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Show SENTENCES GIVEN LAW VIOLATORS MINNEAPOLIS. Minn , April 19 James A. Peterson, candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Ben&tor, and J. O. Bentall, So Clalisl candidate for governor, both convicted last week of violating the espionage act were sentenced to terms and five years, respectively In the federal fed-eral penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kan. bN Judge Page Morrison of the I federal district court here today. stav was granted in each case 'pending appeal. The conviction HU I the result of articles written by him land published in the Minneapolis and St Paul American, a weekly newspaper newspap-er which has been barred lrom the mails Bentall was convicted tor making mak-ing an address last July at Hutchinson, Minn . in which he urged repeal of the j draft law. 00 |