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THE EVENING SUN IK LATEST SPORTS 16 Pages 15 Cents BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1976 Vol. 132-No. 107 Two Stepbrothers Slain In Brawl, 22d Street Store Owner Charged Man Trying To End Row Nixon Greeted At Peking Airport By Important Chinese Officials Is Beaten Peking (AP) -Former Pres ident Nixon returned to Com munist China tonight 4 years Two stepbrothers were shot after the high point of his administration and 18 months aft er his resignation. death late last night during a street brawl outside a seafood Mr. Nixon and his wife, Pat, tore in the 400 block East 22d landed in Peking in a cold mist street at 10.16 P.M.

(9.16 A.M. ESTi The owner of the store was in an American-built jet opera ed by the Chinese national arrested and charged with the Deaths. The victims were identified as Steven Burley, 16. of the Waiting to greet the former President were 300 people described by a government spokesman as "ordinary citi 1600 block Chilton street, who was shot once in the chest, and Robert Burley, 22, his stepbrother, of the 2200 block Penrose avenue. He was shot twice in the head.

fH mm zens" and 50 Chinese who have visited the United States since the resumption of relations between the two countries in 1972. This latter group included Both victims were pro nounced dead at the scene. medical people, scientists William Charles Jackson, 25. trade delegations, journalists owner ot jacKsons seaiooa. and athletes.

was charged with both homi cides and was being held at the The Nixons were greeted at the airport by a delegation of Chinese officials headed by Hua Eastern district police station Police got conflicting ac Kuo-feng, the acting premier counts of the incident, but thev and including Chiao Kuan-hua foreign minister. The Nixons emerged from the plane smiling and waving do know that a brawl involving about 15 persons began outside the store shortly after 11 P.M. Apparently none of the participants was using a weapon. and received applause from the line of Chinese leaders as they Mr Jackson told police his descended the ramp. brother.

Robert Jackson, 31. The Nixons boarded the jet went outside to try to break up the fight or at least move it away from the front of the Friday in Los Angeles. The official reason for the Chinese invitation to the Nixons store When several of the started beating his broth er, Mr Jackson claimed, he left the store with a five-shot was "to mark the fourth anniversary of their historic visit to China exactly four years ago." Mr. Nixon is the first foreigner of consequence to meet Hua Kuo-feng, whose surprise appointment to succeed the late Premier Chou En-lai was an ca liber revolver and told the men to stop their attack. When they continued the Taking (Record) Stock(s) A workman sweeps up paper strewn on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange after a record 44,510,000 shares were traded.

The market closed at its highest level in three years as Wall Street enjoyed its busiest day in history for the second straight day. The Dow Jones average rose 12.04 to 987.80, the highest close since 996.76 February 13, 1973. Exchange workers tossed paper into the air after trading closed and the record was announced. beating, he claimed, he emptied the revolver at his brother's attackers. Steven Burley dropped in his tracks, while his stepbrother staggered around the corner and collapsed on Green-mount avenue.

AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT Former President Nixon and his wife, Pat, are greeted at Los Angeles International Airport by a Chinese official, Chu Cbuan-hsien, as they arrive to board a Chinese plane for their trip to China. Mr. Nixon is traveling as a private citizen. nounced February 9. There have been no formal banquets or important meetings since Chou's death, so the events scheduled for the Nixons will be the world's first chance to see how the rest of the Chinese leadership now lines up.

Observers say the Chinese hope that during his eight-day stay the former President will Mr. Jackson then returned to his store, reloaded his revolver and called police, who arrested him there and confiscated a revolver with five spent cartridges. Reagan Says Ford Offered Him Choice Of Cabinet Posts Louis EHasberg Dies; Amassed Only Full Set Of U.S. Coins say something critical of the fered Reagan positions in the administration. Reagan was campaigning in current white House policy ot detente with the Soviet Union.

The Chinese fear a U.S.-Soviet nuclear agreement that would give the Russians more freedom to move against China along their joint frontier. In Brazil, meanwhile, Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State, said that Mr. Nixon is expected to brief the Ford administration on his trip, particular Manchester today, staging a campaign rally here tonight, of miles to secure a rare piece, Mr. Eliasberg gradually began piecing the collection together, buying at prices that are bargain basement by today's inflated standards By 1949 his collection was complete, and since several of and putting in a final round ot appearances Sunday to con Police said some oi those involved in the original fight claimed the Jackson brothers merely interfered in the brawl, which had already moved from the front of the seafood store In another homicide reported overnight, a 43-year-old west Baltimore man who had been shot and mortally wounded was brought to the Bon Se-cours Hospital emergency room by an unidentified friend who disappeared.

Al Hargrove, of the 1900 block West Lexington street, died in the operating room about 8 two hours after he was brought in He had been shot once in the chest. Tuesday in New Hampshire's season opening presidential primary. "Well, I am a little surprised by his statement about my so-called Reagan said. It does come a little strange since he tried on two different occasions to persuade me to accept any of several cabinet positions in his administration Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, confirmed that Mr. Fotd had of- Manchester, N.H.

