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STATS OF NEW YORK ) SS. COUNTY OF NEW YORK CLARENCE B. LES, being duly sworn, deposes and Bays: That he resides at 11 Crestwood Avenue, Mutley, New Jezsey. That he is Treasurer of the United States Radium Corporation with principal offices at 30 Church Street, New Tork City. That on May 19th, 1926, he attended a conference in the Directors Room of the offices of the said United States Radium Corporation at 30 Church Street, New York City, between the hours of 10:40 A. M. and 11:35 A. M. That there were present at said conference, W. Redmond Cross, Dean S. Edmonds, Joseph W. Burden, Directors of the said Corporation; Arthur Roeder, President and Director of said Corporation: Dr. Joseph P. Knef of Newark, New Jersey: and the deponent. That deponent attended a conference with Dr. Joseph P. Enef, Josiah Stryker, and James N. M. Tams, on the morning of May 12th, 1926, in the offices of Lindabury, Depue and Faulks, located at 763 Broad Street, Newark, New Jergey, at which time maid Dr. Inef expressed a desire to make a proposition to the Directors of the United States Radium Corporation, and that the said conference of May 19th was arranged for the purpose of hearing said proposition from Dr. Knef. That the deponent and all of said parties to the conference of May 19th were present at the start of said conference and all parties thereto remained during the entire conference, which lasted from 10:40 A.M. to 11:35 A.M. That deponents participated in said conference and paid strict attention to what was said and done thereat, and that the following is a true and correct report of the substance of what was said and done at the conference. Dr. Inef opened the conference by stating that he was coming to us looking for justice. He dwelt at sone length on the vast amount of research work which he had done on the so-called "Radium Necrosis" cases although he did not use this specifie term. He told