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DAILY NEWS, 'SATURDAY, "JANUARY 26. 1974 Frank Costello's Tomb Bombed bf issing; ieiieve si PS 1 I 1 i Wit ilMI 11 i By EDWARD KI RKM AN Dominick (Mimi) Scialo, the Colombo family boss of organized crime in Coney Island and the suspected author cf a recent series of mob rubouts by ski-masked killers, is missing' from his usual haunts and it is believed that he has Icon slain, according to law enforcement intelligence 7 iif pourtes. X'. L'52 r. -tf-'Fs -A Scialo, 4', is alleged to have run lucrative loan sharking and gambling operations from an Cosmo, an ambitious Colombo family bookmaker, by two ski-masked gunmen in a Brighton Beach Democratic club in December.

Cosmo, 33. was expanding his gambling scope without mob permission. The cunmrn were he- Italian Amen- 1 2T. SS 41 can Line I N'ewc ptwto by Alan Aaronscn Tolice examine the charred entrance to mausoleum containing the remains of underworld kingpin Frank Costello fter homemade bomb exploded in the granite structure at St. Michael's Cemetery, Queens, last night.

Costello's remains' were unscathed, but the bronze doors of the mausoleum were blown off. Costello died last February at 82. I Boy's Fancy Took Eight Rights League lieved to be imported Sicilian rub-clubhousa on out specialists. Neptune A e. Wounded in Bath Beach and loth SU in the heart of vosmns immediate mob boss.

Coney. He also Larry Lampasi, was seriously directed large wounded bv a ski-masked gunman burglary and Bath fc stickup gangs, 1 from the on Dec- 14 four dars later, house, the) A ski-masked gunman mur-sources said. I dered Joseph (Crazy Joe) Gallo's The 6-foot. former bodyguard. Anthony Car- Dominic It calo J200-pound Scialo hps long been suspected as a hit rosin for the mob, but although he has been arrested several eccia, a Coney Island bar in November.

Scialo was made a full Mafia raptain after the retirement of time as a murder suspect, he has John (Johnny Bath Beach) a little over a year aeo. no homicide convictions in his Oddo 1 By BERNARD RABIN I A 15-year-old south Jamaica youth who "loves birds and animals" made some people at the ASPCA sheepish 1 when he admitted yesterday to U.S. I Fish Wildlife Service officials 1 his story about owning a young bald eagle that got away was a phony. Richard Coleman, agent in charge of the fed- eral serivce office at Kennedy Airport, said the youth, Mark Leacotk. of 145-42 Lakewood I a student at Bayside High School, had read about the injured bird that the ASPCA found in Malba on Jan.

15. He decided to claim it. Only 19 Bald Eagles in East 1 "We investigated from New York to Florida," Coleman said, "and cleared Hawks and Fal phee record. Blonde Is the Color Scialo played the mobster role to the hilt. He was often seen, yat'dily attired, with an ever-present blonde on his arm, swaggering along Neptune Ave.

Alphonse (Allie Boy) Persico, the dominant Colombo family crime captain, sponsored Seialo's elevation, over the objections of the old guard, who resented his swaggering manner. Scialo rose to in 1958 when he made the FBI's 10 "most wanted" list for the and claim it as his own. He thought that would be sufficient reason for them to give it to him but, of course, they could not do so." The injured bird, originally thought to be a brown royal eagle, actually is a bald eagle, considered under a 1940 federal law to be an endangered species. The last bird count in the East, Coleman said, recorded only 19 bald eagles in the area between Maine and Delaware. Because it is under three years old and does not have white feathers on its head that distinguish the bald eagle, it took the combined efforts of the Fish Wildlife service, the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan and Dr.

Joseph Bell, head ornithologist at the Bronx Zoo, to determine its identity. The bird temporarily is ensconced in the Bronx Zoo. Coleman said he expects the bird to be flying again in two or three weeks. At" that time he plans to take it to a wildlife refuge in Delaware and release it. An ASPCA spokesman, asked how the agency could have been taken in by the boy's story said: "We had no reason to doubt the child." The youth told Jamaica shelter officials the day after the bird was captured, that he had purchased it for $20 from the Florida mail order house.

He said that without the knowledge of his mother, he had kept it in his basement for three weeks, feeding it mice. He was suspected as a top alleged murders of two Brooklyn IriiM-rr ftir the Colombo vanv in youths, who had botched an arson job for him. its numerous flareups with the mob, a factor that would rnnke him a prime target for the (Jallo faction. But his actions Gives Up Year Later t-ialo surrendered a year I 1 after the killings, and despite a ft lso made him unpopular among jeathbed statement by one cf the conservative old guard in his cons, the Miami firm that allegedly sold the bird to young Leacock. After speaking to the boy in the presence of his mother and after getting three different stories, the boy finally admitted making up the whole thing.

