Evening star., 1958-05-11
Davies Will
TOReveaI Fate
0fTreuaron
BY WILLIAM MILLEN
star star Writer

tabled home OF Joseph 4.
Davies, 81, former Ambassador
20 Russia who died Friday, Is
expected 10 be disclosed when
his will Is filed In Federal Court
possibly this week.
This will also reveal what
will happen 10 his noted collec-
ton Of Russian art works ana
other valuables.
Funeral services for Mr..
Davies will be held at 2 pm.
tomorrow at Washington Ca
thedral. He will be buried later
In the Cathedral.
His daughter. Mrs. Millard
Z. Tydings. wife OF the former
Maryland Senator. said yester-
day that Mr.. Davies tried TO
give Tregaron TO the Govern
ment four times. but 1t did not
accept" She also said the Gov
eminent would not accept 1t as
n home for the Vice President.
Two Projects Under Way
She said in his last days, Mr..
Davies was working on two ma
Tor projects. He was getting
together his memoirs for book
TO be published by Simon g.
Schuster. she explained. She
said that project will go for
ward.
The other was the Joseph |
Davies Scholarship Foundation
for young boys at his home
town, Watertown. Wis. Under
this. poor boys who might
otherwise be denied a college
education. are able to attend
the University Of Wisconsin,
Mrs. Tydings said. He was
born in Watertown, November
2S. 1876. worked his way
through the University Of Wis
consin, graduating with Phi
Beta Kappa honors.
In 1855, Mr.. Davies an
nounced his intention to will
Tregaron. named after the
birthplace of his ancestors in
Wales, to the United States
Government as graduate
school for international affairs
or as a permanent home for
the Vice President. Some OBJ
servers said this might require
an act of Congress or, at least.
affirmative action by the Gov
ernment. Tregaron is at 3O2S
Klingle road NV.
School Proposal
The proposal for a House
of Studies" a center Of learn
ing in Washington, was made
in 1916 by an educational COM
mission. Mr.. Davies proposal
was keyed to this idea. He
planned to have the Library OF
Congress and a group OF uni
yersities cooperate in the prof.
ect.
Mr.. Davies in an interview
with The Star in 1855, foresaW
the possibility the Government
would be unable to accept his
gift. In that case, he antici-
pated Tregaron would be sold
and the proceeds added to the
already established Joseph
Davies Scholarship Foundation.
His Russian collection might go
to various museums. possibly
the National Gallery of Art.
Some observers said the Gov
ernment previously rejected
Tregaron as the Vice Presi-
dents permanent official resi-
dence because that would mean
the Vice President would be
living in a more luxuriant style
that the President himself.
They also said they under
stood that Mr.. Davies at that
time did not offer to endow
Tregaron with a self sustaining
fund and that he might have
required that it never be sold.
COnservatOr Named
In December, Mr.. Davies
asked Federal Court here to
name the National Savings &
Trust Co. as conservator of his
property. This was done. At
that time, Mr.. Davies told the
court because of his present
physical incapacity and age,
he was unable to take care OF
the property himself He had
been i'll since last August. He
died of bronchial pneumonia,
following a cerebral hemor-
rhage or stroke.
David Close, attorney for Mrs.
Marjorie Merriweather Post,
breakfast cereal heiresS and
former wife of Mr.. Davies, said
There was a complete and
final property settlement in
1855, in which each renounced
interest in the others estate.
1t is expected that in the dis
position of Mr.. Davies proper
ty, his son-in-law. E. Fontaine
Broun, Washington lawyer, will
play a very prominent part. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Broun is
one of the executors of the es-
tate.