi their acceptance of the terms.
 World Wide Acclaim The treaty brought worldwide &C., claim to the joint authors and award of the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize to Kellogg. But it didn't halt war, noI did it check aggression. China, the United States, Great Britain and other powers cited it in vain when Japan carved Manchoukuo out ot northeast China in 1881, and Ethio- pia, without effect, called attention to the fact that both she and Italy were signatories when the latter in- vaded the African monarchy in 1935. Critics of the treaty always said that it was futile because it lacked teeth"
 Politics by Firm
 Frank Billings Kellogg was born in Potsdam, N r., December 22 1856, the son of Asa Farnsworth ano Abigail Billings Kellogg. When he was g, the family migrated to Min nesota and with only rural school ing as a foundation, he started tc study law at the age of 19 in the office of Rochester attorney, who paid him for combination clerica and janitor work by guiding his stu dies.
 In 1877 Kellogg was admitted te the bar. The next year he was elected City Attorney of Rochester In 1880 he formed a partnership with Burt w. Eaton, but clients were few and the firm went into politics. The two ran for the office of District Attorney in 1881, Kel. logg as a Republican and Eaton al Ia Democrat. because the salary O $500 a year was needed for thu firm. Kellogg won.
 On October 1, 1887, he moved tt St. Paul, forming Davis, Kellogg and Severance in> partnership witt Cushman K. Davis, then United States Senator, and Cordenio A. Sc verance. When Davis died in 1900 Kellogg became senior partner.
 Corporation Attorney They achieved a reputation a! corporation lawyers, yet Kellogg wa picked by President Theodore Roos evelt for some of the Administra tion's most famous trust busting The first case was against the West ern Paper Company, commonly call ed the Western paper trust Rel logg, as special counsel for the gov ernment, won decree of dissolution