Show LEWIS fOUND I LOS ANGELES Oct 31 APAt AP APAt AP- AP At the end of more than six months I of trl trials Js in state and federal courts to t which a career of ot high finance lod led them S S. S C. C Lewis and J Jacob cob Berman central figures in the Julian Ju Julian Ju- Ju IUan lian Petroleum corporation failure today found themselves facing the prospect of prison terms Convicted Con d last night In federal court of ot using the malls mails to defraud in connection with the financing of th the Lewis Oil company Lewis on eight counts and Berman Derman on seven the they may be s sentenced to prison terms of five ye years rs and fined tined 1000 lOOt on each count Sentencing of the two and their codefendant Clarence Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence O. O Steppe convicted on one count was set for tor Monday after after- noon Prior to their conviction In federal federal fed fed- federal eral court Lewis and Berman had undergone a month five-month trial In su superior superior SUO su- perlor court on charges of conspiracy conspiracy acy to violate the state corporate securities act in the frenzied frenzied financing ing of the ill Ill fated Julian P Petroleum corporation They and their s several sv- sv veral v- v eral codefendants w were re acquitted The government contended that an issue of gold notes was as sold throughout a dozen states and sev several sey- sey eral Canadian provinces s accompanIed accompanied accompanied nied by false promises of a 30 bonus within thirty days for each invested Sales of ot these notes approximated ed a million dollars federal prosecutors prosecutors prose prose- tutors claimed |