The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
Over 10000 Take Part In Unique Event Of Two
 Continents

PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 10.-In 62 cities of the United States, Canada and Great Britian, 10000 diners meet simultaneously tonight, in the worlds first International radio banquet to celebrate Founders Day of the H. J. Heinze Co.,, radio being used as the medium to tie into unit these scattered banquets.
 With the banquet in Pittsburgh act ing as the key, the entire program at the Heinze plant will be broadcast from the short and long wave station of KDKA, the worlds pioneer broad casting station of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing company and will be picked up on special receiving equipment already installed in the var iOus banquet halls and with loud speak CTS acting as toastmaster, speakers and orchestra, each of the scattrede banqnets will enjoy the same program as is carried on in Pittsburg.
 The effect upon the diners will be the same as though all were meeting under the same roof, though in the extreme points, the Heinz office in San Francisco and that in London, England, 5000 miles separate them.
 The dime will start at 6 80 o'clock eastern standard time at Pittsburg following the unveiling of a memorial to H. J. Heinz, founder of the com pany, which was erected through con- tributiOns of the employees. Emil Fuchs was commissioned to design the mem orial, which centers in a bronze figure of Mr. Heinz a little larger than life size. Supplementing the statue are two bas reliefs. The three works were com pleted in New York. Simple unveiling services will take place in the rOtunda of the administratiO tiOn building at noon Howard Heinrich, factory superintend- ent acting for the employees will make the presentation speech and the mem- orial will be received by MT. Heinz. These speakers, with a quartet and an or chestra, will complete the program.
 Speakers at the banquet tonight will include such distinguished persons as President Calvin Coolidge, who will talk from the White House and Charles M. Schwab, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis and Senator Wharton Pepper, who will make their addresses from Pitts burg. Other members of the Presidents cabinet, senators and congressman, the Governor of Pennsylvania, and state, county and city officials will gather at the banquet table with captains of industry and finance, masters of the professions and leaders of thought.
 Special direct telephone line connce- tions have been made between the White House and Pittsburgh. This special line will carry the Presidents message to Pittsburgh where it will be impressed simultaneously on a public address in- stalled in the banquet hall and also on the long and short wave transmit ting stations of KDKA.
 The Westinghouse company have made arrangements in the White House for the President to hear all the details of the banquet, on a radio receiver, as it is broadcast. Through this arrange inent the President can tell the progress of the banquet and be ready to start his address at the proper moment.
 All other speakers will be at the ban Quet table. Here q most complete sys- tenn of microphOne pickups has been installed There is a cluster of three micrOphones on the speakers table all controlled by an operator seated in an ether part of the hall. The operator also attends to the various simplifying units and other pickup apparatus.
 The voices impressed on this pick up installation are carried to the trans hitting stations located at east Pitts burg and from there broadcast on the long and short waves. KDKA's repeat ing sation KFKX, located at Hastings, Neb., will pick up the short waves and there rebroadcast the banquet pro- ceedings over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast.
 To insure the greatest possible blank ct of radio signals being thrown over the largest possible territory the West inghOuse stations XIV at Chicago and WBZ, at Springfield, Mass, will also pick up the short wave relaying signal O KOkA and repeat on their respective wave lengths the entire Heinz program.
 At each of the various cities where the banquets are to be held, special receiving equipment prepared by the Westinghouse company, under the di- rectiOp of an experienced operator, will pick up the signals on either wave and again simplifying the messages will send them through an unique loud speaker so as to be audible to the as sembled guests.
 In Great Britain. the pickup point will be in the offices of the Heinz company at London. Here special re- ceiving equipment will be installed and the short waves received. From Lon don, special telephone connections will L ka oo rrwr fha pooofyaI sS0naIo ko