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Show SECRETLY LANDS HALIBUT CARGO Seattle. Wash . Jan 10 The fish- j Ing steamer. Chicago, named by eight j Ice-breaking fishermen brought secretly to the Pacific Coast from j Boston, Gloucester and Portland. Me, I I arrived from Southeastern Alaska to-I j da with 12,000 pounds of halibut ' I which sold at 13 cents a pound, sev-I sev-I en oentS above normal and the high-i i est price paid in years. I For several months the Seattle hal-l j ibnt fleet has been tied up by a' fishermen's strike and the only halibut hali-but received here came from the j tniall fishing boats operating out of Alaska ports which have been storm bound nearly two weeks. Unknown to the strikers, the Chicago manned and slipped quietly out of the harbor, on her flrnl trip Decemher 19. The striking fishermen ask an increase in-crease of a cent a pound in their share of the catch. |