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Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
May 5, 1941

Form F, R* 285
For immediate release

BANK DEBITS— DEBITS TO DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS, EXCEPT INTERBANK ACCOUNTS
Bank debits as reported by banks in leading centers for the week ended April30
aggregated $9,922,000,000. Total debits during the 13 weeks ended April 30
amounted to §125,864,000,000, or 15 per cent above the total reported for the
corresponding period a year ago. At banks in New York City there was an increase
of 10 per cent compared with the corresponding period a year ago, and at the other
reporting centers there was an increase of 19 per cent.

SUMMARY BY FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS
Federal
Reserve
District
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Boston
New 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

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Week ended
April 30,
May 1,
1940
1941
54-1
4,054
628
696
36?
303
1,488
295
229
281
•232
808
9,922
3,691
5,4-45
786

4-84
3,834
487
560
306
255
1,315
252
228
259
205
,
700
8,885
3,489
4,697
698

13 weeks ended
April 30 ,
May 1,
1940
1941
7,079
52,087
6,866
8,770
4,838
4,100
19,163
3,786
2,189
3,709
3,128
10Pl49__
125,864
47,610
67,848
10,406

.

5,862
47,397
5,561
6,971
3,892
3,395
16,087
3,136
2,115
3,340
2,703
-8,772
109,232
43,439
56,918
8,874

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DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER, DURING THE WEEK ENDED APRIL 30,1941
(In thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT NO. 2 - NEW YORK (Cont«d)
DISTRICT NO. 1 - BOSTON
N. Y.
Elmira
Conn.
Hartford
64,762
3,993
ti
1
1
4,146
New Haven
20,245 Jamestown
i
t
t
i
3,690,652
Waterbury
8,739 New York
ti
Poughkeepsie
Maine
3,785
Bangor
3,735
it
ti
28,467
Portland
9,479 Rochester
it
23,583
Syracuse
Mass,
322,586
Boston
11
t
t
7,096
Utica
Brockton
4,255
ti
4,970
Fall River
it
DISTRICT NO. 3 - PHILADELPHIA
Holyoke
3,073
ti
Del.
29,039
3,760 Wilmington
Lowell
ti
N. J,
14,231
5,2.84 Camden
Lynn
it
tt
Trenton
16,203
5,047
New Bedford
1
1
6,656
Penna.
Allentown
18,301
Springfield
tt
11
2,657
16,020
Altoona
Worcester
n
3,909
4,816
Chester
Manchester
N. H.
it
10,158
Providence
42,336 Harrisburg
R. I.
1
1
2,411
3,315 Hazleton
Vt,
Burlington
tt
Johnstown
4,531
it
6,657
Lancaster
DISTRICT NO. 2 - NEW YORK
ti
1,972
4,978
Lebanon
Conn,
Stamford
ti
2,805
Norristown
3,309
N. J.
Montclair
it
t
i
489,814
85,532 Philadelphia
Newark
tt
10,480
Reading
Northern New Jersey
t
i
9,819
Scranton
38,157
Clearing House Assn.
it
tt
5,863
9,223. Wilkes-Barre
Passaic
ti
3,586
Williamsport
N. Y.
76,179
Albany
i
t
t
t
7,003
Binghamton
5,487 York
tt
Buffalo
69,524
*Centers for which bank debits figures are available back to 1919.



