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Form F. R, 285
For Immediate release

STATEMENT POR THE PRESS
BANK DEBITS

Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
April 15, 1940

Debits to deposit accounts (except interbank accounts), as reported by banks
in leading cities for the week ended April 10, aggregated $7,673,000,000* Total
debits during the 13 weeks ended April 10 amounted to $107,958,000,000, or 5
percent above the total reported for the corresponding period a year ago.

Federal
Reserve
District
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St, Louis
Llinneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
Sen Francisco

SUMMARY BY FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS
_______ (in millions of dollars)
Week ended —
13 weeks ended —
April 12,
April 10,
April 12.,
Aoril 10,
1940
1939
1940
1939
5,678
408
5,876
415
3,382
2,970
46,4-19
46,703
368
4l4
5,205
5,613
6,142
6,949
445
460
3,868
3,521
283
259
217
3,405
3,065
244
1,076
992
16,067
14,145
2,856
206
222
3,119
152
134
1,975
1,741
3,294
239
231
3,131
2,502
2,691
185
193
8,683
584
594
8,135

Total, 274 reporting centers
7,673
6,999
107,958
102,824
Her; York City*
3,122
2,714
42,456
43,053
140 Other leading cities*
3,903
3,672
56,704
51,659
133 Other centers_______________649_________ 613________ 8,798______ 8,112
DEBITS BY BANKS III EACH REPORTING CENTER, DURING THE WEEK ENDED APRIL 10, 1940
(in thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT 110. 1 - BOSTON
DISTRICT NO. 2 - NEW YORK (Cont*d)
Hartford
Conn,
Elmira
2,992
N. Y.
47,593
ti
t
i
New Haven
2,626
Jamestown
15,904
11
ti
Waterbury
New York
3,121,903
6,317
ti
Bangor
Maine
Poughkeepsie
2,932
3,153
n
it
Portland
7,142
26,779
Rochester
tt
Boston
18,004
Syracuse
Mass.
253,765
11
ti
Brockton
6,585
3,656
Utica
11
Fall River
3,953
11
Holyoke
2,582
DISTRICT HO. 3 - PHILADELPHIA
11
Lowell
Del.
Wilmington
25,929
2,877
11
Lynn
10,060
Camden
4,163
N. J.
11
tt
New Bedford
15,992
3,712
Trenton
n
Springfield
5,830
Allentown
Penna,
14,625
it
tt
Worcester
2,522
Altoona
12,579
tt
Manchester
N. H.
3,328
3,461
Chester
ti
Providence
R. I.
27,334 Harrisburg
12,869
11
1,866
Burlington
Vt.
2,208 Hazleton
ti
3,020
Johnstown
i
t
DISTRICT 1C. 2 - NEW YORK
Lancaster
6,133
ti
1,567
Stanford
Conn,
4,159
Lebanon
i
t
2,224
Montclair
H.J*
Norristown
3,279
ti
t
t
292,708
Newark
66,108 Philadelphia
tt
Korthern Hew Jersey
9,197
Reading
tt
Clearing House Assnf
9,014
35,670
Scranton
t
i
t
t
6,256 Wilkes-Barre
4,375
Passaic
tt
Albany
31,669 Williamsport
H. Y.
2,293
11
tt
5,148
Binghamton
4,055
York
ti
Buffalo
49,150

■^Centers' for which bank debit figures are available back to 1919



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DEBITS BZ BANKS III EACH REPORTING C3NTER, DURING THE WEEK ENDED APRIL 10, 1940
(In thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT HO. 4 - CLEVELAND
DISTRICT NO. 6 - ATLANTA
Lexington
Ky,
Albany
4,559
Ga,
1,296
Akron
Ohio
tt
Atlanta
14,215
45,724
Canton
ti
Augusta
7,567
4,706
Cincinnati
tt
67,826
Brunswick
744
Cleveland
tt
108,013
Columbus
3,987
Columbus
tt
Elberton
33,845
266
Dayton
tt
14,726
Macon
3,250
Hamilton
tt
2,626
Newnan
43S
Lima
tt
3,408
Savannah
6,489
Lorain
tt
1,081
Valdosta
928
Middletown
New Orleans
La.
2,353
45,705
Springfield
3,761
Hattiesburg
Miss.
1,185
Steubenville
tt
Jackson
2,074
6,719
Toledo
tt
27,128
Meridian
2,922
Warren
tt
2,310
Vicksburg
2,105
Youngstown
10,897
Chattanooga
Tenn,
10,912
Zanesville
tt
1,846
Knoxville
6,290
Butler
tt
Pa
2,029
Nashville
19,565
Erie
5,748
Franklin
600
DISTRICT NO. 7 - CHICAGO
Greensburg
1,299
Aurora
111.
2.339
Homestead
tt
776
Bloomington
2,998
Oil City
Champaigrt-Urbana 11
2,093
3,660
Pittsburgh
tt
133,233
Chicago
603,257
Wheeling
tt
Va.
5,847
Danville
2,013
tt
Decatur
4,166
DISTRICT NO. 5 - RICHMOND
tt
Elgin
1,783
Washington
tt
D, C,
Moline
61,041
1,939
Baltimore
tt
Md,
86,050
Peoria
13,371
t!
tt
Cumberland
1,664
Rockford
5,417
n
Hagerstown
tt
2,019
Springfield
5,551
Asheville
N.C.
Ind,
2,603
■ Fort Wayne
7,149
t!
Charlotte
tt
13,961
Gary
4,004
It
Durham
tt
Hammond
6,073
1,775
,n
Greensboro
tt
Indianapolis
4,695
48,203
tt
Raleigh
tt
South Bend
9,121
10,183
tt
Wilmington
tt
Terre Haute
2,507
5,303
tt
Winston-Salem
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
7,469
5,856
Charleston
tt
s . 0,
Clinton
4,195
1,315
rt
Columbia
it
Davenport
6,078
6,368
tt
Greenville
tt
Des
Moines
4,378
23,764
tt
Spartanburg
tt
Dubuque
2,536
2.339
Danville
it
Va,
Mason
City
1,651
2,610
tt
Lynchburg
tt
Muscatine
3,465
795
tt
Newport News
tt
Sioux City
2,402
8,172
tt
Norfolk
tt
Waterloo
10,763
4,154
tt
Portsmouth
Adrian
983
Mich.
844
tt
Richmond
tt
29,598
Battle Creek
2,372
tt
Roanoke
tt
Bay City
5,443
2,376
Charleston
tt
W. Va.
Detroit
10,360
182,741
tt
Huntington
tt
Flint
3,764
5,141
tt
Grand Rapids
11,959
DISTRICT HO. 6 - ATLANTA
tt
J ackson
2,767
Birmingham
ft
Ala,
22,865
Kalamazoo
4,956
tt
Dothan
tt
Lansing
677
4,903
tt
Mobile
tt
Saginaw
8,993
4,861
tt
Montgomery
5,128
Wis.
Green Bay
3,686
Jacksonville
tt
Fla,
19,367
Martitowoo
1,787
tt
Miami
tt
15,221
Milwaukee
63,675
tt
Pensacola
tt
2,000
Oshkosh
1,820
tt
Tampa
tt
6,806
Sheboygan
3,680



