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Show Kellogg, Peace Pact Coauthor, Ex-Secretary of State, Dies Famed Diplomat Succumbs to Pneumonia on Eve of 81st Birthday ST. PAUL, Minn, Dec. 22 (UP) Frank Billings Kellogg, world diplomat, former secretary of state and cosponsor of the Kellogg- Briand peace pact, died last night the eve of his eighty-first birth- ; day. He died st his boms from pneumonia, pneu-monia, which developed Sunday. The disease was complicated by cerebral thrombosis, bis physician said. Kellogg leaves his widow, the former Clsr Cook of St. Louis. She and his law partner, Guy Chase, and Dr. J. A. Lepak ware present when death came. He had no children. Lepak aald the' statesman fell into a complete coma Tuesday night and did not recover consciousness. Destb came at 7:14. J The pact which Kellogg com pie t- , ed with Aristide Briand of France ' was considered his greatest i (CewUnueo! on TK Wotui t Column Twe ( Kellogg, Coauthor of Antiwar Pact,1 Succumbs 1'f '", . ' .J ir . .... ' f (Cuutluutd ffam Omi achievement Tha document com-pmed com-pmed only 78 words, under whlcfc 59 nation- renounced war as a means of settling disputes. It gained p world renown the grand crosjSof the Legion of Honor from Franceyind tha Nobel peace prise for 1930. ut he had long been known for hisactivitiea as an attorney, at-torney, senator, ambassador to Urfiit Pril.i!ignd eretaryof state under President Calvin Coolidge. He ended his public career in 193ft, when ha reaigned as judge 7rom the worldTcourt arTha Hagw after a five-year term and retired to hia residence at St. Paul. During Dur-ing the last year he suffered severs! sev-ers! strokes and never regained his health completely. He waa stricken by the cerebral thrombosis six weeks ago. .Service Planned Burial will be in tha national cathedral in Washington, where lie tha bodies of President Woodrow Wilson and Admiral George Dewey. Tha body will be taken from St. Paul Saturday. Funeral services in Washington will ba arranged later. Funeral servicee in 8U Paul will ba held tomorrow in tha Church of St. John tha Evangelist. Kellogg rose to international prominence from tha obscurity of a Minnesota farm. He devoted hls later years to the promotion of amity among nations and lived to ae signatories of tha famous pact confronted with the moat serious threat to world peace since the great war. Despite hia infirmities during the past three years, he followed with keen interest tha conflicts along tha Mediterranean and In tha Orient But ha retained until tha last hia faith that tha pact would enable hostile nations to find a means to and strife. Final Utterance Made Hia final public utterance waa made shortly after tha United States branded Japan as tha aggressor ag-gressor nation In China. At that time ha charged Japan with violation of tha nine-power and Kellogg-Brland pacts. Ha redfirmed re-dfirmed his belief that peace would prevail and that tha nations at conflict con-flict with tha pacta Involved, had tha means to avert war. Kellogg waa tha son of home- FRANK BILLINGS KELLOGG IN RECENT INTIMATE PHOTOGRAPH He gained world renown as diplomat and coauthor of international peace accord staadar and had no formal education educa-tion beyond grade school, yet hia ability won him honorary degrees from six universities. He waa born at Pottadam, N. Y December 22, liM. When ha waa 9 hia parents, Asa F. and Abigail BilUnga Kellogg, moved to a farm in Olmatead county, Minnesota. Won Trust Suit After admittance to tha Minnesota Minne-sota bar in 1877 ha represented several sev-eral large corporations in the northwest Then, in 102, ha accepted ac-cepted appointment aa apecial counsel for tha government in proeaoutioQ of tha paper trust one of tha greatest conflicts of President Presi-dent Theodora Roosevelt's administration. admin-istration. Tha causa waa decided in aCSSB II I I IB i hia favor. ' He waa elected United States senator sen-ator from Minnesota In 1916. He served six years and was appointed ambassador to the court of St. James in 1923 by President Calvin Coolidge. When Coolidge was reelected in 1924 he recalled Kellogg and formed hia cabinet around the diplomat as secretary of state. Kellogg's tenure In that position was marked by stirring issues in Mexico, Nicaragua and China. He began the groundwork for his historical peace treaty 10 yeara ago thia month. He made overtures to France after Briand had auggeated a bilateral war renunciation treaty. His plan finally waa enlarged and i " i i 1 radoptel by world powers tha following fol-lowing year. I WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UP) i Secretary of State Cordell Hull to-Iday to-Iday eulogized Frank B. Kellogg, 'former secretary of state and coauthor co-author of the Kellogg-Brland anti-war anti-war pact, as a man gifted 'with I deep wisdom and unfaltering energy." en-ergy." Preaident Rooaevelt paid tha following fol-lowing tribute to Kellogg: "An outstanding and sincere figure fig-ure in our national life and in world affairs has gone in the passing of Frank B. Kellogg. An indefatigable indefatiga-ble worker in behalf of world peace, he never lost faith in the superiority of . the arbitrament of reason to physical force in tha government of man." |