The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
MATHIEDE ID AID
 FATHER IN FIGHT
 OVER HER WEDDING
will Tell Judge She Wants Mccormick as Guardian. Mother Still Opposes
 Proposed Marriage
By Associated Press

Chicago, May 30.-Mathilde Me Cormick came home from New York today to take sides with her father in what has threatened to grow into a court battle over her marriage to Max Oser, Swiss riding master.
 Miss Mccormick tonight was plan hing to appear in probate court to- morrow and tell Judge Horner that nhe wants her father. Harold F. Me cormick, millionaire head of the ln- teruational Harvester company, to be her guardian.
 Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick, who recently divorced MT. MeCor- mick on grounds of desertien has obtained a court order reopening the proceedings which were thought to have made Mir. Mccormick Mathilde,s guardian. At the time of the di- yorce Mathilde chose to- stay with her father and the guardianship pro- ceedlngs were thought to be to clear away a legal obstacle to her marriage 
 to Oser.
 Under the Swiss law. 1t was eA- plained, the consent of both parents or the legal guardians is necessary to the marriage of minor. MIS- AfoCormick was said to be unalter- ably opposed to the marriage. @hile Mir. Mccormick was said 10 faVor 1t as A. last resort 1T 1t proved es- xentia1 to his daughters happiness The objections of both were sald to eenter in the disparity of ages pe- tween Oser, who was said to pc aI least 45 years old, and Mathilue' who Is IT.
 Brought Up in Hotel
 Mathilde was brought up by her y,other in a hotel In Zurich, SWitzer- land. receiving only occaslehai Fis it's from her father. Mrs McSoi- mick was said at that time 10 nave been studying psychology ana psS cbo-analysis. Mathilde. having been left much to her own devices, Was known to other guests at the hotel and town people as the poor ltttle rich American girl' She had hardly laid aside her dolls and acquired q pony when she met Oser, who then owned riding academy, and taught her how to ride. A former officer in the army, highly educated and a master of horsemanship, oser was said to have been idolized by the girl, and he. in turn, 1t was added. gave her the affection of a father.
 Last year Mrs. Mccormick re- turned to Chicago, leaving Mathilde In Zurich with a maid and governess. 1athilde did not come to the United States until after her mother had obtained a divorce and she then joined her father, her engagement becoming known shortly afterwards At the time Mathilde revealed some thing of her romance, saying that her fiance had urged her to come to America before their marriage so that sshe mil ght be more sure of her self and better know her own people. At the direction of her father she was entertained in New York, Chi cago and Hot Springs. but accord ing to friends of the family she took but little interest in society. Often 1t was said it required the combined persuasion of her elder brother and sister. Harold. Jr., and Muriel. to get her to attend dances and other little affairs given in her honor. AL though their homes in Chicago were scarcely three blocks apart, Ma thilde saw little of her mother.
 Marriage Essential
 Then, according to family friends. having finally decided that the mar riage was essential to his daughters happiness, MT. Mccormick took the final step toward clearing away all legal barriers by seeking to have himself named his daughters guar dian so that she could marry with his consent alone. The first steps had hardly been taken when Ma thilde, in New York, announced her readiness to sail for Europe. Her plans were cancelled at the last mo- ment, however, when she received word that her mother had had the guardianship proceedings reopened on the ground that she had not been given legal notice.
 With, natty little brown satin hat and gray tricotine suit replacing the little girl costume of tweed which she usually wore in traveling. Mathilde rushed back from New York and into her fathers arms. A family counsel followed in preparation for the legal battle expected tomorrow over the issue raised by Mrs. McCor- mick.