The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
LOCAL EMPLOYES 10 PARTICIP IN HEINZ DINNER
International Banquet To
 Honor Founder Of .iA Big Business

Heinz company, in all parts of the United States, Canada, Scotland and England will gather simultaneously : about 62 banquet tables on October II in honor of the unveiling in Pittsburg of a memorial to H. J. Heinz in the company's administration building.
 Birmingham's banquet will be held at the Tutwiler hotel at 80 o'clock. Six teen local employees of the Hing com pany will participate under the leader ship of T. c. Taylor, manager of the 2 office here. Rev. J. NJ. billiard will give the invocation and the program will include a number of interesting features.
 ' Unique among the events of the day II will be the broadcasting from Pitts burg of the central program to each of the different banquets in progress at that time. Station KDKA, the West inghouse Electric company will do the broadcasting to which all diners in the big group will listen at the same time. The same menu will be served at each of the 62 banquets.
 President Calvin Coolidge will speak from the White House to the diners and among the other spakers will be ], United States Senator George Whar- $ ton Pepper and Charles NJ. Schwab.
 Members of the Presidents cabinet United States senators, members of the House of Representatives at Washing ton, the governor of Pennsylvania and state, county and city officials will gather at the banquet table in Pitts burg with captains of industry and Sinance, masters of the professions and ether leaders of thought.
 With dinners served in fifty-four cities in this country, three in Canada, -four in England and one in Scotland the speakers in Pittsburg will talk to Q cosmopolitan audience within the g eamily, and with seven thousand of eheir most interested listeners invisible Amplifiers To Be Used
 Owing to the size of the PittSburg Banquet hall, a system of amplifiers will be installed to enable everybody to hear the spakers.
 Heinz company directors have terms of service ranging from twenty-five Co forty years. The board includes Cliff eord s. Heinz, a son of the founder |; Sebastian Mueller, N. c. Woodside, H. : c. Anderson, w. H. Robinson, Charles Heinz, E. D. McCaffrey, J. N. Jeffares and W. A. Kober.
 Among the employees are a man and woman who have been identified with She company for over fifty vars, while Q large group has been in the service eor from twenty-five to forty years. Ap- proximately 225 men have been awarded gold watches for twenty yaers of faith ful service, and many hundreds have N been given gold medals upon the com pletion of ten years. Three English employees have just received gold watches and fourteen were given gold snedals in recognition of their services. f It will be impossible for all Heinz employees to participate in the celebra- eion, regardless of its wide scope. Some are in the Far East, others in Africa, Australia and South America, but ban Quets have been arranged for as many hs possible.
 To distribute the g varieties, the lsompany employs 1,400 travelling sales men and maintains sixty-seven branch offices and warehouses. In addition its representatives are quartered in all trade centers of the world.
 Sixty-twO Banquets
 .Heinz company operates its own printing plant, bottle factory, can mak- Ing factory, box factory, tank factory, freight car line and tank car line.
 Founders Day banquets will be held an the following cities:
 England-London, Liverpool, Hull, 7, Bristol.
 z Scotland Glasgow.
 Canada-Montreal, Toronto, Winni- peg, bennington.
 sa United States-Albany, N. Y.; Al lentown, Pa; Baltimore, Md; Bir- mingham, Ala. Boston, Mass. Buffalo, N. T.; Chicago, Ill.,. Cincinnati, Ohio i; Z Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colo; Des Moines, Iowa. Detroit, Mich. Duluth, Mnn.; Harrisburg, Pa; Hartford, Conn; Houston, Texas; Indianapolis, Ind; Jacksonville, Fla; Kansas City, r Mo. Los Angeles, Cal; Louisville, Ky.i Memphis, Tenn; Milwaukee, Wis. New Orleans, La. New York, N <. r.; Norfolk, Va; Oklahoma City l, Okla; Omaha, Neb. Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsburg, Pa; Portland, Maine; Port land, Ore; Rock Island, Ill.,; Salt !. Lake City, Utah; San Francisco, Gal. Savannah, Ga; Scranton, Pa; Seattle Wash; Sioux City, Iowa; Spokane :. Wash; St. Louis, Mo-; St. Paul Minn.; Syracuse, N. Y.; Bowling Green, Ohio Evansville, Ind; Holland Mich; Medina, N. r.; Muscatine Iowa; Saginaw, Mich; Salem, N. J. Watsonville, Cal.