Show MAN SHOOTS SElf SEVERElY WOUNDED LOS ANGELES March Marci 3 Fred V L. L Hughes Hughs 35 son ron of Mrs John R. R Hughes Republican national committeewoman com com- of Yakima Wash was in a critical con condition today with j a head wound from a n. bullet fired By Ily him last lat night in a fit of melancholy Miss Geneva Genera Ward Vard 18 his fiancee cooked cooker dinner for him at his hie apartment apart apart- ment ment- She said fald Id he lie had been drinkIng drinking drinking drink drink- ing and declared he wanted to die we She attempted to take a pistol she found in itt the room and Hughes sculled led fled with her Mi Miss Ward r ran n to summon police but Ward h hm her back j Kiss me mc good bye bab baby I Im I'm go Ing away he said She k kissed ed him and again ran t to call can police The officers fo found Hughes on the floor loor a bullet in his s head |