Show GERMANS CHEER AMERICAN GIRL Gertrude Visits Grandmother Grand Grand- Grand Grandmother mother Band Greets Channel Swimmer BISSINGEN GEN Germany Aug 13 By The Tho Associated Press Press- Press This TIIs little tillage of or 1265 i Inhabit Inhabit- Inhabitants inhabitants Inhabitants ants Is paying honors to Gertrude Ederle tho the American girl cirl conquer conquer- conqueror conqueror or of the th English channel who ho Is old paternal Visiting her year 75 year old grandmother and looking again over o the scenes where she the pla play as as a n year old l child Trudie as DS Miss Ederle Is affectionately known by her friends ar- ar arrived ar arrived rived here last night accompanied after a trl triumphal passage through Stutt- Stutt cart Stutt-cart s rt and neighboring villages The villagers villager hero here left lert nothing undone to show how their pride In the fact that a descendant ot or one of old residents bore the honor of being the the first first woman to swim wlm the English channel The village magistrate In a II pretty speech welcomed the American girl The Th firemans fireman's band played native airs a choir sang vine folk songs ones and the the air air resounded with Ith the Lochs hoch of or the villagers The The climax of or the days day's events e came as Gertrude saw her aged grandmother standing before the old century two old Zum Lamm Lams Lam's Inn where she he still stilt lives and spends active hours bours In tho ho gar gar- garlen garden ilen ar-ilen len den Jumping from froin the tho automobile In which she tho s e was riding Trudie rushed up to Granny bugged her herlong herlong herlone long and hard smothered mothered her ber with kisses and beamed as ns the hc old lad lady with tears of oC joy streaming down her withered face sobbed I never dreamed th tho name of Ederle would achieve word world fame fame Then the tho entire Ederle clan com comprising most of or Grandmother Ederle's Ederle 21 children and her 50 grandchildren and seven ven great great- grandchildren helda reunion Inside the Inn Ion nl |