The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-10
Observations
Celebrities From
Washington Always
Turning up
ey Helen Esssry

W hen NO4 nave III ca gu VI aoN
iuston for o few years you have met
80 many kinds Of people you arc like
a sailo You have friend y
every port. Wherever you 80
thereafter you come upon somebo-
dy you Guow aud promptly pausy
for conversation or cocktail or
sonteel cup Of tea
It wasn't surprising therefore
that within the first two da. S Of MY
short stay in Palm Beach found
myself talking 10 half dozen old
Washington COMMUNICATION
Ambassador TO Russia and Mrs. 10
seph Z. Davies, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
p. Kennedy-he was United States
maritime chief in Washington be-
fore be went to London as our am
bassador-Mr and Mrs. Sumner
Welles, Senator and Mrs. Robert
Reynolds.
| had tea with the recent Under
Secretary OF State and Mrs. Welles
in their home on the Via Bellaria-
charming street that runs from
Lake Worth TO the ocean where
The island is uarrowest. Mr.. aud
Mrs. Welles bought the house last
winter from Mrs. Arthur Somers
Roche. Mrs. Welles furnished It
With some attractive pieces from
her Massachusetts Ave. home in
Washington, the one now used by
the Canadian WACS.
Mrs. Welles has been III since
she came 70 Palm Beach and this
was her first venture downstairs.
TWO other Washington friends we're
therein. and Mrs. Breckenridge
Bayne. We had tea and converse
ton on the cloister,like porch fac
ing a patio. lovely with deep ferns,
poinciana and Gala lilies blooming
against the brown trunks OF like
oak trees.
Welles and I discussed this
peruicious business OF writing
newspaper column He is doing
one a week. The President had
told him not TO tie himself down
any more than that. 1T would dri'e
you crazy thinking OF things to
say" MIR. Roosevelt had advised
Nelles is also writing a book-on
international affairs. | made him
confess that the book is to be pub
lished in April. but be wouldn't dis
cuss the subject. He did say that
he is working all day every day
and hadn't had a moment TO see the
town since he arrived. Old friends
stop by to call. however-the Brazil
liam Ambassador and Madame MAJ.
tins, now definitely reassigned TO
their Washington post; Jefferson
Caffery. United States ambassador
10 Brazil for seven years; Mrs. CAT
ferry is remaining IN Brazil during
her husbands visit TO the states.
Mr.. and Mrs. Welles will return TO
Oxon Hill. their Maryland estate,
about the middle OF March "Th.
is beautiful place" said Mrs.
Welles, but I couldn't miss the
crocus and daffodils and the rest OF
spring in Washington.
had luncheon with Mr.. and Mrs.
Kennedy and some OF their nine
children and some Of their nine
children friends at their home on
the North Ocean Boulevard We
ate in the garden on the land side
after a swim in the sea that rusbes
UP 10 the ocean side Of the house.
There have been rumors around
that Kennedy would be coming TO
Washington to take an important
lob. 1t is a pity. the Administra
ton, frequently stymied for Grade
A manpower, doesn't take adyant-
age OF the ability and experience
OF the man Who represented the
United States at the Court OF st
James
AND NOW COME TO NEWS OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Davies old gOs'
sip that ! am. There is lots OF
serious talk in Florida that Davies
is about 10 run for the United
States Senate from Florida. OF
course. There is not the prejudice
in this state against public office
nOlQeIb VINO were DOIu OdLoluF lIP
state lines.
Most Floridians we're born some
where else. The percentage OF ma
tive sons is small.
Mr.. and Mrs Davies are not liy-
ing this year in Har-a-Lage. their
palazzo. and II is 'palazzo' on the
South Oyean Boulevard Because
OF the threatened blackout they
took a smaller house-vell. not so
small-30 rooms-inland Now the
blackout has been lifted with the
passing Of the submarine danger
along the Florida coast
Davies has been recupcratinE
from a slight Illness but is up and
about again. He recently address
ed an audience of 700 at a Florida
chamber Of commerce meeting.
Davies is returning to Washington
within a few weeks Mrs. Davies
will go to their western ranch be-
fore coming to the capital