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Show DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY GOING TO EUROPE SOON TONOPAH, Feb. 3. (UP) Death Valley Scotty, monarch of all he surveys sur-veys in the west's best known desolate deso-late spot, is going to Europe. Scotty has informed friends he would sail on the Europa or Bremen, fastest trans-atlantic liners now in service, about the end of February. Scotty said he had a "date" in Paris March 1. "I'm either going to br'eak that bank at Monte Carlo, or not come back," he informed other friends at Las Vegas. The famous and erstwhile erst-while mysterious millionaire said he would have plenty of money for the trip. Closing his "shack,"- palatian desert de-sert home on the edge of Death Valley, Val-ley, left him free to make the trip, Scotty declared. It wasn't the lack of visitors or guests that led him to close his famous home, he maintained. maintain-ed. "No, sir. It was ghosts. Why, on moonlight nights they would slip up and toss rocks on the roof right on that imported tile. Mebbe the valley gets you sooner or later anyhow, I got nervous and closed the castle down tight," he explained the Vegans. |