Form F. P.. 285-a
DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER, DURING THE WEEK ENDED APRIL 30, 194-1
(in thousands of dollars)
DISTRICT HO. 4 - CLEVELAND
DISTRICT NO. 6 - ATLANTA (Cont*d)
Lexington
Ga,
Ky.
Albany
4,526
1,465
tt
Akron
Ohio
Atlanta
6o ,887
23,315
it
tt
Canton
Augusta
5,661
12,584
t
t
i
t
Cincinnati
Brunswick
811
89,867
it
nCleveland
Columbus
177,320
4,768
n
n
Elberton
Columbus
52,976
.288
i
t
i
t
Dayton
Macon
■5,298
20,695
it
tt
Hamilton
Newnan
506
3 >403
ti
i
t
Savannah
Lima
7,832
4,209
tt
it
Lorain
Valdosta
1,615
923
ii
La.
Middletown.
New Orleans
3,221
59,300
ti
Hattiesburg
Miss.
Springfield
4,898
2,117
it
ti
2,596
Jackson
6,602
Steubenville
tt
ti
Toledo
Meridian
35,963
3,385
tt
it
1,760
Vicksburg
Warren
3,624
it
17,06l
Tenn,
Youngstown
10,950
Chattanooga
ti
it
Knoxville
Zanesville
7,587
2,223
it
Butler
3,057
Nashville
Pa.
24,705
it
8,727
Erie
it
930
DISTRICT NO. 7 - CHICAGO
Franklin
tt
1,922
Greensburg
111 .
3,747
Aurora
n
it
820
Bloomington
Homestead
3,123
ti
it
2,230
Champaign-Urbana
3,562
Oil City
ti
tt
211,321
Pittsburgh
Chicago
756,574
ti
7,394
Danville
Wheeling
2,521
W.Va.
it
Decatur
4,927
ti
1,916
DISTRICT HO. 5 - RICHMOND
Elgin
tt
Washington
Moline
D. C.
2,276
71,139
it
Baltimore
Md.
Peoria
109,731
16,943
tt
tt
Cumberland
Rockford
1,994
8,459
t
i
i
t
Springfield
Hagerstown
6,032
2,529
Fort Wayne
Ind.
Asheville
9,856
N. C*
3,115
it
it
Gary
Charlotte
20 ,627
4,514
ii
n
Hammond
Durham
7,477
2,792
ii
it
Greensboro
Indianapolis
5,880
6 5 ,646
tt
ti
Raleigh
South Bend
13,201
11,515
ii
it
Terre Haute
Wilsiington
4,235
6,923
tl
Iowa
Winston-Salem
Cedar Rapids
7,070
10,4-05
it
Charleston
Clinton
s. c.
5,893
1,707
It
tt
Columbia
Davenport
5,863
9,806
tt
tl
29,972
5,117
Des Moines
Greenville
ti
II
2,716
3,421
Spartanburg
Dubuque
it
Danville
Va.
Mason City
2,569
2,027
n
tt
OO/
Lynchburg
3,429
Muscatine
ii
it
9,901
Newport Hews
Sioux City
3,489
ii
5,522
Norfolk
Waterloo
16 , 408
i
t
Portsmouth
Mich.
Adrian
1,045
1,472
tt
tt
3,737
Richmond
Battle Creek
40,795
t
l
t
i
3,194
Roanoke
Bay City
6 5933
it
378?100
Charleston
Detroit
W. Va.
13,293
ti
tt
4,668
8,225
Huntington
Flint
ii
15,691
Grand Rapids
tt
DISTRICT HO. 6. - ATLANTA
Jackson
4,779
i
t
Birmingham
6,481
26,585
Kalamazoo
Ala.
ti
it
Dothan
Lansing
949
6,945
it
ti
Mobile
Saginaw
12,4-97
6,4-29
tt
Montgomery
Wis.
Green Bay
7,141
3,885
it
Jacksonville
Fla,
Manitowoc
23,532
1,89.1
it
ti
Miami
Milwaukee
63,199
14.913
it
tt
Pensacola
Oshkosh
2,610
2,4-97
t
t
tt
Tanpa
Sheboygan
9,861
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Fora F. P., 2S5-b
DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER. DURING THE WEEK ENDED APRIL 30, 1941
(in thousands 3f dollars)
DISTRICT NO. 10 - KANSAS CITY (Cont *d)
DISTRICT IP. 8 - ST. LOUIS
Okla,
2,044
Muskogee
Ark.
El Dorado
1,523
t
t
t
t
23,599
Oklahoma City
Fort Smith
2,971
tt
it
664
Okmulgee
Helena
318
it
n
29,194
Little Rock
Tulsa
11,272
it
1,203
Wyo.
Casper
Pine Bluff
1,634
it
tt
1,783
Cheyenne
Texarkana
822
(See also Tex.)
DISTRICT UO. 11 - DALLAS
East St. Louis & Nat’1
11,116
Ariz.
Tucson
Stock Yards
111.
3,602
it
Shreveport
La.
2,159
Quincy
10,877
N. M.
9,254
Roswell
Evansville
Ind.
1,077
Tex,
50,019
Abilene
Louisville
Ky.
2,670
11
it
1,248
Austin
Owensboro
6,676
it
Beaumont
Greenville
933
Miss.
6,457
11
159,800
Corsicana
Mo.
St. Louis
687
it
it
577
Dallas
Sedalia
70,131
it
it
4,115
El Paso
8,686
Springfield
it
36,952
Fort Worth
Tenn,
21,826
Memphis
ti
Galveston
6,050
11
Houston
DISTRICT NO. 9 - MINNEAPOLIS
62,471
11
Port Arthur
Duluth
Minn.
1,805
16,546
ti
n
San Antonio
17,488
Minneapolis
124,670
ti
tt
Texarkana
Red Wing
471
t
i
(See also Aric.)
St. Paul
984
57,935
11
ti
Tyler
South St. Paul
3,026
6,691
tt
tt
Waco
Winona
3,229
1,523
1
1
Wichita Falls
Mont,
Billings
4,490
2,404
ti
Helena
1,860
DISTRICT NO., 12 - SAN FRANCISCO
Dickinson
N. D.
323
it
Ariz,
12,368
Phoenix
Fargo
4,836
ti
Calif,
Bakersfield
Grand Forks
4,705
1,077
tt
ti
Berkeley
Jsur.estotm
6,875
383
11
it
Fresno
Minot
8,957
1,089
it
Long Beach
S. D.
Aberdeen
10,852
1,259
11
it
Los Angeles
Sioux Falls
240,143
4,306
t
i
Oakland
La Crosse
Wis,
29,651
2,129
11
it
Superior
Pasadena
6,414
1,177
11
Sacramento
53,852
11
San Bernardino
DISTRICT NO., 10 - KANSAS CITY
3,231
ti
San Diego
Colorado Springs
Colo.
19,677
3,010
ti
tt
Denver
San Francisco
224,673
39,509
tt
i
t
San Jose
Grand Junction
6,019
710
ti
ii
Santa Barbara
Pueblo
2,884
3,757
11
Atchison
Stockton
5,239
Kans.
685
ii
Idaho
Boise
4,877
Hutchinson
2,408
u
Nev.
Independence
Reno
2,859
64L
tt
Ore,
Kansas City
Eugene
2,413
4,365
11
n
42,970
Portland
Lawrence
914
11
i
t
Pittsburgh
Salem
4,324
869
tt
Utah
Ogden
4,514
Topeka
4,352
11
ti
Wichita
Salt Lake City
15,439
12,457
Wash,
Joplin
Mo.
Bellingham
2,574
2,104
tt
1
1
Everett
2,559
Kansas City
30,143
11
ti
61,763
St. Joseph
Seattle
6,721
11
12,571
Fremont
Neb.
Spokane
807
1
1
ti
Lincoln
Tacoma
11,073
6,969
11
tt
1,588
Omaha
Walla Walla
37,307
1
1
Albuquerque
Yakima
N. M,
2,723
4,590
Bartlesville
Okla.
6,711
tt
Enid
2,851
tt
Guthrie
327