Yugoslavia

In Tetovo, delinquent tenants had their house fired by Landlord Tefik Shazovich, lost all their belongings in the flames. Haled into court, Landlord Tefik Shazo-vich snapped: "The rent they owed me was just about equal to the price of their cheap furniture. We are quits now."

In Poduyevo, jobless Milovan Savovich, 30, who recently ate two Belgrade newspapers on a 20-c- bet, spied a dead, unskinned hare, wagered its peasant owner 60-c- he could eat all but the bones. He won. Asked what he ate for dessert, Savovich quickly snatched a fez from an astonished Moslem onlooker, swallowed it in pieces. Boasted he: "This is nothing. For 100 dinars ($2) I can eat a whole sheep skin."

In Nadrljan, Farmer Jovan Bata, 60, bought his first cow. A week later he found the animal dead in her stall. "I can't get over this loss," wrote Farmer Bata before hanging himself on a beam above.

Cripple

In Los Angeles, Mrs. Anna Johnson, 81, who customarily shaved her crippled 91-year-old husband with a straight razor, slashed his throat, then hanged herself. In a note addressed to the police she explained : "The last 40 years he has been chasing other women."

Coradi

In Denver, Victor Coradi burst out laughing when a $1 pistol he had bought to kill himself exploded, sent a bullet bouncing harmlessly against his chest. Calmed by police, Victor Coradi announced he would try to go on living.

Nightmare

In Manhattan, Bert Lascoff, 20, explained to police that he woke from "a bad dream" to find that he had chased his father out of their bedroom, pursued him through five rooms, stabbed him eight times with a bread knife. '

Writer

In Denver, Elmer Franklin McVay, 47, who since 1911 has spent all but 39 months of his life in jail, stole a typewriter on which to write his prison memoirs, was arrested and sentenced to three years in Leavenworth.

Hunter

Near Asbury Park, N. J., Invalid Hermann Schaar, 65, had his sons push his wheelchair into the woods, sat still while his dogs rounded up game, bagged six rabbits without moving.

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