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Forn F. P.. 286

STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS

For immediate release

Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
September 9, 194-1

BANK DEBITS— DEBITS TO DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS, EXCEPT INTERBANK ACCOUNTS
(Llonthly figures for each reporting center are derived from reports covering
weeks ending on Wednesdays. The figures for a week that begins in one month and
ends in another are prorated to the respective months on the basis of the number of
business days of the week that are in each month.)
SUMMARY BY FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS
Federal Reserve
District

August
1941

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

2,31+3
16,51+3
2,1+1+9
3,275
1,726
1,1+25
6,655
1,303
881
l,!(l+7
1,108
3.691+
1+2,81+7
15,079
2l+,023
3,71+5

August
1940
1,865
12,803
1,798
2,445
1,297
1,057
5,009
990
720
1,137
828
2,896
32,844
11,604
18,314
2,926

3 months ended —
August 1941 August 1940
7,318
53,1+93
7,632
9,810
5,287
1+,270

20,377
l+,238
2,528
1+.316
3,31+0
10,987
133,597
1+8,61+8
73,537
11,1+12

5,797
42,396
5,572
7,434
4,052
3,161
15,404
3,184
2,101
3,474
2,556
8,678
103,808
38 ,32.6
56,407
9,075

DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER
—

,—

---------------------------------

----------

--------------------------------------

August
1941
DISTRICT NO. 1 - BOSTON
Hartford*
Conn,
11
New Haven*
11
Waterbury*
Bangor*
Maine
ti
Portland
Boston*
Mass,
it
Brockton
11
Fall River*
ti
Holyoke*
tt
Lowell*
it
Lynn
it
New Bedford*
it
Springfield
ti
Worcester*
Manchester
N* xi.
Providence*
R. I,
Vt.
Burlington

265,017
92,771+
39,817
18,307
1+8 ,9]+!+
1,380,1+60
20,071
23,199
15,11+2

16,198
23,279
2l+,67I+

77,206
72,722

21,173
189,175
13,955

August
1940
202,212
71,734
29,£51
15,738
35,184
1,121,831
16,084
18,367
11,687
13,836
17,960
17,651
59,661
53,804
16,782
150,956
11,287

3 months ended —
August 194-11August 1940
808,267
295,121

119,320
56,561

138,986
1+,379,1+39
61,939

69,893
1+5,1+69
U9,332
69,828
70,556
21+0,381+
225,213
63,990
581,372
1+2,819

617,029
226,304
89,348
47,739
103,183
3,534,234
47,679
53,656
35,965
41,559
54,511
52,699
192,740
167,056
51,877
446,778
34,649

*The 141 centers, including New York City, for which bank debit figures aro
available back to 1919, are designated by an asterisk.




Form F. R. 286-a
DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER
_________ (in thousands of dollars)
August
3 months ended —
August
August
1941[August 1940
1940
194-1
DISTRICT NO. 2 - NEW YORK
Stamford
Conn.
19,080
64,255
23,929
77,367
Montclair
42,758
N. J.
li+,689
12,911
46,608
ii
Newark
1,005,477
298,587
359,190
1,194,663
Northern New Jersey
Clearing House Association
148,413
570,238
460,173
179,05U
Passaic*
N. J.
91,951
30,215
1+3,409
132,474
Albany*
N. Y.
186,677
810,159
182,601+
797,399
65,052
Binghamton*
22,050
24, 652
74,878
690,4-56
Buffalo*
215,396
297,239
904,517
Elmira
41,431
13,319
56,426
18,051+
Jamestown
41,405
13,594
17 ,l+0i+
52,628
New York*
11,604,447 48A 8 ,1+76 38 ,326,197
15,079,007
43,918
Poughkeepsie
14,308
17,71+1+
54,41+9
360,086
Rochester*
112,936
144,177
41+7,559
82,461
Syracuse*
259,109
103,088
316,650
28,616
Utica
93,515
38,621
119,054
DISTRICT NO. 3 - PHILADELPHIA
98,766
337,477
Wilmington*
Del.
428,030
125,505
147,,201
Camden
67,192
N. J.
51,312
191,013
it
103,526
Trenton*
89,710
302,678
254,453
79,266
Allentown
Penna.
101,548
27,374
34,349
11
33,276
Altoona*
11,852
12,749
39,165
Chester*
44,514
60,496
14,279
20,761
Harrisburg
125,034
44,271
48,290
143,863
36,568
Hazleton
10,121
30,243
12,741
51,696
64,051
Johnstown
21,821
17,787
Lancaster*
73,181
23,204
89,454
28,841
26,352
Lebanon
21,935
7,411
9,004
31,152
10,366
Norristown
40,528
13,207
3,913,677
5,572,842
Philadelphia*
1,248,964
1,773,474
116,628
38,608
Reading
157,664
53,-471
133,686
151,816
Scranton*
48,600
44,472
Wilke s-Barre*
23,811
71,123
27,215
82,319
Willi amsport*
11,420
34,655
16,271
1+7,134
96,780
York*
23,864
72,483
31,691
DISTRICT NO. 4 - CLEVELAND
Lexington*
Ky.
Ohio
Akron*
Canton
Cincinnati
Cleveland*
Columbus*
Dayton*
Hamilton
Lima
Lorain
Middletown
Springfield*
Steubenville
Toledo*
Warren
Youngstown*
Zanesville
Butler
Pa.
.Wrie*
Franklin
Greensburg*
Homestead
Oil City*
Pittsburgh*
Wheeling*
W. Va.




