Atlanta Daily World

Omegas Repudiate Penn's
Disavowal Of Reynolds

NEW YORK
(NNPA) Epsilon
Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity has repudiated the fraternity's national basileus, Dr. Harry T. Penn of Roanoke, Virginia, for his disavowal of Grant Reynolds as a spokesman for the fraternity in presenting to the Senate Armed Services Committee the civil disobedience program Mr. Reynolds and A. Philip Randolph are advocating, it was learned.

The controversy may be carried to the floor of the next national convention of the fraternity, it was said.

After Epsilon chapter voted to repudiate Dr. Penn, it was learned, a fight developed over whether Senator Chan Gurney, of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, should be notified of the committee's action. A motion to do so was overwhelmingly passed, it was learned, and the chapter secretary, Ludlow Werner, publisher of the New York Age was instructed to write Dr. Penn and send a copy to Senator Gurney.

Senator Gurney.
OBJECTION MADE

Monroe Dowling, head of Epsilon Chapter, was absent at the meeting at which Mr. Werner was present. Mr. Werner reportedly stated he would not send the letter over his signature, and Mr. Dowling was opposed to sending Senator Gurney a copy of it.

Upon reconsideration it was decided to send the letter of repudiation to Dr. Penn but not to send a copy of it to Senator Gurney. Some members of the Chapter, however, were not satisfied to drop the issue but plan to take it to the national convention in Columbus, Ohio, in December.

Meanwhile, it was reported that other chapters are expressing disagreement with Dr. Penn over the issue. A St. Louis chapter was reported to have endorsed the civil disobedience program, and an Omega man at Wiley College has asked permission to organize an eastern Texas branch of the Committee Against Jim Crow in the Armed Services.

The fight has other implications. Mr. Reynolds is an avowed candidate for Congress from Harlem.

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...date for the seat in Congress held by Representative Adam C. Powell Democrat. The fight for the Republican nomination apparently has aligned Mr. Reynolds against Mr. Werner, who also is reported to be seeking the Republican nomination.