Terrorized Americans"

"Terrorized Americans"

As vexed as a hornet, one Signer Antonio Pizzuco returned from Italy to the Bronx, buzzed all week indignantly to reporters who bought and ate the sherbets he freezes for a living at No. 769 Courtlandt Ave.

The SherbetMaker's grievance: Antonio Pizzuco returned to Italy on a vacation last November, showed the authorities at Naples papers proving that he is a U. S. citizen. But at Argenta (near his native village) he was seized and impressed into the Italian Army.

Mrs. Josephine Pizzuco's grievance: She stated that she appealed to the U. S. consul at Palermo (Howard K. Travers of Manhattan), who, she says, said: "I can't do anything about it."

Eventually Mrs. Pizzuco, "after spending several hundred dollars," got an Italian civil court moving toward the release of her husband, but the pace was almost imperceptible until Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, stirred up by Bronx friends, protested potently. Without warning or explanation, Private Pizzuco was told by his Italian sergeant at 11 o'clock one night to get out of barracks and scuttle to his wife.

Standing dramatically before a battered trunk, from which he pulled an Italian uniform "uncomfortably too large" for him, Signer Antonio Pizzuco said last week:

"There is hardly a regiment in Italy in which other Americans are not being held. Some of them are terrorized. They have relatives there who appeal to them not to say anything lest dire punishment be visited upon them."

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