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Show THOUSANDS GRIEVE FOR SLAIN GANGSTER-SOLDIER j NEW YORK. Deo 3 1. Thousands ' fl Of men and women in various walks! of life paid homage to "Monk" K i I man. murdered gangster-soldier, at I his funeral In Brooklyn Thursdav Remindful that hLs record "as a B I le-ader In the easts side's Bang con-H "i- ' bad i'.i p.irt becll ' e;i.nsc, bv II ; his heroic behavior in the world war, m I the silent throngs gathered about an R undertaker's chapel where his bod p lay and listened to rcii.ds of the be ,1 g in his life. Eastman's citizenship, for- l felted by his conviction of crime years H ! ago. was restored bj ; . , smith W ' upon his return from France. h The funeral rites wore simple, HtslE soldier-comrades of the 27th division 'B were Lherc to honor him as one "re-l generated" In the wm- They i- K Oil the body to the cemetery to thi K sound of muffled drums, where Is honors were paid by a firing qi id R at the grave and a bugler's notes of P |