(AP-Ronaid Reagan wants to appoint a cabinet, not join one. so ne is wrapping up a New Hampshire primary campaign against President Ford who twice tried to hire him. Reagan played what clearly was one of his campaign hole cards Friday in rebuttal to President Ford's statement that Reagan is too far to the right to win a presidential election. Mr Ford and Reagan meet clude his personal hunt for New Hampshire votes. Mr.

Ford concluded his New ly if he has talks with Hua, the the coins in it are one-of-a-kind, Hampshire campaign Friday with a forecast of victory experts say no one can dupli former public security minister. President Ford has said Mr. Nixon's trip has no significance for foreign policy because Mr Louis E. Eliasberg, a Baltimore financier who spent a quarter of a century quietly amassing the only complete collection of United States coins in the world, died yesterday at his home in the 3300 block Bancroft road. Mr.

Eliasberg, who was 80. was honorary chairman of the board of the Finance Company of America, which he founded in 1917 and guided for more than 50 years. Born in Selma, Ala in 1896, he came to Baltimore in 1907 He attended City College for a year and began his banking career as a runner for the old Citizens National Bank He eventually founded his own successful finance company and went on to a remarkably successful business career. In adboard Insurance Company, he served as a director of numerous large firms, including Maryland National Bank, Read's, and the Tom Nixon is traveling as a private cate it, even the government. The collection was to be exhibited at the Philadelphia mint this spring.

Besides his wife. Lucille Eliasberg. Mr Eliasberg is survived by two sons, Louis Eliasberg, Jr. and Richard Eliasberg, both of Baltimore: a sis Police said a companion citizen without power to negoti "We're going to win not only in New Hampshire but elsewhere." he said in Dover Reagan was more guarded in his forecast. "I don't think that when you run against an incumbent you come to New Hampshire in the firsi primary with the expectation of winning at all," he said "The people here who have been campaigning for me have expressed their belief that a percentage somewhere in the 40 would be an extremely fine showing on my oart brought Mr Hargrove into the emergency room, helped attendants put him on a stretcher and left without identifying himself.

After interviews with Mr ate for the United States. He said Mr. Nixon had been given no special briefings for the trip Any expenses not paid by the Chinese government were to be covered by Mr. Nixon's own funds. Secret Service men who accompany him as a former President are paid for by the U.S.

government. Only 20 representatives of the U.S. media were permitted Continued on Page 3, Col. 5 LOUISE. ELIASBERG.

SR. Moore Distillery However. Mr. Eliasberg was best known for his priceless coin collection, which he started in the 1920 By the 1930 he had decided on a numismatic goal-gathering specimens of every coin produced by the U.S. Mint since it opened in 1792 Often travelling thousands Hargrove's friends and family police issued a warrant for a 56-year-old suspect.

ter. Mrs. Guy DuRivage of Fort Lauderdale. and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held in Mr Eliasberg's home tomorrow at 1 P.M.

Burial will be in Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Cemetery Reagan said the President telephoned him during his final Continued on Page 2, Col. 7 Brave Bards Livened Up Graveyards The Weather Occassional rain tonight and tomorrow. Lows tonight near 40. Highs tomorrow in the 50s. Bulletin Brazil, U.S.

Sign Accord Brasilia, Brazil (AP) Brazil and the United States signed an agreement today bringing the South American nation into the ranks of the world powers and setting up procedures to settle some serious bilateral disputes. Although the agreement does not pledge any U.S. military support, it gives Brazil the same status as Japan a key economic and political ally of the United States. (Earlier details. Page 3.) Erected hy his wife There also was a stoic acceptance in this Vermont epitaph "Beneath this stone our baby lays "He neither cries or hollers.

"He lived but one and twenty days "And cost us forty dollars." Social comment appeared in this New Haven stone: "God works a wonder "Now and then He. though a lawyer 'Was an honest man And a certain satisfaction appeared in this Ithaca (N stone sored by the Ohio Foundation for the Arts, was collected by Francis Duval and Ivan Rigbv of Brooklyn, Y. Most of the photographic exhibit is devoted to the extinct art of gravestone carving, illustrating the elaborate symbolism and detail of an art which had died by the 20th Century. But a small portion noted the whimsy which sometimes accompanies death. There was for example, this tombstone from Kittery, Maine: "We can but mourn his loss, "Though wretched was his life.

"Death took him from the cross Columbus. Ohio (AP)-Pity poor Sally Lord She had the misfortune to have her early American tombstone carved by a would-be poet. The stone, in Skaneateles. NY. reads as follows: "Underneath this pile of stones, "Lies all that's left of Sally Jones.

'Her name was Lord, it was not Jones. "But Jones was used to rhyme with stones It's one of the whimsical epitaphs in a display of "American Grave Stone Art, 1647-1903. now on exhibit at the State Oil-ice Tower. The display, spon While on earth, my knee was lame. "I had to nurse and heed it.

"But now fm at a belter place "Where I don't even need it." A philosophical question appeared in another Connecticut gravestone: "Since so very soon Was done for "I wonder why "I was begun for And someone in Calais. Vt. decided to have the last word with the following gravestone addendum: "PS. The old nuisance Campus Cutup Wallv Orawciyk, 17, of Chicago, contorted his tace into this appealing configuration during the annual ugliest man on campus contest at Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology. 1 sect today.