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db Only Family Members at Brief Rites Dockers Mourn) At Funeral Home; Bodyguard Quizzed By AL TURE, Btaff Writer. | With the ghosts of men Ihe had ordered violently dispatched to eternity out- numbering mourners at bis funeral, Albert Anastasia today was buried quietly land swiftly in Brooklyn's; IGreen-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- nation—and the rites of the Catholic church had been de- nied him. 20-Minute Ceremony. ‘The entire ceremony took 20 minutes and the six.car cortege which had entered ithe cemerery at 25th St. and ‘ben |Ave. where about 100 curpus had gathered, sped out byjam othe exit. The funeral was in sharp contrast to other gangland burials. No Jong lines of cars, no profusion of flowers. Mourn fers eccupied four cars, trooped jguiclly to graveside by sight. repéated prayers led by/ a funeral director and just as silettly . returned -to ., their autos. + - When another Anastasia brother, Josepb, a dock hiring poss, died last year thére was ja mile-long cortege, $15,000 in floral tributes and & burial casket worth $6000. | While a cold wind ‘toppled floral ,pieces by the grave, |Anastijsia’s plain $900 casket Incloied in a wooden bot wat lowepd into the earth. | The mourners each tossed a’ pinh _ rose after it. A high police official said it ‘was one of the “quietest an¢ quickest” gangster funeral: ‘the ever had seen. Only four of the six cars Y carried mourners. - One held the body, the other carrie¢ } about a dozen floral offerings. Chauffers for the autos acteo pallbearers. “By contrast, -there were jnine vehicles transporting de ‘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” down last Friday, didn't like the press very muc, by his brother's admission, and they were}barred from his terivecs Even’ their view at the ceme tery, Jrom outside 2 felace. wa: cut off by forming a few large floral pieces as a shield, at 13th Ave. and 79th St, ‘she «had 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 ‘Teen responsible for the death brothers, Anthony (Tough ‘Tony) and Gerardo. Another brother, the Rev. Salvatore was not “fat 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 parior opened at AS am. avd received a steady iJspects to Tony, Brooklyn dock ilboss. William Bradley, presi- ident of the International Long- shoremen's Assn. (Ind.) and his general organizer, Thomas (Teddy) Gleason, were first to arrive. ‘They left shortly there- er. 400 af Funeral Home. About 400 persons milled ‘Joutside the funeral home, a ndsome white cement bpild- irfg set on a terrace, an: ldqzen police kept the spec- Jeers in check. Angels? on plaques under the roof edves ‘Pooked down on the scene.