The Washington times., 1921-12-29
HARVESTER
KING MAY
WE'D DIVA
Mrs. Mccormick, Freed by Di-
vorce, Also Expected to Be
Married Again.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-~The Nc
Cormicks have secured D dean di-
vorce. Thank heaven both Of them
had sense enough not 20 subject
their children to the agony Of pass
ing through long period Of mud
singing"
Avoided SordId Tflnl N
This was the comment today q New
York friends of Harold r. Mccormick
and Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCor-
mick, friends cony ersanr with the "in.
nor facts of what threatened to set
= new low-water mark in the recent
long series of American social and
business scandals.
These friends said yesterdays brief
proceedings in Chicago were agreed to
by Mr.. and Mrs. Mccormick in order
TO prevent the ruin Of their name-a
name honored In the economic, social.
and artistic history Of America.
Now, their friends predict, each will
find happiness in . now alliance.
According to general reports, Mr..
Mccormick, % soon ~ certain legal
fOrInalities arc compiled with, expects
TO marry Gamma Walsl<a, the sinuOus,
beautiful, estranged wife Of Alexander
Smith Cochran, Yonkers millionaire.
Mime. walsl1a Seeks Decree.
Nine. Walska il living quietly in
Paris awaiting a hoped for divorce
from Mr.. Cochran and, II is whispered,
o union with the president of the Inter.
national Harvester Company.
Mrs. Mccormick, ON the other hand,
las been the recipient Of ardent at
tentfOn from q young foreigner and
this alliance In rather expected by her
friends.
On the stand yesterday Mrs. Nc
Cormick asserted she and her husband
had not lived together since May 81.
1918. Mrs. Mccormick was then en-
sconsed In Zurich, Switzerland. ending
the fifth year Of her voluntary exile
from America.
1t was on that May day in 1918
that Harold Mccormick found him.
self "out Of rapport with his wife
and more marked. particularly after
Mrs Mccormick from girlhood
forceful original character with the
power complex" always in the as
cendency) embarked upon new and
daring experiments in synthetic psy-
chology.
FByCn1C experiments.
These experiments included PRO
gression" from the teachings Of DR..
Carl Jung. noted psycho-analyzant, in
who retreat, nea rZurich, Mrs. Nc
CormicK found haven nearly nine
years ago. She had met DR.. Jung in
New York and believed he could cure
neurolis. from which she was suf-
fering.
Sympathetic as he was with the
teachings OF DR.. Jung, Mr.. McCor-
mick considered Mrs, McCormick's
plans to advance" Jung's doctrines
and found a psychological school of
her own bizarre. He found that Mrs.
Mccormick already had set herself
up as a maestro" and had enrolled
a number Of pupils.
One of these was Edwin Krenn, a
young Austrian architect. Krenn
came to Zurich to study psyche.
analysis and soon became attached to
Mrs. McCormick's "cult"
Mrs. Mccormick seemed to be in.
tensely interested in her young pupil
An investigation of his life is said
to have been made by agents OF Mr.
Mccormick in Krenn's native country
and In Switzerland. These reputed
facts were presented to Mrs. McCor.
mick some time ago.
Makes Krenn Her Secretary
BY way of answer she appointed
Krenn her private secretary, and
when she arrived in New York on the
George Washington late In September
last Krenn was with her. Passengers
on the vessel had an inkling of the
difficulties of the McCormicks when
they noted the sad bearing and
frequent spells of weeping of Mrs
Mccormick.
Z Young Krenn seemed the only one
who could draw her mind into less
somber channels. Each morning Mrs.
Mccormick sat In a port side steamer
chair with a rich robe of muskrat skin
tucked about her. Passengers saw
merely pale. middleaged woman
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