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4 asked us if they might bring ‘Beth. Broke and Hungry During Stay “ Jobs were few and. money was; scarce for Blizabeth Short dur- jing her residence at a Hollywood| hotel last year, two youths and| the hotel’s clerk told police last; night, " Hardld Costa, 31, and Donald] Leyes, 22—both residents of the} shofel'gt 1611 North Orange drive .—said'they had been boy friends|- .of Elfabeth’s “two ‘roommates, -Margéty Graham and Tyan Mar- jtin, i “Whenever we took the girls out to dinner, they always Beth along,” Costa recalled. “They ‘said the kid was broke and hungry.” Leyes added that the threel girls occasionally worked as |waitresses, “Migs Short was always : ting behjnd in her rent,” ices McGrath, clerk af the hoted °. in Hollywood, bronchitis sufferer and once lunderwent a chest operation. “When Beth and the other two girls checked out of the hotel last October,” the clerk added, “they piled their bag- gage in the short, dark man’s... car and drove off.” Costf: and, Leyes remember a date they had had with the ree: girls when Elizabeth asked t¢-he excus@d because “her hair‘necded another henna rinse.” . | xemembered, “Whenever she- did, a short, dark man—about He used to drive 2 black { rd sedan and park it in’ nt.” Grath said. tht victim’ of the ndish torturd slaying last (Tuesday had beth a chronic $5.or 40—came in and paid her ' .