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rs ee Medan rr te alae Ke | ithe oak OOS 34 The Anastasia rubout fol-! lowed the same pattern as tht: galgland executions of Wilic| Moretti and Frank Scalise ant! ¢ bungled attempt on the life, of Frank Costello. All of thesel top gangsters were marked. for death because rivals feared| they were leaking underworld. “This time we're telling Fran kie—aihd I don’t mean lo—nok to interfere. And we're not fooling.” __ “Whom do you mean by, Frankie?” ~~ . “Frankie C, but it’s not Com tello. That's alb7ei" And the mysterfous caller hung up. The phorie call came while Anastasia’s body was still warm on the barbershop floor. The same caller — or someone who sounded just like him—contacted Mr. Cook only two hours after Costello was shot. At that “time, he warned: “If Albert or Freddie © steps in, they’ll get it, too.” Meanwhile, other detectife squads scoured the city for.a nurrber of top+chelon hoai- lum; who have been conspicu- ously absent from their usual hauAts since Anastasia was chopped down. nae ees questioning is Anthony {Tony Bender) Strollo, mob biss of Greenwich Village. Strole has not peen seen for a week or moe. stig “Police believe the two gum men rho gave Anastasia a le jons have been sent to every law enforcement agency in the nation. ‘A Little Headway.’ Chief Inspector Thomas Niel- this com.nent, however. Anastasia’s chauffeur - body: , Anthony Coppola, 49, is held in $50,000 bail on a tech: nical charge of vagrancy. Among other things, police trying to find out why he n't with his boss al; the tine of the murder. Coppola has told conflicting stories, con- cirning his activities last Fri- aby, police say. . wow ree