Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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very good looking, very handsom. When he got to Russia, he was not what
he shouldJbe. He was a fake. He wanted to get into Russ* somway.
Whether it was not having a proper passport or somthbg Wke that, I
don1 t know. But we never saw any more of him.
Q. Did you ever find out who he really was?
A. No, but he talked well, he was educated. I think he %o&t that by
representhg himelf as an officer that he would get throm, you see. He
mi@t ' ve come from Russia, but he spoke clear wish.
Q. As well as Russian?
A. Well, I guess. (chuckles) Mdntt try it on m.
Q. So your dssion was to help the Russian people? Is
A. Well, yes, well, and there were so rmny strays ou see, inmigrants;
people fYam other countries got shoved up
wherever
the war was. And then those two thousand children that we had, we took care
of them. Thev cam down the--well. you'll hew about thaG when I get to
~ussia. And &I our service in ~ussia, we hired Russians. I had a s @ c ~ t q
who was a Russian girl. She could type &glish as well as talk it. We wanted
to help them, give them wo~k. We set up a sewing m m and they mde clothes.
We gave them the clothes, and we fed them. Then later we
back into Russia when the war was over. I was there when
but all this was happening when the war was still going
people, they didn't have horns. We had many in just
forth in and mund Vladivostok that we did VisitingnwsiQg &,.and took
care of the sick ones. That was mostly what the nurses d and the flospital.
Som of them did the visiting nursing some other , I thhk. I think
there was one nurse in Harbin. Now here, [refers to ] I'm still in
Japan.
Q. You'd just mentioned MI?. Hecke when I intempted you while you were
reading your diary. Were you surprised to see him over there?
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A. Well, I didn't know him. I was working on i-ry money g&ting it cashed.
He knew I was from the states md then he asked where I w@ fmm and, so forth.
And then he saLd, well, he is a brother to Mr. Van Hecke of Springffeld. Now
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I'm going on to another story.
'1 had a shampoo, a narcelk. I was Wte unused
was done. It was quite succes$ful, hwever. The
time of two person thmu&out.
while another dripped the little drop4 of warm
This dripping conthue rubbing
head being in a won
over a basin, " sounds" took it off, "and A. spr-i&l" can of water
holding about forty turned over rw head. Tne m> PPO@~
was carried on by a
c dryer in the hands of oae Jap oh while
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