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Form F. R. 285

STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS

Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
August 4, 1941

For immediate release

BANK DEBITS— DEBITS TQ DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS, EXCEPT INTERBANK ACCOUNTS
Bank debits as reported by banks in leading centers for the week ended
July 30 aggregated $9,564,000,000. Total debits during the, 13 weeks ended July 30
amounted to $132 ,653 ,000,000, or 24 per cent above the total reported for the cor­
responding period a year ago. At banks in New York City there was an increase of
21 per cent compared with the corresponding period a year ago, and at the other
reporting centers there was an increase of 27 per cent.

SUUUARY BY FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS
Federal
Reserve
District

Week ended
July 31,
July 30,
1940
1941

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St, Louis
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San, Francisco
Total, 274 reporting centers
Hew York City*
140 Other leading centers*
133 Other centers

415
3,039
379
542
299
234
1,134
220
IfcL
243
170
645
7,461

535
3,723

563
718
384
311
1,511
298
179
323
235
783
9,564
3,380
5,385
799

2,763
_

4,060
618

13 weeks ended
July 30, July 31 ,
1940
1941
7,330
54,068
7,541
9,535
5,200
4,245
19,922
4,374
2,423
4,148
3,315
10,554

5,850
44,824
5,665
7,349
4,055
3,214
15,592
3,350
2,172
3,457
2,625
8^584

132,653
49,059
72,333
11,261

106,735
40,676
56,966
9,094

DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER, DURING THE WEEK ENDED JULY 30, 1941
(in thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT NO, 1 - BOSTON
Hartford
Conn,
it
New Haven
IT
TJaterbury
Maine
Bangor
n
Portland
Boston
Mass*
tt
Brockton
«
Fall River
n
Holyoke
it
Lowell
it
Lynn
tt
New Bedford
it
Springfield
11
Worcester
Manchester
N. H*
Providence
R. I*
Vt.
Burlington
DISTRICT NO. 2 -- NETT YORK
Stanford
Conn,
Montclair
N. J,
it
Newark
Northern New Jersey
Clearing House Assn,
ti
Passaic
Albany
N. Y.
tt
Binghamton
tt
Buffalo

56,832
22,505
8,564
3,833
10,653
322,370
4,215
5,170
3,150
3,466
4,723
5,094
16,874
16,475
4,471
43,816
3,154

5,679
3,011
84,940
40,740
9,409
52,813
5,847
67,544

DISTRICT NO. 2 - NEW YORK (Cont’d)
N. Y.
Elnira
4,134
ti
Jamestown
3,608
11
3,379,666
New York
tt
Poughkeepsie
3,601
11
Rochester
30,536
ti
Syracuse
22,003
11
Utica
9,390
DISTRICT NO. ? - PHILADELPHIA
Del.
Wilmington
27,259
13,354
Camden
N, J*
Trenton
20,531
penna.
7,641
Allentown
ti
Altoona
2,994
tt
4,422
Chester
it
Harrisburg
10,435
1
1
Hazleton
2,451
ti
4,141
Johnstown
11
Lancaster
6,353
1
1
1,650
Lebanon
11
2,680
Norristo\m
420,959
Philadelphia
11
11,927
Reading
9,665
Scranton
11
6,118
Wilkes-Barre
it
3,360
Williamsport
11
6,772
York

*Centers for which bank debits Jfigures are available back to 1919.




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DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER , DURING THE WEEK
(in thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT NO. 6
DISTRICT NO. 4 - CLEVELAND
Albany
Lexington
Ky.
-4,268
Atlanta
Akron
Ohio
21,602
tt
Canton
Augusta
11,864
tt
Brunswick
Cincinnati
93,784
n
Cleveland
Colunbus
183,439
tt
Colunbus
Elberton
50,602
tt
Macon
Dayton
21,068
tt
Hamilton
Newnan
3,540
tt
Lina
Savannah
4,143
tt
Valdosta
Lorain
1,373
tt
Middletown
New Orleans
3,368
tt
Hattiesburg
Springfield
5,159
tt
Steubenville
Jackson
3,100
tt
Meridian
Toledo
37,947
it
Warren
Vicksburg
3,929
tt
Chattanooga
Youngstown
14,802
tt
Zanesville
Knoxville
2,352
Nashville
Butler
Pa.
2,720
tt
Erie
8,611
tt
DISTPvICT NO. 7
Franklin
636
tt
Greensburg
Aurora
2,916
tt
Homestead
Bloomington
969
tt
ChampaignHUrb ana
Oil City
2,634
tt
Pittsburgh
Chicago
225,853
Wheeling
Danville
W. Va.
7,140
Decatur
DISTRICT NO. 5 - RICHMOND
Elgin
Washington
Moline
D. C.
71,307
Baltimore
Peoria
Md.
123,030
tt
Cumberland
Rockford
2,218
tt
Hagerstown
Springfield
2,435
Asheville
Fort Wayne
N. C.
3,230
tt
Gary
Charlotte
18,605
tt
Durham
Hammond
7,580
tt
Greensboro
Indianapolis
4,993
tt
Raleigh
South
Bend
16,652
tt
Terre Haute
Wilmington
4,226
tt
Winstort-Salem
Cedar Rapids;
10,498
Charleston
5,666
S. c.
Clinton
tt
Columbia
Davenport
7,599
It
Greenville
Des Moines
5,413
It
Spartanburg
Dubuque
3,497
Danville
2,278
Va.
Maeon City
tt
Lynchburg
Muscatine
3,795
tt
Newport Nevra
Sioux City
3,153
tt
Norfolk
Waterloo
17,057
ti
Portsmouth
Adrian
1,562
tt
Richmond
Battle Creek
41,880
tt
Roanoke
Bay City
6,583
Charleston
Detroit
TT.Va.
16,045
tt
Huntington
Flint
'
4,721
Grand Rapids
Jackson
DISTRICT NO. 6 - ATLANTA
Birmingham
Ala.
Kalamazoo
28,418
tt
Dothan
Lansing
728
ti
Mobile
Saginaw
12,654
tt
Montgomery
Green Bay
5,624
Jacksonville
Fla.
Manitowoc
22,953
tt
Miami
Milwaukee
10,970
it
Pensacola
Oshkosh
2,677
ti
Tampa
Sheboygan
7,860



