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Show Selective Service FALCONS TO ATTACK PARACHUTISTS, PARA-CHUTISTS, CARRIER PIGEONS Great clouds of lightning-swift falcons, fierce birds of prey that Clure who is in charge of the falcon training program. TREATMENT OF DISEASE A directory gives the location of clinics in each State, including Utah, and registrants may obtain information concerning them from their local boards, the Acting State Director said. Pointing out that all matters pertaining to the physical condition con-dition of registrants are confidential confiden-tial under Selective Service Regulations, Reg-ulations, the Acting State Dires-tor Dires-tor emphasized that no registrant need hesitate to consult his local i board concerning the location of a clinic near his home. He said "All requests for information in-formation about clinics must be held confidential, so no registrant having a veneral disease' should hesitate to ask where to go for treatment." are to be armed with specially designed knives harnessed to their bodies, may soon be tearing enemy en-emy parachute troops to shreds if experiments now under progress pro-gress by the army signal corps at Port Mommouth, N. J. prove successful. Two to three hundred of these ferocious birds are now to be trained by army specialists to fly against enemy parachutists with the object of ripping holes through the silk and causing them to collapse in mid-air. The traditionally cruel "drumbeat'' "drum-beat'' assault of the falcon's talons, tal-ons, reinforced by steel blades attached to the bodies of the birds would slash the parachutes and make rags of the parachute, according ac-cording to officers in charge of the program. Falcoms can dive at three hundred miles an hour. A second objective of these experiments ex-periments is to attack carrier pigeon in the mid-air whether forces. We can tell by seeing a pidgen in the mid-air whether it is one of ours, said Lt. Mac- |