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type ar tye % fT NOE ET IRE ET, ME ghee, aes UF eS a ben A ’ Dockers Mourn) At Funeral Home; _ Bodyguard Quizzed By AL TURK, Btaff Writer. | With the ghosts of men he had ordered violently dispatched to eternity out- numbering mourners at his funeral, Albert Anastasia today was buried quietly and swiftly in Braoklyn’s; Green-Wood Cemetery. - Only 14 members of the family of the former enforcer of Murder Inc., were at the graveside on a slight rise near 32nd St. and 5th Ave. as his body was committeed to non- consecrated ground. He had | died as he lived—by assassi- i nation—and the rites of the: Catholic church had been de- : nied him... . ‘ 20-Minute Ceremony. The entire ceremony took 29 minutes and the sixcar cortege which had entered the cemelery at 25th St and Sth Ave. where about 100 cur_pus had gathered, sped out byjan- othey exit, The funeral was in sharp contrast to other gangland burials. | No jong lnes of cars, no profusion of flowers. Mourn ers accupied four cars, trooped quielly to graveside by sigtal, repénted prayers led by; & fungral director and just yas silently returned -to . their autos, ed : When another Anastasia brother, Josepb, a dock hiring boss, died last year there was a mile-long cortege, $15,000 in floral tributes and a casket worth $6000. | While a cold wind ‘toppled floral ,pieces by the grave, Anasti|sia's plain $900 casket incloied in a wooden bot wat lowejed into the earth.| The mourners each tossed a° pink _roseaiter it~ ; i _ A high police official said it was one of the “quietest anc quickest” gangster funerals ‘he ever had seen. Only four of the six cars 4 earried mourners. - One held the body, the other carriec ; about a dozen floral offerings. --Chauffers for the autos acteo ; bearers. “<By contrast, there were gine vehicles transporting de t tectives, Newspaper reporters * and photographers and news - reel men. These were stoppec at the cemetery gate by police. Press Barred, Albert, 55, who was sho Gown last Friday, didn’t like the press very muc, by his brother's admission, and thes were;barred from his terivecs. Even: their view at ceme tery, Jrom outside a feace. wat - cut off by forming a few large floral pieces as a shield, near collapse .at the. burial g ceremany and was supported ‘by her son, Albert Hr. . 22. ‘Earlier in the Tor- : & Sons Fu Home at 13th Ave. and 79th St, she ad swooned after breaking “into sobs, "7 . The cortage left the funeral home at 9:50 a.m: after brief services there for the under- world kingpin sald to” have ;] been responsible for the death ‘lof at least 63 men. In the pro- cession also were Albert's brothers, Anthony (Tough Tony) and Gerardo. - Another brother, the Rev. Salvatore Anastasia, was not ‘{at the funeral. But spectators at the cemetery said they rec .Jognized him as the priest who had visited the grave and ap- parently prayed earller‘in the morning. " The funeral parlor opened at 8 am. avd received a steady Jstream’ of longshoremen in working attire who filed past the casket and paid their re- i[spects to Tony, Brooklyn dock sjboss. William Bradley, presi- dent of the International Long- shoremen’s Assn. (Ind.)} and his general organizer, Thomas {Teddy} Gleason, were first to arrive. They left shortly there- after. -_ : 400 at Funeral Home. About 400 persons milled ‘loutside the funeral home, a handsome white cement bpild- ding set on a terrace, an2 a dzen police kept the spec- iors in -check. Angels? on 4plaques under the roof édves ‘looked down on the scene.