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REGEIVED Root, CLARK, HOWLAND & BALLANTINE ELIHU ROOT, JR ARTHUR A. BALLANTINE GRENVILLE CLARK 31 NASSAU STREET SILAS W. HOWLAND NEW YORK ALFRED C. INTEMANN CLINTON COMBES MAXWELL STEINHAROT LOYAL LEALE THOMAS R. STRAHAN MORTIMER BOYLE GEORGE E CLEARY BERNHARD KNOLLENBERG LEO GOTTLIEB CLOYD LAPORTE 6 LIHO ROOT COUNSE WILLIAM P PALMER CLARENCE M TAPPEN EORGE O. REDINGTON WILKIE BUSHBY ETHAN D ALYEA HERBERT HAUGHTON BELL ROBERT M. BENJAMIN STATES EDWARD D. BOYD LLOYD K GARRISON WERNER ILSEN FRANKLIN E. PARKER,JR June 22, 1925. United States Radium Corporation, 30 Church Street, New York City. Attention of Mr. e Roeder. Dear Sirs: I am sending herewith a new draft of the proposed letter to the present preferred and common stockholders of the Company, offering to permit them to subscribe for new shares of a company to be formed for the purpose of taking over certain possible pharmaceutical and medical develop- ments connected with the production and sale of radium in the United States. You will notice that I have changed the provision of the letter with reference to the nature of the preferred stock to be issued by the new company. The plan of the Com- mittee to distribute one share of common stock as a bonus with each share of preferred stock purchased is prohibited by law. The letter is therefore changed to read in such a manner that the stockholders will have the right to sub-