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Forn F. R. 285

STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS

For immediate release

BANK DEBITS

Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve Systen
March 17, 1943-

Debits to deposit accounts -(except interbank accounts), as reported by banks
in leading cities for the week ended March 12, aggregated $8,914,000,000* Total
debits during the 13 weeks ended March 12 amounted to $125,113,000,000, or 11
percent above the total reported for the corresponding period a year ago. At banks
in New York City there was an increase of 8 percent compared with the corresponding
period a year ago, and at the other reporting centers there was an increr.se of
14 percent.
SUMMARY BY FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS
Week ended
March 12,
March 13,
1940
1941

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

13 weeks cmded
March 13,
March 12,
194Q
1941

501
3,844
452
594
341
305
1,285
262
150
249
222
710

484
3,859
399
497
290
258
1,129
227
150
242
201
648

7,107
52,152
6,666
9,025
4,84S
4,076
18,371
3,776
2,077
3,708
3,175
..10,133

6,170
48,235
5,975
7,377
4,007
3,529
16,458
3,240
2,050
3,440
2,834
S,904

8,914
3,457
4,706
751

8,383
3,581
4,l4l
660

125,113
47,664
67,075
10,373

112,219
44,179
58,950
' 9,090

DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER., DURING THE WEEK ENDED MARCH 12, 1941
(in thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT NO. 2 - HEW YORK (Conttd)
DISTRICT HO. 1 - BOSTOH
H. Y.
Elmira
Hartford
Conn.
3,305
59,124
n
ii
Jamestown
New Haven
3,104
17,995
ti
ti
Waterbury
Hew York
3,457,144
8,090
ii
Poughkeepsie
Bangor
Maine
3,220
3,276
it
ii
Rochester
Portland
28,829
8,297
n
Syracuse
Boston
Mass.
19,510
308,535
ii
n
Brockton
Utica
7,284
3,158
tt
Fall River
4,576
ii
DISTRICT HO. 3 - PHILADELPHIA
Holyoke
3,038
n
Del.
Wilmington
2.6,213
Lowell
3,303
ti
H.
J.
Camden
Lynn
15,251
4,530
11
ii
Trenton
Hew Bedford
16,182
4,649
ti
Penna.
Allentown
Springfield
6,307
15,085
it
ti
Worcester
Altoona
2,738
14,662
ii
Chester
Manchester
3,769
H.H.
3,962
n
Harrisburg
Providence
9,599
35,998
R. I.
n
Hazleton
Vt.
2,201
Burlington
2,473
n
Johnstown
3,217
ti
5,626
Lancaster
DISTRICT NO. 2 - NEW YORK
it
Lebanon
1,754
Stanford
Conn.
4,881
it
2,661
Horristown
Montclair
N. J.
3,018
it
ii
324,083
Philadelphia
Newark
79,719
tt
8,674
Horthern Hew Jersey
Reading
ii
Scranton
10,010
Clearing House Assn.
34,262
it
n
Wilkes-Barre
4,921
Passaic
8,037
ii
Williamsport
2,802
Albany
N. Y.
129,776
it
n
York
Binghamton
5,899
4,539
n
Buffalo
57,649
*Centers for which bank debit figures are available to 1919.



Form F, R. 285-a
DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER, DURING THE WEEK ENDED MAPCH 12, 1941
(in thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT NO. 4 - CLEVELAND
Lexington
Ky.
4,748
Ohio
Akron
17,490
Canton
10,495
Cincinnati
83,4.36
Cleveland
147,351
Columbus
44,933
Dayton
19,002
Hamilton
2,946
Lima
4,117
Lorain
1,283
Middletown
3,025
Springfield
4,584
Steubenville
2,398
Toledo
29,842
Warren
3,491
Youngstown
12,325
Zanesville
2,169
Butler
Pa.
2,999
Erie
7,880
Franklin
644
Greensburg
1,562
Homestead
787
Oil City
1,892
Pittsburgh
178,409
Va,
Wheeling
5,962

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DISTRICT NO. 5 - RICHMOND
D. C.
Washington
Md.
Baltimore
it
Cumberland
ti
Hagerstown
Asheville
tt
Charlotte
n
Durham
ti
Greensboro
n
Raleigh
tt
Wilmington
ti
Winston-Salem
s. c.
Charleston
It
Columbia
It
Greenville
II
Spartanburg
Va.
Danville
tt
Lynchburg
tt
Nevrport News
tt
Norfolk
ti
Portsmouth
11
Richmond
tt
Roanoke
W.Va.
Charleston
tt
Huntington
DISTRICT NO. 6 - ATLAN
Ala.
Birmingham
tt
Dothan
it
Mobile
11
Montgomery
Jacksonville
Flo*
tt
Miami
11
Pensacola
11
Tampa




74,481
94,004
1,921
2,407
3,739
20,345
7,389
5,348
12,313
3,399
9,671
5,248
7,378
5,502
4,468
2,016
3,351
3,484
14,452
1,377
36,147
6,617
11,446
4,406

25,792
SOS
12,240
5,909
25,897
19,052
2,569
8,288

DISTRICT
Albany
Atlanta
Augusta
Brunswick
Columbus
Elberton
Macon
N ew nan

Savannah
Valdosta
New Orleans
Hattiesburg
Jackson
Meridian
Vicksburg
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Nashville

NO.

