' PAET 1- PAGE 6 HOOD FOUND SLAIN; POLICE SEEK WOMEN Victim Associated with Rackets Twelve women were sought by police for questioning yester-day in the s 1 a y i n g of a vice racketeer and gambler who' was the 14th gang-style murder victim in the Chicago area this year. Chicago Heights police said the names of the. women were scrawled on a piece of paper in the pocket of the slain hoodlum, Alex Sorrentino, 54, an ex-convict. His body, with bullet wounds in the back and head, was found yesterday in a field at 501 Par-nell av., Chicago Heights. Lieutenant of 3 Hoodlums Detectives speculated that the women were associated - with Sorrentino in southern Cook county vice rackets, where he operated as a lieutenant of three crime syndicate gangsters, Frank La Porte, Ted Bar-tusciewicz, and Frankie Franze, La Porte is the overall boss of syndicate vice and gambling in southern Cook county and Will county. Sorrentino also was a reputed procurer for a fourth Chicago Heights hoodlum, Joseph Bar- SWTMtiM V 5 Ljoe r i x5rr rd. X CHICAGO TJ heights - UNCOL-N ' W. HWY. "yimi- r rett Jr., it was learned. Barrett is the operator of a notorious syndicate bordello in the hamlet of Godley, in northern . Grundy county. Headquartered In Tavern For months before his murder, Sorrentino made his headquarters in Barrett's tavern, the Vagabond lounge, in Chicago Heights, police disclosed. Another note found in Sor-rentinn's pocket, police said, may have been written by one of the 12 women. The note read: "I'm home from six in the morning until noon and from six to eight in the evening. Please give me a ring." Police theorized that Sorrentino knew his killers and permitted them to enter his car late Thursday night The assassins apparently forced him to drive to the field, ordered him to get out of the car and kneel before them, and then killed him with two shots from a .45 caliber automatic pistol, detec tives said. Sorrentino was killed before he had a chance to use the loaded .38 caliber revolver which he carried in a pocket of his trousers, investigators disclosed. Police considered Sorrentino a small-timer in the syndicate rackets network in the Chicago Heights area. He was known to police as a flunky in the gambling joints and vice resorts run toy LaPorte, Bartusciewicz, and Fronze. The e'arly investigation of the murder disclosed Sorrentino as a heavy wagerer at race tracks, police said. Reportedly Had 2 Homes Sorrentino, according to police, had two homes one at 2635 Commercial av, South Chicago Heights, and another at 1007 Roosevelt St., Moline. His wife, Angeline, 50, lives at 1669 Buena Vista av., Chicago Heights. She told police that Sorrentino had not been living with her recently. Sorrentino served prison terms for burglary and bank robbery.