"The boy said he loves birds and animals and particularly wanted to own an eagle. hen he read about the bird flying into the White-stone Bridge and fracturing its wing, he decided to go to the ASFCA shelter in Jamaica the victims, escaped conviction. Federal sources concede that Scialo may possibly have fled town to escape the vengeance of the Gallo mob or alienated Colombo hoods, but are inclined to believe "street that he cwn Colombo family. Either group, according to federal and kcal investigative sources, could le responsible for his disappearance. Scialo was believed to have been behind the murder of Miguel i has "been blown away.

lea or May he Big Apple Is for Biting me, solely to things he considers significant. Otherwise, he'll be glancing at the papers on his desk or signing routine letters as he talks. "He has fantastic antennae," one trusted aide explained. "He knows just what you're saying. He stops what he's doing instantly if his antennae go up." Beame also has installed hot lines to almost a dozen key advisers, picking up the phone and buzzing them without having to go through a secretary- "He's like a blotter with information," another staffer said.

"The best way to stay on the best side cityjLhall By SAM ROBERTS Like many a motorist. Mayor Beame's driver became the victim of bad directions a few weeks back and got lost in a Brooklyn intersection as he chauffeured the mayor to the graduation of Housing Authority ecps. Quick to fume at the delay and the damage to his punctual record, the mayor did what any New Yorker would do. Beame rolled down the window and asked the abhy in the adjoining hack for directions. Abe Beame has been mayor almost a month and the story says something about him.

He knows New York, but maybe not every intersection. Maybe not enough about sections of the It wer East Side that have changed dramatically since he grew up there. And maybe not enough Brownsville and the South Bronx and Harlem which also have changed. The story also says something about the taxi industry. The cabby didn't recognize the mayor srd he didn't know the right directions.

Beame finally remembered the way. Sfill Not a Fixture li's funny that after more than two dtca.lts in city government Beame sometimes isn't recognized. But after all. he has always been a man more comfortable in the back room than the front sttps and who savors conciliation over confrontation. When he argues with an opponent or with an aide, Beame often pats the adversary's arm shnost as if he seeks to ease the pain or soften the debate.

He likes to stand a lot, as If his nervous energy 5 ion constrained in a seat. His undivided' attention ir. his freshly painted. City Hall. office, is uevoied.

Richard Lewisohn's official car because his own was being repaired. But Beame balked when the driver suggested using the siren. And after a few minutes, the mayor turned to an aide in the back seat and asked: "What the hell is the finance administrator doing with a siren?" Beame still is living in his rented apartment in Belle Harbor, Queens, and keeps pressing his wife, Mary, to hurry up the renovation of Gracie Mansion so that they can move in. Even though he's on the car phone or sifting through papers, Mary said, the mayor doesn't like to waste the hour commuting. Abe Beame may wind up being an insulated and even antiquated mayor who spends more time mulling than making decisions, but he has a certain basic faith in New York.

Lindsay thought a lot about what it could be. Beame thinks a lot about what it used to be. Bean Soup and a Handshake Deputy Mayor James Cavanaugh, press secretary Sid Frigand and some other aides prevailed upon him to join them for a snack recently after leaving a late reception at the mansion. Beame didn't know the neighborhood, so he asked the cop at the gate. He was directed to the Mansion Restaurant on E.

86th, looked the place over, waved his staff in, had a hamburger and Yankee bean soup and shook hands with the chef. Maybe after a few months the mayor will have retreated inside the mansion's walls where except -for the commute to City Hall crime and garbage and poverty will be both out of sight and out of mind. Don't bet on it, based on his performance so far. And don't be surprised if you see him walking on the beach at Belle Harbour or munching a sandwich at a local lunchetutetteiri I'. ti.

of him is to save time. He's not rude or brusque when he wants quick answers he's saving time." Punctuality like primness, is almost a mania for the mayor. Unlike John Lindsay, who Tarely was iess than half an hour late for anything. Beame works by a two-faced clock on his desk one side for himself and the other as a subtle warning to any visitor who overstays his welcome. During his campaign when he was 10 minutes early for a stop, Beame even parked a block away and spent the time working in the he was furious when hewas 10 minutes late to that housing police graduation.

Beame is a quiet man and has little favor or flair for publicity or During his first full day in office, his driver, was weaving through traffic on the way to visit a wounded cop at Metropolitan Hospital. Beanie had bxirrowad'-iFinanoe Administrator.

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