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Show WOULD BRING BACK WARSTRIM FAMILY Italian, Formerly of Salt Lake, Reveals Tragedy in Passport Application. Frank Pasini, formerly a well known member of the Italian colony of Salt Lake, and now a hotel keeper in Los Anpeles. has asked permission of the United States to return" to his native land. He filed his application for a passport yesterday at the office of tho clerk of the United States district court in Los Angeles and the affidavit accompanying that application revealed re-vealed a tragic talc in which the great world war and the influenza epidemic played important parts. ' Pasini was born in Italy, but came to the United States as a young man, beinff naturalized in 1905. fe was married in Salt Lake that year and became a father the next vear. His wife died soon after, the affidavit sets forth, and Pasini went back to Italy to place his little daughter, Rosa, in the care of his mother in-the old homo in that country. He then returned to his adopted land. , Every month Pasini sent money to provide for the support of the child and also his young brother and sister. It was through these allowances that poverty was kept from his old home. Then came the war and the brother joined the colors and was killed fighting fight-ing the Austrian hordes along the border bor-der of northern Italy. The influenza epidemic followed and the sister fell a victim of the disease. The mother and the little daughter of Pasini were left alone.' All the support they had was what the former Salt Lake man could send them and the remittances were often delayed on account of the uncertainties of tho mails. Now Pasini has applied for a passport pass-port that he may bring his daughter, who is now thirteen ye:irs of age, and his mother to the United States. Accompanying the applicnlion of Pastni is an autograph letter from Governor Bamberger offering his sympathy sym-pathy to the Italian on recount of the death of his young brother. The governor gov-ernor says the "brother made the supreme su-preme sacrifice for the highest ideals of mankind. ' ' Governor Bamberger knew Pasini personally and was acquainted ac-quainted with his young wife. . |