The Mena weekly star., 1922-02-23
|O|L MILLIONS VS. | MA|DENDS LOVE
AIatilde M'COrmick's Romance Op- posed on Mothers Side of Family John D. Rockefeller Is Known to
 Dislike Foreign Alliances.

l Chicago, Feb. 1s-Miss Matilde Mccormick, 16-year-old daughter of Harold F. Mccormick, millionaire president of the International Har- yester Company, may know tomorrow whether she is to have her fathers consent to marry Max Oser, 48-year- old proprietor of a Zurich, Switzer- land. riding academy.
 Tonight an "armistice" is in effect between father and daughter at the old Cyrus Mccormick residence, where Mir. Mccormick has lived since he sold his town and country homes to Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McC Cormick. | following their recent divorees. MT. Mccormick came home from l New York this afternoon to talk mat ters over with Miss Matilde, but the discussion temporarily was postponed, and probably will be held at family council at Lake Forest tomorrow morning at the home of Mr. McCor- mick's mother.
 An "Armistice" Now.
 We haven't talked it over yet" Mir. Mccormick said tonight. sIn | fact, we have agreed on a sort of ar mistice for the present. I thought it would be good thing to have my daughters picture taken and the pho 1 tographer is here now. We have just been gossiping over our coffee and cigarettes, the other matter can wait"
 To reporters, who boarded his train in the suburbs, MT. Mccormick said: 1 "Anything have to say I will say ] thru my daughter, when the time comes. l don't know how much au- thority fathers have nowadays in these matters. Of course, she has spent half her life in Switzerland, and they handle these things differently over there."
 He indicated Miss Matilde's regard for her riding master was not news to her family, but the publicity had taken him by surprise.
 "She's Wonderful Girl.-
 Tt came all at once," he told the re- porters.
 Have you met herr" he asked the | interviewers.
 Assured they had not, he exclaimed: "She's wonderful girl"
 If Miss Mccormick wins the consent of her father and paternal grandmoth- CT at the family conference tomorrow, family friends say her task will be only one-third accomplished Her fuAvAHSis Aias Iullil tNochelClief N1c- Cormick, and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., are still to be seen. Rockefeller Takes Hand. Mrs. Mccormick, on advice of her father, tonight was understood by family friends to be bitterly opposing the marriage. Close friends of the Mccormick household revealed that John D. Rockefeller. family patri- arch, had taken a hand in the love af- fair of his sub-deb granddaughter.
 Rockefeller, it was reported, does oppose the marriage on the ground that Max Oser, the Swiss groom" is poor man, but because he is foreign born. The master financier, it was stated, always has pointed with pride to the fact that his family was free from foreign entanglements.
 No bankrupt counts nor deadbeat foreigners need come kowtowing around my family" Rockefeller has stated publicly.
 Mir. Mccormick was understood. however. to be ready to carry on the fight for Matilde against the Rocke- feller side of the family. He believes l if she loves the groom and warts to marry him, she should be allowed to go ahead.
 Friend Praises Oser
 McCormick's general attitude in his interview was that his only thought was the happiness of his daughter and her wishes were his.
 loser is an unusually fine man." said Colby. "Matilda's account of her friendship with 0ser is beautiful story. The girl is older than her 16 years. Indeed, she seems more ma ture than her sister, Muriel, three years her senior"
 Glad Muriel Isn't There. Muriel did not return from New York with her father, and judging from an announcement from the Cy- rus Mccormick home last night Miss Matilde probably breathed sigh Of relief when Mir Mccormick arrived alone.
 Miss Lois Philbrick, Mir. MeCor- mick's secretary, said last night that i Miss Matilda hopes that Miss Muriel won't come home with their father she says Miss Muriel will just raise Old Ned.v
 Dispatches from New York quoting Miss Muriel as eharacterizing her sis ter's matrimonial ambitions as ''ridi- culous" indicate the fear perhaps was well founded.