"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Mr. & Mrs. George F. Temple took out a $25,000 accident insurance policy on their six-year-old daughter Shirley Temple. Since wary U. S. insurancemen turned down such a risk on a child, a syndicate of British companies underwrote the policy, put in two special clauses: 1) Cinemactress Temple must not take up arms in defense of her country; 2) the policy will be voided if she meets death or accident while intoxicated.

In Washington the Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club held its first meeting of the year, lunched, as usual, on a meal prepared by some of its members. For the main course, Mrs. William Warren Barbour, pretty wife of New Jersey's senior Senator, brought in chicken salad. Said she: "I made it myself. I know it's good." At 1 o'clock the hostesses tied name cards around their necks, began serving, soon found that they had underestimated their guests' appetites. First to go was Mrs. Barbour's chicken salad. While a score of lunchers held out their plates for second helpings, Mrs. John Nance Garner piped, "I'd like some," got some. So did some of her neighbors, including Mrs. Cordell Hull and Mrs. Claude Augustus Swanson. The rest went on to cake.

Backstage in a Chicago theatre, Blue-singer Sophie Tucker, famed as "the last of the red hot mamas," munched a coffee cake and announced that at the age of 47 she had "adopted a grandma," one Blanche Roper, 74-year-old widow of Plainfield, Ill. Said Granddaughter Tucker: "Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have been adopting orphans. Well, I thought I'd go them one better."

Up in a Chicago debtors' court stood sad, portly, white-wooled Oscar De Priest, onetime (1929-34) Negro Congressman from Illinois. The judge asked whether he could pay a $38 judgment in favor of a stationer, got this reply: "I am penniless and looking for a job." All but $1,500 of his money Oscar De Priest sank in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election last autumn. The last $1,500 went for income taxes.

In Los Angeles, oldtime Actor William Faversham filed a petition in bankruptcy, listed assets of $250, liabilities of $3,499.02.

Fretted white-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, 54, at a lecture-recital in Philadelphia: "Ballroom dancing is hopelessly unintelligent. People don't know how to tango and they don't know how to waltz. What they are pleased to call dancing is just rhythmic hugging. ... Of course most people don't even know how to walk."

Troubled with gallstones, Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles summoned Dr. Abraham Ayala Gonzalez, chief of the Federal Health Department, to his ranch in Sinaloa. Minister of Communications Rodolfo Calles chartered an airplane, flew with his father and Dr. Ayala Gonzalez to Los Angeles. There General Calles was operated upon, his condition afterwards declared "very satisfactory."

Enthusiastic hunters are Arkansas' Governor Junius Marion Futrell and his daughter, Mrs. Ernie Maddox. To protect Arkansas quail Governor Futrell last summer began urging his Legislature to make the killing of a hawk a prerequisite for a hunting license. Last week Mrs. Maddox did her part by putting on her hunting togs, borrowing a dead hawk to sling over her gun, assuring cameramen that she had just carried out her father's request.

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