TWO TEACHERS TAKEN IN RAID ARE SUSPENDED
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TWO TEACHERS TAKEN IN RAID ARE SUSPENDED
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24 February 1932
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Description
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Editorial Note:As with all previous articles about the raid, Wimberly and Eliason denied any connection to the liquor. Now, this may only have been a denial to ownership, but not a denial to drinking, which would of course have been grounds for suspension. However, denying "any connection" sounds like a complete denial of anything to do with the liquor, calling the suspension into question.
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TWO TEACHERS TAKEN IN RAID ARE SUSPENDED
(Continued from Page One.)
coliseum the night the raid took place had no connection with the raid and that testimony showed no undergraduate students were involved. The party had closed a half hour before the raid was staged. Wimberly and Eliason had chaperoned the party.
Detectives Weygint and Meyer of the Lincoln police force and Campus Patrolman Regler told the regents about raiding a small supply room on the east side of the coliseum the night of February 13 and finding the alleged liquor, the faculty members and Alan Williams inside. Affidavits of the federal prohibition officers participating in the raid also were presented.
Williams is free on $1,000 bond pending action of the federal grand jury which convenes in March.
Statement by Chancellor
Following is the statement issued by Chancellor Burnett Wednesday noon:
"The university regents were in executive session on Tuesday to secure information relative to the recent raid and seizure of liquor at the university coliseum and the arrest of Alan Williams, Prof. L. C. Wimberly, N. E. Eliason and others. The regents heard testimony of two city detectives in charge of liquor enforcement and one campus policeman and were presented with affidavits from the federal prohibition officers who made the raid.
"Dr. L. C. Wimberly, professor of English, and Mr. N. E. Eliason, instructor of English, were ordered suspended from their positions until September 1, 1932. Their classes will be taken over immediately by other instructors.
"Mr. Alan Williams is not in any way connected with the university and his case is in the hands of the federal prohibition officers, to be presented to the federal grand jury.
"The evidence indicated that the student committee which conducted the All-University party at the coliseum on the same night as the liquor raid had no connection with the latter and that no undergraduate students were involved. The student party itself was entirely above criticism according to reports made by all persons questioned concerning it."
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Author: Staff, The Lincoln Star
Title: "Two Teachers Taken in Raid are Suspended"
Periodical: The Lincoln Star
volume:
pages: 1, 8
24 February 1932
Nebraska State Historical Society, film 071 L63s 2233, copy and reuse restrictions apply, http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/services/refrence/use_policy.pdf
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TWO TEACHERS TAKEN IN RAID ARE SUSPENDED