SEEKING JUNGLE FOODS
(Rec. 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 1. A United States intelligence officer has been assigned the job of roaming the New Guinea jungle in search of plants which can be used as emergency foods. The officer. Captain ( Chester Grigsby, of Baltimore, tests the plants by eating them. He has already discovered six new varieties of edible fruit growing in the jungle. He has yet to test at least 24 other jungle fruit-bearing plants, most of which he believes contain some form of nourishment. His' method of testing is to bring back a parcel of untried plants from each expedition and chew them while driving his jeep. If he suffers no ill1 effects the plant is listed as being good for eating.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5
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