Daily News from New York, New York • 134

DAILY NEWS. MONDAY, JANUARY 1934 He's the Mayor Today sareburhed; The NEWS in TABLOID -AND INDEX; i pa nr By WARREN HALL. A GAY holiday crowd composed mainly of women and children w2s transformed into a screeching, clawing mass of humanity early last evening when fire broke out in the Plaza Theatre, in Mount Eighteen were burned, five seriously, as the maddened audience of 800 scrambled wildly for safely in the midst of a movie showhouse which had been changed suddenly into a blazing inferno. Fiorello LaGuardia signs the register just after Justice McCook (right) swore him in. Mrs.

LaGuardia is with him. Road, Brooklyn, burned hands and face. Richard Draee, 6, 117 North High second degree burns. Carolina Arrichielli, 18, of 4527 Monticello Bronx, burned hands. Christina Computzi, 21, of 300 Gramatan burned face and hands.

The injured included a heroic patrolman who carried more than a dozen children through the jammed exits, and a youthful spectator who risked his life to guide others through the fear-crazed crowd. The neighborhood movie house vTaf filled almost to capacity at 7 P. M. -when a tongue tf flame crept up from the foot of the movie creep DAILY ALMANAC JldXDAT, JANt. 1.

(Eastern Standard Time) LaGuardia Sworn In As City Greets 1 934 By DICK LEE. THE bells of a New Year chimed in New York's New Deal Mayor last night. At exactly 12:06 A. when the city's roaring celebration was at its height, Fiorello H. LaGuardia raised his right hand in the home of Samuel Sea-bury, said "I do," and succeeded John P.

O'Brien as Mayor. Draperies Tate Fire. Unnoticed at first, it expanded wit ft lightning speed until the cur-tains and draperies were aflame. The shrill screan. of a woman in Our theory of municipal gov- ernment is an experiment, said LaGuardia.

But we are going to NEW YORK AND VICINITY Eighteen burned as crowd flees blazing Mount Vernon theatre. Page 2. LaGuardia sworn in as Mayor. Page 2. Two detectives arrested for slaying restaurant owner during drunken brawl.

Page 2. Babs' cousin, Jimmy Donahue, to see the world with the- Mdivanis. Page 3. Five ABC "inspectors and file derk trapped in graft on liquor licenses. Page 3.

Broker, 68, pal of pretty girls, found slain in Riverside Drive home. Page 3. New Year arrives, welcomed by record crowd. Page 3. Three fires" mark end of year and of cold spell 397 made homeless.

Page 8. Once-gilded job seeker a gas suicide after party, unable to face poverty. Page 8. Gen. O'Ryan declares war on speakeasies as he prepares to take office today.

Page 9. Engineer and would-be rescuer, trapped in pit at Kearney, N. die of carbon monoxide gas. Page 14. Robert L.

Moran named Bronx Commissioner of Public Works by Lyons. Page 14. Commissioner Levine estimates news stand graft at nearly $1,000,000. Page 15. Sheriff certain girl alone slew 8-year-old pal.

Page 30. Big bad process server finds Edna Dunham, all because of Max Baer's pursuit of her. Page 39. Nicholas Murray Butler calls world bankrupt, wants world bank to hold all gold. UNITED STATES.

Shawnee, Okla. "Tri-State Terror" Underhill, near death, confesses bank holdups. Page 15. Washington, D. C.

NRA puts its case before nation. Page 15. San Francisco. Civil Lib-, erties Union to ask indictment of Gov. Rolph as lynch murderer.

Page 30. Chicago. Two cops shot answering holdup alarm from amusement resort. Page 37. Denver.

Defense lawyers move to delay first lethal gas execution in State with appeal. Page 39. FOREIGN. Peiping, China U. S.

protests bombings endangering foreign lives. Page 10. London. King names five barons as New Year's gesture. Page 30.

Bucharest. Carol plans to strengthen control. the front of the house sounded arj signal at threw the audience into a panic. Spectators scrambled for the aisles, climbing over feats and I pnshinr their way past their weaker neighbors. The r.rarest the exit doirs threw them open.

The sudden t'raft drew the leaping flames down imto the audience. i The struggling occupants of the; side McCook stood Seabury, once a judge himself, but in the last few years even more powerful as a private citizen battling entrenched corruption. No Bible was nsed in the swearing-in ceremony. The Mayor wore a blue business suit, with a light blue necktie and the insignia of the "Quiet Birdmen," an airman's organization, as is his custom. Kisses Wife After Oath.

After the oath had been administered, the Mayor was congratulated by Justice McCook, Seabury, and the new controller, W. Arthur Cunningham. The new Mayor then kissed his wife, who had remained ir. the background while the oath was being administered. The oath, as read by Justice McCook, follows: "You, Fiorello H.

LaGuardia, do solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United LOCAL Rain and slightly warmer today. Much colder tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy and cokler. NEW YORK STATE Rain and sltehtly warmer today. Much cokler tonight.

Tomorrow partly cloudy and colder. Sunrise. 1.21 A. JAow'ktm sunset, BAKOMtTER P.M.: mrxin rises. yofc 5:21 P.

gets, iSssL Xn. A. 11.: morn- If ZtZ- ri lug star, Jupiter; tVzW 1 lcrn evenine star, HQ if tS2ll Mars; lust ouar- i.s&. a oil ter, Sih: new ts S'1f moon, liih: first Sftjg? JV quarter. T-d; full i.

moon, 20m. as TEMPERATURES IN NEW YORK. MAXIMUM, P. 40 MINIMUM, A. 19 5 1 p.

in Sal p. m. ..40 a. m. 2 ft.

