Project Editor: Jeffrey Miller, History 470: Digital History, Spring 2008

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FIND LIQUOR IN ROOM UNIVERSITY COLISEUM

Former Student Arrested-Two Professors, Three Women in Room.

Federal officers accompanied by Lincoln police raided a room in the University coliseum at the close of a university party after midnight Saturday night and arrested Alan Williams, former student at the university, and confiscated a small amount of liquor. Williams will be arraigned Tuesday before United States Commissioner Whitmore on a charge of illegal possession of liquor.

In the room at the time of the raid were Professors L. C. Wimberly, 3201 R, and Norman Eliason, 1700 Whittier, both of the English department, Mrs. Eliason, Miss Viola Butts, 330 No. 14th, and Miss Lucille Mills, 2812 Everett. The latter two are graduate students at the university.

The officers said they found about half a gallon of whisky and beer in cups on a table and about seven quarts of beer and a pint of whisky unopened. Five gallons of wine was found in Williams' room at 504 No. 14th. The women were sent home. The men were lodged in jail but later Professors Wimberly and Eliason were released. With the women they were charged to appear before District Attorney Van Pelt Monday for questioning. Williams was released Sunday afternoon on $1,000 bond.

Professors Wimberly and Eliason, it was said, were chaperons for the party, and the explanation is made that they were checking up after the party and merely happened to be in that room when the officers entered.

OMAHA. (AP). Harold D. Wilson, deputy prohibition administrator for Nebraska, said the arrest of one man in a raid at the University of Nebraska coliseum Saturday night, was the result of an investigation by school authorities, working with enforcement officers in an effort to "clean up" school functions.

Wilson said the small quantity of liquor seized indicated conditions at such school functions are good. He added that school authorities wished to make it clear that no one but the man arrested is accused. Suspicion was directed at the arrested man, Wilson said, at several private parties in hotels.

"The raid should discourage any further attempts to smuggle liquor into university parties," Wilson said.