Evening star., 1922-06-01
.OSER'S ELIGIBILITY
ON TEST IN COURT
Miss McCormick's Father
Made Guardian as Court
Seeks Light on Romance.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June judicial inyesti-
galion of Max Oserss eligibility and
qualifications as husband for Mathilde
Mccormick Is the next step in the In
ternational romance Of John D. Rookie
feller's seventeen -year-old granddaugh-
ter and the friction between her parents.
Today Mathilde has guardian who
Is said to be ready to give his consent to
her marriage to the Swiss horseman.
who was her riding master during her
girlhood days In the Alps. Her father,
Harold F. Mccormick, titular head Of
the International Harvester Company
millions, was accepted by his divorced
wife as a guardian but for one excep-
tion The horseman Of Zurich Is the
exception, and Judge Horner OF the pro-
bate court Is expected to decide whether
Max's twenty-seven years seniority over
the age Of his prospective bride ana
his comparative poverty furnish sufii-
cient grounds to grant an injunction
restraining Mr.. Mccormick from giving
his consent to the international mar
riage.
Mercenary Motives Feared.
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick.
Mathilde's mother, expressed the fear
that there were mercenary motives in
Oser's .courtship Of her daughter. who is
qleir to part Of the Rockefeller millions
as wen as some Of the Mccormick
wealth. The marriage, Mrs: McCormick
said, might subject Mathilde to the
Vaccinations and intrigues of design
ing persons
situation Of an injunction to prevent
Sotn User.
Mccormick sort will likely head Ma .
thilde's romance to a higher court, 1t
was said today.
Appeal Step Intimated.
Former Judge Charles S. Cutting,
counsel for Mrs. Mccormick. inti-
mated as much If Judge Horner
stamps his judicial 20 X" on Mr.. Nc
Cormicks tacit approval of the con-
templated union and denies the petit
ton.
At the suggestion Of the court and
the concurrence Of counsel VINO en-
gagged in a verbal tilt yesterday over
the petition. Mr. Mccormick has
marriage at least until Saturday:
Neither Mrs. Mccormick. Miss
Mathilde nor-her father was In court.
Judge Horner read Mrs. McCor-
mick's answer carefully. 1t set up
these points:
having reached her seventeenth birth
day only last month.
! That Mrs. Mccormick believes that
the sole object Of seeking appoint
ment of a guardian 'is to permit him
to give his consent. pursuant to the
marriage of Mathilde Mccormick and
one Max Oser. a citizen OF the con-
federation of Switzerland. and not an
American citizen"
ObJeetion to Age.
Objections to Oser were listed as his
age. his Swiss citizenship. that he is
without a regular and certain in
come" and that Mathilde's marriage
to him might involve her in "Machina-
tions and intrigues."
Attorney Cassell denounced the pc
tition as an unusual and unheard- of
proceeding" He argued that Mrs.
Mccormick admitted her former hus-
band was AT and proper person to
act as guardian. yet declined to con-
sent without setting up sufficient
reason. He declared that without
proper evidence Of unfitness there
was nothing for the court to do but
grant the request for appointment of
Mr.. Mccormick.
The question OF marriage and SIM
liar personal relations is not in the
same category with education or
other more legal matters" he de-
clared. This court ought not to in
terfere with the guardian except un-
der very grave circumstances"
These are grave circumstances"
Interrupted Attorney Cutting. This
girl will lose her American citizen
ship-that alone is sufficient. Then
there is the disparity in ages-we
will discuss that further when the
time comes. This girl is also the heir
to millions and that is believed to in
f1uence Oser."
Mr. Cassell interjected that it was
1.-THE first time he knew of that pow
erty was made an objection in a case
like this
Here in America" he added, I'VE
believe 1t is commendable thing
for a wealthy woman to marry poor
y