Charles T. McCutcheon, bacteriologist of the milk division of the Detroit Board of Health, was discharged from his position today for failing to report to his superiors that he had been approached by the Black Legion to breed typhoid germs to infect milk sold to Jews.
Disclosure of the plot, which never was put into execution, was made last Friday by Duncan McCrea, Wayne County prosecutor, who is investigating the anti-Jewish, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic terrorist organization. The bacteriologist said he had never consented to the plot.
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