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6 MAIL TRIIUNE, M.if.rtJ, Of. A Thursday, June IS, 1959 Host of Gangster Convention Dies In N.Y. Hospital Johnson City, N. Y. - (LTD - Joseph Barbara, the "sick friend" 60 gangster dropped in to see at his Apalachin, N. Y., home Nov. 14, 1957, died of a heart ailment Wednesday night without re vealing the secret purpose of that underworld convention. Barbara's illness had pre vented his questioning by state and federal investigators who have indicted and jailed a number of the nation's big gest "name" criminals for allegedly lying or refusing to talk about his hilltop bar becue party. - Barbara, 53, had been in Wilson Memorial hospital in critical condition since a heart attack on May 29. Wife at Bedside At his bedside were his wife, the former Josephine Vivona of Endicott, N. Y., his daughter, Angeline, and his vtwo sons, Peter, a University of Buffalo student, and Jo seph Jr., who had been asso ciated with his father in a soft drink bottling and beer distributing business and had attended the Apalachin meet- The sons said early today that their mother had been placed under sedation and that funeral plans would not be made until she is able to decide on them. License Suspended .The Sicilian-born Barbara gave up both his business and his home after state police rounded up his guests, alleged by authorities to be the lead ing figures of a who s who in the Mafia." The business went with the suspension of his state license as a result of the party. The home was sold last month for $130,000 to a developer who announced plans to convert it into a tour ist attraction. Apalachin neighbors are i, protecting this plan as an of fensive "shrine to crime." Russian Ballet Declared Unfair Los Angeles - (DPD - The So viet Union's famed Bolshoi Ballet, which played to capac ity audiences in Los Angeles last month, has been accused of unfair labor practices by the Musicians Guild of America. The charges were filed Wednesday against nine de fendants, one of them the Russian group. The guild said the Bolshoi discrimi nated against the employment of 10 local musicians in a video tape production of the ballet. Local sources said the charges might be connected with a jurisdictional struggle between the guild and its bit ter rival, the American Fed eration of Musicians. The other defendants in- eluded two companies handl ing the taped performances of the ballet.. Gloria Swanson Protests Tax Claim Washington - (LTD - Actress Gloria Swanson has filed a protest against government claims that she owes $39, 457.69 in back income taxes and $5,829.91 in penalties. Records showed today that a petition filed by her law yers argued that the Internal Revenue Service should have allowed a variety of deduc tions claimed by Miss Swan son as business expenses for 1949 through 1953. The petition noted the actress movie comeback in 1949 in the film "Sunset Bou levard," and her ventures in plays, movies, benefit shows, TV programs, dress fittings, business conferences, inter views and dress designing. These activities, it said, re quired "the conversion of practically all aspects of her life into a business venture. Beulah Fizzles As Hurricane Brownsville, Tex. (DPD Tropical storm Beulah fizzled as a hurricane but still man aged to rumble angrily across the Mexican coast about 200 miles south of Brownsville Wednesday night. The doughnut-shaped cen ter of the storm at first ap peared to threaten much of the South Texas Gulf coast. 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