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Form F. P.. 285 For immediate release STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS BANK DEBITS Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System April 29, 1940 Debits to deposit accounts (except interbank accounts), as reported by banks in leading cities for the week ended April 24, aggregated $8,517,000,000. Total debits during the 13 weeks ended April 24 amounted to $108,502,000,000, or 6 percent above the total reported for the corresponding period a year ago. SUMMARY BY FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS _____ (In millions of dollars)_____ 13 weeks ended— Week encled — April .26, April 26, April 24, April 24, 1940 1939 1940 1939 Boston 5,834 442 5,603 417 New York 3,082 46,341 47,067 3,913 Philadelphia 5,508 5,204 384 383 Cleveland 6,112 518 447 6,951 Richmond 3,508 3,878 290 251 Atlanta 3,382 238 187 3,013 Chicago 14,081 1,188 1,044 16,019 St. Louis 2,852 3,122 234 213 1,782 156 Minneapolis 2,039 191 Kansas City 266 3,109 3,311 2.33 176 2,487 Dallas 2,691 203 8,092 San Francisco 626 8,701 674 102,183 108,502 Total, 273 reporting centers 7,240 8,517 New York City* 43,137 42,699 3,639 2,831 140 Other leading cities* 4,228 3,832. 56,564 51,407 8,076 13 £ other centers 8,802 650 577 DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER, DURING THE WEEK ENDED APRIL 24, 1940 (In thousands of dollars) DISTRICT NO. 2 - NEW YORK (Cont*d) DISTRICT NO. 1 - BOSTON N. Y. Hartford Conn. 44,026 Elmira 2,843 tt it New Haven 2,770 16,138 Jamestown tt 1! Waterbury 3 ,638,618 6,264- New York 1! Bangor Maine 3,056 Poughkeepsie 3,067 It 1 1 Portland 24,450 6,64l Rochester tt 18,361 Boston Mass* 256,089 Syracuse tt t t Brockton 6,957 3,993 Utica tt Fall River 3,681 tt DISTRICT NO. 3 - PHILADELPHIA Holyoke 2,663 t t Dol • Lowell 20,132 3,130 Wilmington tt J. Lynn 4,250 Camden 9,853 tt tt New Bedford 17,047 3,624 Trenton n Penna* 14,106 Allentown Springfield 5,343 Tt f l 11,631 Altoona 2,517 Worcester tt 3,763 Manchester N . H. 3,393 Chester tt 31,780 Harrisburg 8,117 Providence R. I. tt 2,098 Hazleton 1,957 Burlington 7b. n 2,971 Johnstown t! 5,376 Lancaster DISTRICT NO. 2 - NEW YORK tt Stamford Conn. 1,448 3,847 Lebanon H Montclair N . J. 3,112 Norristown 2,029 tt tt Newark 273,534 68,3511 Philadelphia tt Northern New Jersey 11 : Reading 8,672 tt Scranton Clearing House Assn. 9,154 35,377 tt tt Passaic 5,119 6,617 Wilkes-Barre tt N. Y. Albany 2,266 41,683 Williamsport tt tt York Binghamton 5,110 4,697 ti Buffalo 51,821 ----- ----- ^Centers for which bank debit figures are available back to 1919. Form F, R. 285-a DEBITS BX BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CjENTER, DURING THE WEEK ENDED APRIL 24, 1940 (In thousands of dollars) DISTRICT NO. 4 - CLEVELAND Lexington Ky. Akron Ohio tt Canton n Cincinnati tt Cleveland tt Columbus tt Dayton tt Hamilton « Lima tt Lorain tt Middletown tt Springfield tt Steubenville tt Toledo tt Warren tt Youngstown it Zanesville Butler Pa, tt Erie tt Franklin tt Greensburg tt Homestead tt Oil City tt Pittsburgh W. Va. Wheeling 4,483 16,132 8,830 70,299 127,187 42,200 17,704 2,549 2,885 1,203 2,595 4,255 2,122 28,008 1,832 10,405 1,773 1,957 6,155 619 1,603 806 2,924 154,145 5,708 DISTRICT NO. 5 - RICHMOND Washington D. C. Md. Baltimore it Cumberland tt Hagerstown N. C. Asheville tt Charlotte ti Durham it Greensboro it Raleigh ■ tt Wilmington tt Winston-Salem S. C. Charleston tt Columbia tt Greenville It Spartanburg Va, Danville it Lynchburg tt Newport News tt Norfolk tt Portsmouth it Richmond tt Roanoka 17. Va, Charleston tt Huntington 64,375 81,428 1,740 1,946 2,800 14,586 5,462 4,827 9,234 2,461 8,358 4,716 5,524 4,098 2,599 1,784 3,221 3,193 12,554 1,093 32,070 6,971 11,212 3,772 DISTRICT NO. 6 - ATLANTA Birmingham Ala. tt