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...middle of the Atlantic when war broke out was the pride of the Polish merchant fleet, the 16,000-ton Batory, Captain Eustazy Borkowski. Captain Borkowski doused his lights, watched for submarines, brought his liner safely into New York harbor with 352 U. S. citizens aboard...
While Poland was being erased from Europe's map, the Batory floated at anchor in the Hudson River off Yonkers. It was a restless berth for towering Captain Borkowski, frequently decorated hero of the last war, for 38 years a seaman...
What he was to do with the Batory, one of the few tenable Polish territories left in the world, was a question which his fleeing Government had no time to answer. Borkowski waited-until finally orders came from the New York Consulate. He was to relinquish his command to Chief Officer Franciszek Szudzinski and go by train to Halifax. The liner was to sail immediately for the same city under her new captain...
...Wisconsin, where he will become a Franciscan monk, went painfully popular Father Simon Borkowski. Since last September Father Simon has been "imprisoned" in his Vulcan, Mich. Roman Catholic rectory (TIME, Sept. 5) by picketing parishioners who objected to his bishop's transferring him to another diocese...
...rectory of St. Barbara's Roman Catholic Church in Vulcan, Mich, last week. Twenty pickets lounged about the rectory lawn. They had been lounging there for six weeks, in defiance of their Bishop Joseph Casimir Plagens, who had ordered their priest of the past 13 years, Father Simon Borkowski, transferred to a seminary in Wisconsin (TIME, Sept. 5). Professing to be unable to get past the restraining pickets, Father Simon remained in his rectory. Then, one day last week, a party of 60 Catholics, some local and some from nearby towns, drove up to St. Barbara...