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Abe Fortas Since leaving the Department of the Interior, i. Fortas has been engaged in the private practice of law with the firm of Arrmold, Fortas aad Porter in Washington, D. C. Mr. Fortas is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Federated Department Stores, Incorporated, Cincinnati, Ohio; SuCrest Corporation, New York, New York; and Madison National Bank, Washington, D. C. Marital Status DIC and they reside at 3025 N Street, Hor st, Washington, 0. C. Military Service Mr. Fortas enlisted in the United States Navai Reserve on October 22, 1943, and entered on active duty on November 16, 1943, at Sampson, New York. He served on active duty until December 9, 1943, and was issued a good discharge as an apprentice seaman at Washiagton, D. C., due to the approved recommendation of a medical survey because of chorioretinitis. The "Washington Times Herald,” the daily newspaper formerly published in Washington, D. C., contained an article in the Rovember 12, 1943, iseue captioned, "Prediction" by Frank C. Waldrop. The column stated in part that Mr. Fortas would soon fall iato an unexpected physical decline and would be physically unfit for military service. The column further stated, "In May of this year, as it became news that the draft boards would have to call up fathers to fill quotas, the question arose as to why Fortas should not be drafted from his $10,000 a year job as Undersecretary of Interior --a job customarily filled by some political hack and in which any reasonably literate lawyer can do as well as he." The column further alleged that Mr. Fortas had previously received defernents.