6 1. ATLANTA
Ga,
it
it

11
11
it
ti
ti

11
ti

Lti.
Miss,
ti
tt
tt

Tenn.
it

11

DISTRICT NO. 7 - CHICAGO
111,
Aurora
tt
Bloomington
11
Champaignr-Urbana
tt
Chicago
tt
Danville
it
Decatur
tt
Elgin
11
Moline
it
Peoria
11
Rockford
it
Springfield
Ind.
Fort Wayne
ti
Gary
11
Hammond
ti
Indianapolis
ti
South. Bend
ti
Terre Haute
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
it
Clinton
tt
Davenport
it
Des Moines
11
Dubuque
11
Mason City
11
Muscatine
11
Sioux City
ti
Waterloo
Mich.
Battle Creek
it
Adrian
11
Bay City
it
Detroit
it
Flint
1
1
Grand Rapids
it
J ackson
ti
Kalamazoo
tt
Lansing
it
Saginaw
Wis.
Green Bay
11
Manitowoc
tt
Milwaukee
ti
Oshkosh
11
Sheboygan

1,574
58,989
5,474
755
5,838
311
5,972
531
7,450
1,126
57,713
2,597
7,025
3,479
2,021
13,499
8,169
21,468
2,710
3,278
3,952
693?680
2,403
4,810
1,869
2,434
15,353
7,517
6,656
8,492.
5,151
2,584
57,179
10,957
5,876
7.508
1,522
5,220
26,210
2,355
2,528
801
8,959
4,791
3.508
1,133
2,874
264,344
7,451
14,963
4,114
5,685
6,547
5,745
3,549
1,695
62,154
2,183
4,429

Form F. R, 285-b
DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER
(in thousands of dollars)
KANSAS CITY (Cont'd)
DISTRICT HO. 10
DISTRICT NO. 8 - ST. LOUIS
Okla,
1,464
Muskogee
1,301
Ark,
El Dorado
it
t
t
19,751
Oklahoma
City
2,874
Fort Smith
ti
498
ii
Okmulgee
402
Helena
t
i
22,986
t
t
Tulsa
11,795
Little Rock
w
Wyo,
1,40-4
Casper
1,817
Pine Bluff
ti
i
t
Cheyenne
2,330
Texarkana
782
(See also Tex.)
East St, Louis & Nat’l
Ariz.
3,391
Tucson
9,835
Stock Yards
111.
La,
t
r
Shreveport
10,499
2,118
Quincy
N. M.
1,100
Ros'well
9,201
Ind,
Evansville
3,618
Tex.
Abilene
44,083
Ky.
Louisville
tt
i
t
8,206
Austin
Owensboro
1,393
ti
Beaumont
6,336
1,287
Greenville
Miss.
tt
829
Corsicana
Mo.
132,500
St. Louis
tt
t
t
Dallas
66,043
Sedalia
473
tt
tt
11,123
El Paso
3,699
Springfield
ti
18,801
Fort Worth
Tenn,
38,659
Hempliis
n
5,660
Galveston
i
t
Houston
54,279
DISTRICT NO. 9 - MINNEAPOLIS
tt
2,591
Minn,
Duluth
Sf440 Port Arthur
tt
18,263
n
Minneapolis
73,178 San Antonio
tt
tt
Red Wing
473 Texarkana
tt
1,187
(See also Ark.)
35,841
St, Paul
tt
tt
2,631
South St. Paul
6,460 Tyler
tt
tt
3,825
1,407 Waco
Winona
tt
3,810
Mont.
Billings
2,853 Wichita Falls
tt
4,000
Helena
DISTRICT NO. 12 - SAN FRANCISCO
N, D,
Dickinson
403
Ariz.
12,130
tt
4,714 Phoenix
Fargo
Calif.
tt
3,893
1,218 Bakersfield
Grand Forks
tt
6,670
tt
404 Berkeley
Jamestown
tt
7,520
it
987 Fresno
Minot
t
t
9,540
1,157 Long Beach
S. D.
Aberdeen
t
t
213,076
tt
4,807 Los Angeles
Sioux Falls
tt
27,225
2,181 Oakland
Wis,
La Crosse
tt
7,058
t
t
Pasadena
986
Superior
tt
31,342
Sacramento
tt
3,089
San Bernardino
DISTRICT NO. 10 - KANSAS CITY
ti
18,961
Colo,
3,754 San Diego
Colorado Springs
it
tt
186,859
38,477 San Francisco
Denver
t
t
n
5,685
835 San Jose
Grand Junction
it
2,482
tt
3,098 Santa Barbara
Pueblo
tt
4,659
683 Stockton
Kans.
Atchison
Idaho
t
t
3,504
Boise
Hutchinson
2,373
Nev.
tt
3,117
630 Reno
Independence
n
Ore,
2,673
3,827 Eugene
Kansas City
tt
45,886
tt
816 Portland
Lawrence
tt
tt
4,530
Pittsburg
904 Salem
Utah
t
t
4,709
Ogden
3,770
Topeka
tt
t
t
15,612
Salt
Lake
City
Wichita
12,424
Wash.
1,859
Mo.
Joplin
2,195 Bellingham
tt
2,442
t
i
Everett
69,955
Kansas City
tt
t
t
56,889
Seattle
6,446
- St. Joseph
ti
12,420
Neb.
Fremont
771 Spokane
tt
11,416
t
t
Tacoma
6,270
Lincoln
tt
1,740
t
t
Walla
Walla
Omaha
31,433
tt
2,816
Yakima
4,510
Albuquerque
N. M.
5,006
Okla,
Bartlesville
tt
1,723
Enid
t
t
Guthrie
311



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