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Show i MINISTERS PROTEST 1 j DANCE HALL OPENING I J SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 21 Dance .halls allowed to open in this city by Mayor Edwin J. Brown to bring back loggers who, he says .formerly spent I j large sums here in their idle hours. I but have drifted elsewhere to enjoy life, are detrimental, declares the Seat- I I tie council of churches, representing 12 denominations. A resolution adopted by the coun-ell coun-ell asks the mayor to close tho danco 'halls. The resolution was based on a H report by the Rev. 11. I. Chatterton. I who visited two dance balls. He de- H snibed them as the kind of place H that 'flourished In the rough days jH when whisky, wild women and pro- H feaslona) gamblers were in their hev- BH |