E1©ED JULY 30, 1941
- ATLANTA (Cont*d)
Ga.
1,470
tt
63,187
tt
5,714
tt
701
it
4,878
tt
274
tt
4,926
tt
538
tt
7,772
tt
877
La.
70,605
2,086
Miss.
tt
7,453
tt
3,251
tt
1,437
Tenn.
11,970
tt
7,654
tt
24,530
- CHICAGO
111.
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
ti
tt
tt
tt
Ind.
tt
it
tt
it
tt
Iowa
it
it
tt
ti
it
tt
tt
tt
Mich.
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
ti
it
ti
Wis.
tt
it
ti
ti

2,749
2,944
3,256
784,381
2,403
5,440
1,971
1,911
16,714
9,047
5,898
8,513
5,608
2,560
67,169
11,364

6,389
6,184
1,574
5,371
21,479
2,494
2,484
919
12,283
4,747
1,134
3,641
2,926
378,274
7,558
15,613
4,716
6,761
7,174
6,964
4,073
1,797
67,483
2,49-4
4,747




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Form F, P.. 285-b
DEBITS BY BANKS III EACH REPORTING CENTER, DIKING THE WEEK ENDED JULY 30. 1941
(In thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT IIP. IQ - KANSAS CITY (Cont»d)
DISTRICT NO. 8 - ST. LOUIS
1,978
Okla.
Muskogee
Ark.
El Dorado
1,323
it
23,621
n
Oklahoma
City
3,078
Fort Smith
ti
621
ti
Okmulgee
Helena
315
it
39,069
i
t
Tulsa
9.624
Little Rock
Wyo.
1,454
ti
1,655 |Casper
Pine Bluff
t
t
Cheyenne
2.051
Texarkana
769
(See also Tex.)
DISTRICT NO. 11 - DALLAS
East St. Louis & llat’l
Ariz.
2,460
Tucson
13,084
111.
Stock Yards
La.
t
t
Shreveport
10,911
2,085
Quincy
N. M.
829
Roswell
Ind.
Evansville
9.625
Tex.
2,365
Abilene
Ky.
Louisville
58,249
n
ti
7,474
Austin
1,297
Owensboro
it
5,972
Beaumont
1,044
Miss.
Greenville
tt
732
Corsicana
Mo.*.
1,54,600
St. Louis
tt
72,060
t
t
Dallas
474
Sedalia
tt
ti
7,879
El Paso
4,283
Springfield
tt
22,760
Fort Worth
Tenn.
36,779
Memphis
ti
6,083
Galveston
ti
63,492
Houston
DISTRICT HO. 9 - MINNEAPOLIS
tt
1,9a
Port Arthur
13,191
Minn.
Duluth
tt
18,095
it
San Antonio
83,164
Minneapolis
tt
t
i
Texarkana
506
Red Wing
ti
1,349
it
(See also Ark.)
47,565
St. Paul
tt
2,904
tt
Tyler
8,727
South St. Paul
tt
3,210
Waco
1,332
*' .
Winona
tt
4,603
Wichita Falls
2,829
L:ont,
Billings
t
t
2,276
Helena
DISTRICT NO. 12 - SAN FRANCISCO
394
N. D.
Dickinson
10,£40
Ayiz,
t
i
Phoenix
5,588
Fargo
4,481 <
Calif.
i
t
Bakersfield
1,254
Grand Forks
tt
6,244
t
t
Berkeley
434
Jamestown
n
8,775
t
t
Fresno
1,312
Minot
t
t
12,580
Long
Beach
1,402
S. D.
Aberdeen
tt
235,619
tt .
Los Angeles
5,574
Sioux Falls
1
1
29,761
Oakland
Wis.
2,233
La Crosse
tt
6,539
t
t
Pasadena
1,498
Superior
11
53,982
Sacramento
ti
2,977
San Bernardino
DISTRICT NO. 10 - KANSAS CITY
it
19,337
San
Diego
4,013
Colorado Springs
Colo.
ti
200,729
ti
San Francisco
46,445
Denver
tt
6,731
t
t
San
Jose
745
Grand Junction
ti
2,717
t
t
Santa
Barbara
3,455
Pueblo
1
1
5,085
Stockton
856
Kans.
Atchison
Idaho
5,513
tt
Boise
4,056
Hutchinson
3,510
Nev.
t
i
Reno
721
Independence
2,590
Ore.
t
t
Eugene
4,169
Kansas City
1
1
44,143
!
!
Portland
872
Lawrence
n
4,604
It
Salem
907
Pittsburg
4,303
Utah
1
!
Ogden
4,751
Topeka
ti
15,166
I
t
Salt
Lake
City
16,110
Wichita
2,104
Wash.
Bellingham
2,557
Joplin'
tt
2,552
i
t
Everett
90,168
Kansas City
tt
62,774
t
t
Seattle
7,406
St. Joseph
tt
12,190
Spokane
671
Neb.
Fremont
ti
11,952
t
i
Tacoma
6,266
Lincoln
tt
2,300
tt
Walla Walla
44,480
Omaha
3,103
Yakima
4,974
N. M.
Albuquerque
5,926
Okla.
Bartlesville
tt
4,107
Enid
tt
322
Guthrio