Daily News from New York, New York • 3

3 Vi i odd Mmfl went up, its Champion, died of a rare blood disease. The cast of the show was not told until the curtain came down after the first performance. Before joining "42nd. Street" Fradkin had been musical director for Broadway hits "Gypsy" and "Timbuktu." During his career, the Brooklyn native worked with such stars as Sal Mineo, Yvonne DeCarlo, Andy Devine, Eddie Foy Jackie Cooper, Dorothy Loudon, Darren McGavin, Dody Good-, man and Tom Ewell. Fradkin's work involved not only show tunes, but jazz, opera and classical music.

Fradkin, who lived on the upper West Side, will be buried tomorrow after services at the Riverside Chapel, Amsterdam Ave. and 76th St The family has asked that in lieu of 5hilip Fradkin hit-run victim. flowers, contributions be made to the Musicians' Emergency Fund, co Local 802, 302 W. 42d St Say Helnisley tried to weed out unwed By JERRY SCHMETTERER and STUART MARQUES Broadway musical director Philip Fradkin was killed by a hit-and-run driver early yesterday as he and other members of the "42nd Street" company left a West Side nightclub. Police said Fradkin, 61, was near the corner of W.

57th St and 11th Ave. trying to hail a cab at 1:45 a.m. when he was hit Cops said the motorist in a dark Chevrolet sped away. Cops have no clues as to the identity of the driver. 1 Fradkin was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5 a.m.

of internal injuries. "Phir made an enormous contribution to the musical department of '42nd said Mark Bramble, co-author of the show. "He was a lovely man, and it's a great loss to our show and to the theater itself." David Merrick, the show's producer, called Fradkin "an excellent musical director" who gave 42d Street' "its tempo and zest" At last night's performance, musical director Eileen LaGrange took over for Fradkin. 'J-- Police said Fradkin had been attending a party for Broadway dancers at the Red Parrot at 617 W. 57th St He was musical director of "42nd Street" for two years.

THE HIT SHOW, seen by hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country, opened on a tragic note on Aug. 25, 1980. Hours before the curtain By BELLA ENGLISH Tudor City to charge that Helmsley is trying to evict tenants in the wake of the court ruling. IN THE LAST THREE DAYS, several tenants have received an HPD affidavit form mailed by Tudor City management demanding to know the apartments' occupants. The letters were sent by certified mail.

Gliedman said yesterday he will sue for an injunction to make Helmsley stop using the city forms. "We are obviously very upset at the use of the form, which has been used for rather blatant ulterior purposes," he said. The document is intended only to allow landlords to determine overcrowding, Gliedman said. Tudor City, off First Ave. between 40th and 43d has not had a single such complaint he said, in 36 years of record-keeping.

"John McKean, president of the Tudor City Tenants Association, said many of the tenants, particularly the elderly who have roommates to meet expenses, feel they must respond to the forms or risk legal punishment Two city officials yesterday charged that real estate magnate Harry Helmsley has misused official city forms in an effort to find out if unwed tenants are living together in the 3,500 Tudor City apartments, which he owns. The charges were made following a ruling last week by the State Court of Appeals that said unmarried people sharing apartments could be evicted. A spokesman for Tudor City management said yesterday it was trying to determine who is living in the apartments "as a result of numerous complaints from tenants with leases about subtenants. We sent out a simple form in the mail in an effort to simply find out who is living in each apartment" Anthony Gliedman, commissioner of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development and City Council President Carol Bellamy held a press conference at Iff A3 i fn i v-fe OPI Work crew places plastic sheets over apartments that lost roofs in tornado that swept part of Houston. Twisters raised havoc throughout Texas.

when the storm struck about 3 a.m. The wind threw the youth 200 yards, killing him. "I was trying to hold him as tight as I could," said Scott Thomas, 18, who was sleeping next to the boy in the trailer. "It blew him away from me. He flew out the top of the trailer." Kelly Handsbrouch, 4, was sleeping when' a six-ton tree crushed through the roof of her bedroom in north Houston, killing her.

Texas, where tornadoes wrecked an estimated 350 homes and knocked out the power to 200,000 people. The National Weather Service said 10 tornadoes were reported in Texas and the Texas Department of Public Safety said aerial surveys indicated as many as 17 may have touched down with 100 miles of Houston. Among the victims were Daniel William Rau 15, sucked out of his family's trailer home near Prairie View Houston (UPD A swarm of up to 18 tornadoes roared through, southeast -Texas early yesterday, killing at least 10 persons, injuring more than 50 others and leaving a 150-mile trail of destruction from Houston to near San Antonio. The Texas twisters claimed some victims as they slept, bringing the death toll to 14 from three days of tornadoes and torrential rains that stretched from the Great Lakes region to Dixie. One tornado touched down near the Houston International Airport, causing some injuries and damage and closing the airport temporarily.

The-airport also was pounded by baseball-size hailstones, accompanied by wind gusts to 70 mph. "It looks like a war out there and we lost," said a spokesman for Houston Lighting Power Co. in southeast a I 7.