10 p. a. 3 p. Inofficial a. Jl' 4 p.

p. a. 5 p. 19 a. p.

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3 a. i 4 a. For hours ended at 5. P. Dec 31: Mean temperature, 2fi; normal, 32; excess since Jan.

1, deRTt-es; deficiency prnee Iec. i. 65 decrees. Precipitation, Incb: excess since Jan. 1.

inches; excess since lee 1. .29 incb. I A. M. 8 P.

M. Baromner 30.2S 3.12 Humidity 71 Wind direction SW Wind velocity 1 1 try to demonstrate that a non-partisan, non-political, honest, clean government is possible in New York; and if we succeed here, surely other cities will follow." "Sow we have a MAYOR," remarked Seabury, his inflection imparting to his words the meaning that O'Brien fcad been a mere figure-head. The new Executive purposely avoided the hurly-burly of a New Year's celebration in taking his oath, and kept secret from all save a few close friends and several of the men who will share his rule of the city, the time and the place 154 K. 63rd St. No Time to Celebrate "LaGuardia no heart to celebrate," a close friend said, "with 100,000 persons out of work and families suffering in New York." The oath was administered by his close friend, Justice Philip J.

McCook of Supreme Court. Be rear seats escaped unscathed, but thte toward the front of the theatre felt the hot blast swirl about them. A their necks, faces and hands were seared by the rushint fames, they poshed the harder to escape, and their agonized screams added to the bedlam. Patrolman John Bradley, on duty just outride the theatre- battled his way into the milling and found a dvztn children abandoned fcy their parents in the frantic scramble. Two at a tune, he earried them the nearest exit, pushing back each time for more.

Although most of the spectators concerned themselves only with their own safety. James Albas, 23. of 313 South. Third Ave, followed Patrolman Bradley's example and turned back to carry children and assist old women from the blazing interior. Both he and the patrolman were burned about the hands and face.

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A CURTAIN of official secrecy rolled back yesterday to reveal two veteran detectives behind bars in the Fifth Street Police Station prisoners charged with murder. Fnllivrtrtcr a mio-lif if ivolrW the Bradley so severely that he was kept overnight at Mount Vernon Hospital for treatment. Albas was and sent home. The theatre was cleared in less than four minutes, just before the arrival of firemen who had been summoned by three alarms. 1 1 1 i.

I OI 14-703 33d Ave- Flushing, twain ooin oi mem wiin iiiineito THIS DAY IN HISTORY unblemished records aid to Theatre Damage Light. '5' 3fr. Betsy Kos mak ol 6rl Imwmi tlaf, born at Philadelphia. T'mna proclaimed a repuMie at Saokinc wita Sun Yat-ea as proiiional preitient- fliriatfania. capital of Norway, resumes oia Dame of Oslo.

Got. Alfred K. Smith inaurnrated for h( rt term aa GoTermr New Tork Stale at Albany. have entered the Globe-Circle Bar and Restaurant at 512 E- 6th St, and to -have shot the 48-year-old proprietor, Peter Martinick, death when he refused to serve them a drink. The crime 1933 DECEMBER 1933 mt jwtwMT jmint wrw? Queens, both attached for over a decade to the Fifth Street Station and possessing excellent records.

Carey, declared by Assistant District Attorney Saul Price to be suspected of having fired the fatal shot, refused to make any statement until represented by counsel. Nowicki, his head cut by an iron bar swung by a patron of the restaurant after the owner was killed, asserted his "mind was blank" as to everything that happened after 7 P. M. Saturday night, when he and his partner, Corey, had taken a few drinks in anticipation of New Year's Eve. Five witnesses, however, positively identified Nowicki as one of the two drunks who staggered up to the bar and demanded a drink of hard liquor.

They were not certain that Corey was the other man who fired the fatal shot. But the service revolvers of both detectives were confiscated and (Continued on page 6, col. 5) SPORTS Pasadena. Stanford 31 The late Peter Martinick vored over Columbia. Most the damage to the theatre was confined to the stair and the front tiers of seats.

After a brief investigation, firemen decided a short circuit in the sound apparatus was responsible for the blaze. MI seriously injured were -Mr. and Sirs. Robert X. Tapley of 350 Fraaklia Ave.

and their daughters, Norma. 6. and Helen. 5. They were kept at Mount Vernon Hospital.

Anion? those treated at the hospital and sent home were: Stanley Klein, 23, manager of the theatre, overcome by smoke. Eos Celetina. 12. cf -D North 5th St-, burned arms. Jerry Casagrande, 49, of 131 W.

Sidney burned ears. Louis Kinkelbein. b'9, of 3:) 12th burned esrs. Mrs. Jennie Lax.

6'-, 646 Argiie 1934 JANUARY 1934 40. San Francisco. East meets West in annual grid game. Page 40. Americans defeat Rangers, was com mu lea shortly after midnight, but the police made no mention of the detectives part in the crime until hours later after brother officers had found both asleep in their homes and arrested them.

They are James Corey, txetive second grade, of 298 9th St, Midland Beach. S. and Frank Nowk-ki, detective second grade, LfljLJL-lJLZ 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 31, at Garden. Page 40. Hersheys beat Crescent- Hamilton six, 2 0.

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