Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-31
Miss Mccormick
 Sides With Father
Battle Over Her Pending Mar riage to Max Oser Threat ems to Become a Contest in Court.

Chicago, May 30.-(By The A. P.l-z Mathilde Mccormick 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 planning to appear in rebate court tomorrow and tell Judge Horner that she wants her father, Harold F. Mccormick. million aire head of the International Harvester company, to be her guardian.
 Mrs Edith Rockefeller Mccormick, who recently divorced MT. Mccormick on grounds of desertion, has obtained a court order reopening the proceedings which were thought to have made MT. Mccormick Mathildes guardian. At the time of the divorce, Mathilde chose to stay with her father and the guardian ship proceedings were thought to be to clear away a legal obstacle to her mar riage to Oser.
 Under the Swiss law, it was explained, the consent of both parents or the legal guardian is necessary to the marriage of minor. Mrs. Mccormick was said to be unalterably opposed to the marriage, while Mir. Mccormick was said to be in favor of it as last resort, if it proved essential to his daughters happiness The objections of both were said to center in the disparity of ages between Oser, who Is sai 10 be at least 45 years old, and Mathilde, who is IT.
 Mathilde was brought up by her moth CT in a hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, re- ceiving only occasional visits from her father She had hardly laid aside her dolls and acquired a pony when she met Oser, who then owned riding academy, . nd har for rid off highly educated and a master of horse manship, Oser was said to have been idolized by the girl, and-he, in turn, it was added, gave her the affection of a father
 Last year Mrs. Mccormick returned to 1 Chicago, but Mathilde did not come to the United States until after her mother had obtained a divorce and she then join ed her father, her engagement becom- | ing known shortly afttrwards. At the l time MathiIde revealed something of her romance. saying that her hanee had urg- 1 ed her to come to America before theil marriage so that she might be more sure of herself and better know her peep pie At the direction of her father sht was entertained in New York, Chicago
 and Hot Springs, but, according ,w tC
 friends of the family, took but little in
 leIrSts III SocittS- AltHou5h tHelI hoHii 1 in Chicago was scarcely three blocks
 apart, Mathilde saw little of her mother l / Mir Mccormick then took the final steI toward clearing away all legal barriers lby seeking to have himself named hi sdaughter's guardian so that she coult l marry with his consent alone. The frs
 steps had hardly been taken when Ma thilde in New York announced her plan
 t5 sail for Europe Her plans wer kcancelled stsFthee s1ass moment. however 1 when she received word that her mothe had had the guardianship proceeding
 reopsned on the grounds that sine ha not been given-legaI notice.
 Mathilde then rushed hack from Nel
 York A family council followed in pre- paration for the legal battle expeced to
 morrow over the issues raised by Mrs Mccormick