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|| Hew. Broke and Hungry | During Stay in Hollywood) " Jobs were few and money was;bronchitis sufferer and once searce for Blizabeth Short dur. underwent a chest operation. jing her residence at a Hollywood; «pynen Beth and: the other hotel last year, two youths and the hotel's clerk told police last night, | ‘ Hardld Costa, 31, and. Donald ‘Leyes, 2 22—both residents of the hotel’ ‘at 1611 North Orange drive aid they had been boy friends! - cof, Eliabeth’s - two ‘roommates, Margery ‘Graham and Tynn Mar- } 1, * i . two girls checked out of the hotel Jast October,” the clerk added, “they piled their bag- car and drove off.” Cost: and Leyes rememberdd a girls when Elizabeth asked t¢ he. “Whenever we took the girls .|excusdd because “her hair‘nedded’ out to dinner, they always |@nother henna rinse.” 4 asked us if they might bring | Beth along,” Costa, recalled. “They ‘said the kid was broke’ and ‘hungry.” “Migs Short was always get- ting behjnd in her rent,” James McGrath, clerk at the hoted. i; remembered, ‘ “Whenever. she , did, a short, dark man-—about | He used to drive 2 black | ‘ " ‘} Ford sedan an | park it in’ ont.” cGrath said.the victim of the ‘fiendish tortur slaying last . t ‘Tuesday had beth a chronic . gage in the short, dark man’s: . date tRey had had with the tree: