Detroit Tribune

The newspaper acquired new management, including James E. Scripps, future founder of the Detroit News.

The Tribune was Michigan's oldest existing Negro newspaper and was put up for public auction in an attempt to clear up some of its accumulated debt.

The Afro American featured his obituary, which may have shocked his relatives on February 12, 1966: "The entire estate of Andrew Fruehauf, member of the wealthy trucking family, has been left in trust for the perpetuation of the Detroit Tribune, Michigan's oldest colored weekly newspaper.

Fruehauf, who died December 4, 1965, in a will dated October 12, 1960, requested that his estate, now estimated to be in excess of a half million dollars, be left to the newspaper as long as it reflects the aspirations of colored Americans in the community.

Fruehauf, who for more than a decade sponsored the newspaper, insisted that it carry on its pages material advocating the philosophy of the Christian Science movement of which he was a devoted believer."