Other, May 27, 1926

STATE OF NEW YORK ) SS. COUNTY OF NEW YORK ) ARTHUR ROEDER, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he resides at 467 Lincoln Avenue, Orange, New Jersey. That he is President of the United States Radium Corporation with principal offices at 30 Church Street, New York City. That on May 19th, 1926, at about 10:35 A. Me, he attended a conference in the offices of the said United States Radium Corporation at 30 Church Street, New York City. That there were present at said conference, Mr. W. Redmond Cross, Mr. Dean S. Edmonds, Mr. Joseph W. Burden, Mr. C. B. Lee, Dr. Joseph P. Knef, and the deponent. That deponent introduced Dr. Knef to the members of the conference and explained that Dr. Knef had asked for the conference for the purpose of making a proposition to the Directors of the said United States Radium Corporation. That deponent remained during the entire conference. That deponent 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. Knef opened by saying that he had come to us looking for justice. That he had been to great expense of time and money investigating a disease that he called "Radium Necrosis" and used specifically the names Carlough, Maillefer, Kuser, Maggia, saying that these girls had suffered from a disease and that he had a large number of others that he was treating and had been treating+ He produced for examination X-Ray films which he stated were pictures of the jaws of some of the cases mentioned and of some other cases, calling particular attention to one strip film that he said was a case that had come in about ten days before. He also produced a small glass jax which he said contained a gragment of the jaw bone of one of our former operators.