Religion: Pallium for Schrembs

The death in 1938 of Patrick Cardinal Hayes left the Roman Catholic Church in the U. S. with only three Cardinals. Many a U. S. Catholic hopes that Pope Pius XII will create one or two new U. S.

Cardinals this spring. Last week the Pope announced, not a new Cardinal but his first major promotion in the U. S. hierarchy.

He made an archbishop of Most Rev. Joseph Schrembs, for nearly 18 years the well-beloved bishop of Cleveland, who next June celebrates his 50th anniversary as a priest.

Now 73, Bishop Schrembs comes of a poor Bavarian family (16 children) which sent him to the U. S. at eleven, at the behest of a U. S. bishop whom he served at Mass. Bishop Schrembs is the hierarchy's ablest hymn-writer, hymn-singer, pianist and organist. His elevation to archbishop, symbolized by a lamb's-wool pallium (resembling a stole) which will be sent him from Rome, does not carry with it a like promotion for his diocese. His title will be : Archbishop Schrembs, Bishop of Cleveland.