Dothan tt Mobile tt Montgomery Jaeksonville Fla. tt Miami ti Pensacola tt Tampa 21,094 674 9,364 4,603 20,043 14,288 2,123 8,246 DSSTRICT NO. 6 - ATLANTA (Cont»d) Albany Go,# 1,208 u Atlanta 50,436 n Augusta 4,441 tt Brunswick 698 I! Columbus 3,345 ft Elberton 259 tt Macon 4,003 ft Newnan 447 tt Savannah 6,614 ff Valdosta 921 La# New Orleans 45,963 Hattiesburg Kiss# 1,091 tt Jackson tt Meridian 2,677 I! Vicksburg 1,712 Tenn# Chattanooga 9,465 tt Knoxville 6,940 tt Nashville 17,422 DISTRICT NO, 7 Aurora Bloomington Champaigrc-Urbana Chicago Danville Decatur Elgin Moline Peoria Rockford Springfield Fort Wayne Gary Hammond Indianapolis South Bend Terre Haute Cedar Rapids Clinton Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Mason City Muscatine Sioux City Waterloo Adrian Battle Creek Bay City Detroit Flint Grand Rapids Jackson Kalamazoo Lansing Saginaw Green Bay Manitovjoc Milwaukee Oshkosh ] Sheboygan - CHICAGO 111, tt tt tt tt tt tt ti t! tt tf Ind, tt t» tf tt tt Io\?a tt tt ti tt ft it tf tf Mich. tf tt ft tt tt tt ft tt tt Wis# tf tt tt tt 2,373 2,739 3,091 674,652 2,385 4,233 2,039 1,553 ' 13,700 4,850 5,511 6,990 3,918 1,816 45,621 10,041 5,450 5,756 1,657 5,446 26,069 2,561 2,168 910 8,689 4,797 885 2,748 2,498 227,760 5,834 13,549 3,376 5,088 5,464 5,540 3,186 1,451 56,332 1,888 3,472 Form FR—285~b DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CEE SR, DURING THE WEEK ELIDED APRIL 24, 1940 (In thousands of dollars) DISTRICT NO. 8 - ST. LOUIS Ark. El Dorado n Fort Smith 11 Helena 11 Little Rock ii Pine Bluff 1 1 Texarkana (See also Tex,) East St. Louis & Nat*l 111. Stock Yards 111. Quincy Ind, Evansville Ky, Louisville 11 Owensboro Miss. Greenville Mo. St. Louis 11 Sedalia n Springfield Tenn. Memphis 1,280 2,561 353 8,918 1,400 551 8,642 1,972 8,003 33,237 1,383 1,028 130,900 52.9 3,538 30,136 DISTRICT NO. 9 - MINNEAPOLIS Minn. 11,574 Duluth t i 3.02,019 Minneapolis 11 4l4 Red Wing 1 1 St. Paul 50,323 it 5,472 South St. Paul t i 1,295 Winona 2,358 Mont. Billings t i 1,863 Helena N. D. 309 Dickinson 11 4,503 Fargo tt 1,108 Grand Forks 1 1 Jamestown 435 11 907 Minot S. D. 1,200 Aberdeen ti 4,143 Sioux Falls Wis. 2,147 La Crosse 11 787 Superior DISTRICT NO. 10 - KANSAS CITY Colo, Colorado Springs 2,633 11 36,026 Denver 11 844 Grand Junction 1 1 2,959 Pueblo Kans. Atchison 595 it 3,781 Hutchinson 11 568 Independence 11 Kansas City 3,713 ii 700 Lawrence t t 876 Pittsburg 11 4,381 Topeka it 9,999 Wichita Mo. 2,099 Joplin ti 73,706 Kansas City it 6,164 St, Joseph Neb. 592 Fremont 11 6,168 Lincoln 11 34,707 Omaha 3,712 N. M. Albuquerque Okla.. 6,047 Bartlesville ti 2,908 Enid i t 255 Guthrie DISTRICT NO. 10 - KANSAS CITY (Cont’d) Muskogee Okla. 1,686 Oklahoma City " 23,486 Okmulgee " 636 Tulsa n 3^,250 Casper Wyo, 1,208 Cheyenne 11 1,607 DISTRICT NO. 11 - DALLAS Tucson Ariz. Shreveport La. Roswell N, M. Abilene Tex. Austin " Beaumont ” Corsicana ” Dallas ” El Paso " Fort Worth 11 Galveston 11 Houston 11 Port Arthur " San Antonio " Texarkana " (See also Ark.) Tyler ” Waco " Wichita Falls " 2,638 16,903 821 2,422 3,222 4,242 DISTRICT NO. 12 - SAIT FRANCISCO Phoenix Ariz. 11,892 Bakersfield Calif. 5,264 Berkeley " 5,924 Fresno 11 6,757 Long Beach ” 9,280 Los Angeles " 214,377 Oakland ” 25,631 Pasadena 11 6,276 Sacramento " 28,417 San Bernardino n 2,966 San Diego 11 12,488 San Francisco " 188,104 San Jose " 5,400 Santa Barbara " 3,249 Stockton 11 5,274 Boise Idaho 3,498 Reno TTev. 4,588 Eugene Ore, 1,814 Portland " 35,203 Salem ” 3,750 Ogden Utah 2,905 Salt Lake City M 15,529 Eellingham Wash, 1,582 Everett " 1,892 Seattle " 45,652 Spokane 11 12,157 Tacoma n 9,345 Walla Walla " 1,845 Yakima " 2,759 Revised figures for week ended April 17, 1940 j Stockton, Calif*, 4,617, 2,905 9,711 909 1,981 6,875 6,554 667 58,097 6,678 18,651 4,960 54,913