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Noteworthy
By TIMES WIRES
Published September 26, 2006
Artworks said to be Hitler's will be sold It is impossible to say with certainty whether Adolf Hitler painted them, but 21 watercolors and two sketches attributed to the Nazi leader go up for sale today in England. A tiny auction house in Cornwall had to install extra phone lines to accommodate an expected crush of bidders from Canada to New Zealand. The artworks, which the auction house expects to sell for up to $8,000 apiece, were found in a farmhouse in Belgium, not far from where Hitler - then an aspiring artist - was stationed in Flanders during World War I. The anonymous owners of the works - mostly landscapes - had the paper tested to determine its age, confirmed the signature and matched landmarks in the paintings to sites where Hitler was posted, said Chris Walton of Jefferys Auctioneers at Lostwithiel in Cornwall. UPDATE Tainted spinach The Seattle company Triple B Corp., also called S.T. Produce, is recalling some salad products distributed in the Northwest because they may contain fresh spinach contaminated with E. coli, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday. So far, 175 people in 25 states have been sickened in the E. coli outbreak. Florida has had no confirmed cases. The FDA has recommended people not eat fresh, raw spinach, though on Friday it said that spinach grown anywhere outside three counties in California's Salinas Valley is safe to eat. Duke lacrosse case A stripper who performed at a Duke lacrosse team party where another dancer said she was raped was sentenced to 120 days of house arrest Monday for an unrelated probation violation. Kim Roberts was arrested nine days after the March 13 party in North Carolina and was charged with violating a probation agreement stemming from an embezzlement conviction. Roberts was with a North Carolina Central University student who told police she was raped at the party. A grand jury indicted three lacrosse players in the case.
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