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DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER, DURING THE WEEK SIDED APRIL 10, 3.940
(in thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT NO. 8 - ST. LOUIS
El Dorado
Ark.
ii
Fort Smith
n
Helena
n
Little Rock
n
Pine Bluff
ii
Texarkana
(See also Tex.)
East St. Louis & Nat’l
Stock Yards
111 .
it
Quincy
Evansville
Ind.
Louisville
Ky.
it
Owensboro
Greenville
Miss.
Mo.
St. Louis
ti
Sedalia
i
t
Springfield
Tenn,
Memphis
DISTRICT NO.
Duluth
Minneapolis
Red Wing
St, Paul
South St. Paul
Winona
Billings
Helena
Dickinson
Fargo
Grand Forks
James'town
Minot
Aberdeen
Sioux Falls
La Crosse
Superior

1,253
2,936
421
8,617

1,656
687
8,151
1,893
6,978
31,075
1,276

1,238
120,644
492
3,514
31,506

9 - MINNEAPOLIS
10,457
Minn,
ti
77,322
ii
399
ii
37,584
ii
4,931
ti
1,213
2,328
Mont,
ti
2,458
292
N. D.
it
4,357
it
1,086
ti
386
tt
770
S. D,
1,053
ii
3,941
Wis.
2,461
tt
931

DISTRICT NO. 10 - KANSAS CITY
Colorado Springs Colo.
2,332
it
Denver
35,096
tt
944
Grand Junction
it
Pueblo
3,929
Atchison
638
Kans,
it
Hutchinson
2,93.9
tt
Independence
625
ti
Kansas City
3,835
tt
Lawrence
794
ti
858
Pittsburg
ti
4,612
Topeka
it
9,460
Wichita
1,861
Joplin
Mo*
11
66,556
Kansas City
11
5,921
St, Joseph
636
Neb.
Fremont
11
6,362
Lincoln
11
29,375
Omaha
3,848
N. M.
Albuquerque
4,936
Okla.
Bartlesville
11
2,763
Enid
11
Guthrie
311



DISTRICT HO. 10 - KANSAS CITY (Cont’d)
1,455.
Okla#
Muskogee
t
?
24,617
Oklahoma City
1!
572
Okmulgee
I
T
19,651
Tulsa
Wyo.
1,364
Casper
t
t
2,372
Cheyenne
DISTRICT NO. 11 - DALLAS
Ariz.
Tucson
Shreveport
L<3.«
H. M.
Roswell
Tex,
Abilene
ti
Austin
it
Beaumont
1
1
Corsicana
1
1
Dallas
f
i
El Paso
t
i
Fort Worth
tt
Galveston
11
Houston
11
Port Arthur
11
San Antonio
ti
Texarkana
(See also Ark.)
11
Tyler
11
Waco
11
Wichita Falls

2,832
9,103
913
1,782
10,448
4,463
761

53,376
6,099

16,866
6,615
50,860
2,592
15,757

1,136
2,527
3,03S
3,395

DISTRICT NO. 12 - SM FRAllCISCO
12,005
Ariz.
Phoenix
3,818
Calif•
Bakersfield
5,638
J1.
Berkeley
11
6,446
Fresno
11
9,286
Long Beach
ii
180,902
Los Angeles
n
23,711
Oakland
11
5,596
Pasadena
1
1
24,196
Sacramento
n
2,916
San Bernardino
11
11,651
San Diego
160,550
San Francisco
11
4,956
San Jose
11
Santa Barbara
2,433
ii
4,376
Stockton
Idaho
3,943
Boise
2,947
Uev.
Reno
1,927
Ore*
Eugene
11
33,923
Portland
t
i
3,507
Salem
2,680
Utah
Ogden
i
t
14,909
Salt Lake City
1,560
Wash.
Bellingham
1
1
1,977
Everett
i
t
43,525
Seattle
it
10,543
Spokane
t
i
9 ,063
Tacoma
11
1,725
Walla Walla
II
2,894
Yakima