GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 28 July 1925, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A FAMILY OF GIANTS. OTTAWA, July 26. An official police report contains the story of a remarkable community in Northern British Columbia. Sixty years ago when David Scott, a halfbreed, was twelve, his parents ivus him to the Western prairies, where he grew into a giant of 6ft. 4in. At 22, he married a handsome Indian girl and laid carefuT~p!ans for the practice of eugenics in the wilderness, which he has since followed consistent ly. Four daughters born to „im grew into handsome six-footers. »>a vid, leading his family amongst the northern trading ports, insisted on choosing as husbands for his daughters only men perfect physically Mid with the highest, ideals. All the daugh tors married twenty years ago, and the band lias now grown to fifty-four, all living contentedly together. Tne party, all of huge stature, recently arrived at Fort Norman with furs worth _£loo,ooo. They spend tneir lives in tents and maintain the fiigtiest standard of cleanliness and morality.

RUSSIAN TRADE EXPANSION.

RIGA, July 26. A special Soviet mission has gons to London with’ authority to place orders for textile machinery, of a value of a million sterling, chiefly in Britain and partly in Germany. LONDON, July 26.

E. F. Wise, announces that the Russo-British grain company is snipping five millions sterling worth of Russian wheat in the next few months. The British Co-Operative Wholesale Society lias arranged an immediate credit of half a, million for the purpose. Large orders for machinery tools and textiles on credit hfive-Ixieu placed in Britain, Germany Poland Mid Clzecho-Slovakia. Britain .would receive more, if she-were willing to oiler as good credit as the. Continent. The goods would be paid Tor out of the piuceeds of the wl««‘t.