The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, TX) Thursday, January 30, 1941, page 1, column 1

Army Finally Calls Eager but Jinxed Dallas Registrant

Dallas -- The holder of Draft Board 10's unluckiest number, Otis Kittridge Wheeler, 4402 University Boulevard, will have another try next month at the jinx that has been dogging his Army ambitions.

Wheeler, who wanted to go to the Army, at first lay awake nights worrying that Registration Day would find him too young. The President finally set registration for the day Wheeler was 21. Overjoyed, Wheeler volunteered for the first quota. At his physical examination, the doctor turned him down.

Wheeler went home and trained up, talked the board out of another examination, and passed. The day the board's first quota was made up, he fell and broke his ankle.

His ankle healed, he turned up again Tuesday at the board's offices in the old University Park fire station. The staff, with crossed fingers, moved him up to Class 1-A and booked him for passage to the Army on Feb. 6.

Otis K Wheeler