19,470

105,608
55,819
434,237

882,652
238,156

96,795
16,034
17,901
7,012
18,772

22,506
12,611
179,139
17,407
70,627

10,760
13,676
44,310
4,107

10,162

4,711+
12,704
947,645
31,709

20,633
74,542
41,297
311,776
651,881
198,711
70,956
11,821
15,493
5,734
13,080
17,891
10,431
126,503
11,605
53,699
9,048
9,723
31,683
2,842
8,783
3,930
9,500
706,345
27,195

62,499
308,894
168,393
1,347,299
2,597,555
6 8 9 ,3 4 2

299,025
1+7,313
54,587

20,968

49,333
67,577
37,549
51+1,937

52,161

211,806
32,345
40,439

130,001

12,347

30,887

14,586

38,122
2,852,122

102,111

60,593
227,511

123,118
1,003',038
1,951,389
556,832
213,531
36,887
45,171
17,542

38.682
52,766
31,453
382,2.39
33.683
161.765
27,fi64
30,2.02
94,129
9,084
25,933
11,948
30,092
2,176,759
91,497

F o m F. R. 286-b
DEBITS BY BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER
(In thousands of dollars)
August
1941

T August
1940
|

1 3 months ended —
August 1941 August 1940

DISTRICT NO. 5 - RICHMOND
Washington
Baltimore*
Cumberland
Hagerstown
Asheville
Charlotte*
Durham
Greensboro
Raleigh*
Wilmington
Winston-Salem
Charleston
Columbia*
Greenville*
Spartanburg
Danville
Lynchburg
Newport News
Norfolk*
Portsmouth
Richmond*
Roanoke
Charleston
Huntington

D. C.
Md.
it
ti

N. C.
tt
ti
tt
it
it
ti

S. c.
tt
tt
tt

28,067
36,141+8
27 ,1+96
15,527
9,018

Va.
tt

16,761

it
it
tt
tt
tt
W.
it

347,1+99
1+99,706
10,351
11,833
18,026
89,9U
53,725
26,259
1+9,568
19,222 •
1+9,170

Va.

ll+,2ll+
7l+,798
6,937
202,956
3!+,925 '
61,188
21,351

268,453
365 ,968
9,042
9 ?092
14,752
60,299
38,815
19,448
37,033
11,561
41,891
19,112
28,420
18,935
11,114
7,311
13,065
13,931
50,357
5,839
155,626
28,729
50,415
17,684

1,059,218
l,59l+, 823
32,731*
35,892
53,121
276,700

95,770
2,715
40,865
23,734
76,943
44,758
9,917
28,734
4,471
220,151
17,597
3,158
16,808
1,133
15,962
1,884
28,161
8,483
201,199
4,750
30,66 6
11,580
5,958
43,868
30,553
87,083

380,951+
12,31+2
188,506

125,212
77,1+63

171,366

57,789
146,718
88,391
114,1+99
81,468
1+5,651
29,999
52,659
l+l+»l+05
226,91+7
20,824

593,020
104,134
190,51+0
63,775

865,277
1,170,309
27,903
29,084
40,937
188,915
101,069
60,337
135,170
34,972
124,877
60,800
86,622
56,182
31,293
22,548
43,089
39,909
161,497
15,560
460,389
85,388
156,166
53,242

DISTRICT NO. 6 - ATLANTA
Birmingham*
Dothan
Llobile*
Montgomery*
Jacksonville*
Lliani
Pensacola*
Tanpa*
Albany
Atlanta*
Augusta*
Brunswick
Columbus
Elberton
IIaeon*
Nevman
Savannah*
Valdosta
New Orleans*
Hattiesburg
Jackson
Meridian
Vicksburg*
Chattanooga*
Knoxville*
Nashville*




Ala.
it
tt
tt

Fla.
tt
tt
ti

Ga.
ti
n
tt
tt
ti
tt
ti
tt
tt

La.
Miss.
tt
tt
tt

Tenn.
tt
tt

128,569
l+,725
65,550
28,667
104,331
51,5*a
13,1*95

38,893
7,1+04
231,089
25,227
3,393
24,891 ■
'
1,370
25,785 •
2,907
39,055

10,296

283,159

10,164

3U.931
19,397
7,187
58,441

38,158
110,913

81,152
316,271
167,1+78
38,641
119,515
21,211
846,357

77,162
10,299

73,274

4,103
73,151+

8,501

114,778

19,188
833,699
29,118
99,812

53,605
23,059
175,317
115,517
337,291+

281,397

7,661
125,811
65,351
229,161
142,021

30,010
88,264
14,157
659,548
53>335
8,997
48,201
3,348
45,685
5,395
85,099
15,228
617,451
13,859
86,222
36,254
20,122
133,056
92,649
252,604

Form F.R. 286-c
DEBITS BI BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER
(in thousands of do]Liars)
3 months ended —
August
August
August
1941 August 1940
1940
1941
DISTRICT UO. 7 - CHICAGO
37,716
Aurora
12,265
1+6,061
111 .
15,511+
t
i
38,460
Bloomington*
1+3,020
1U ,328
12,843
15,122
45,316
Champaign-Urbana
16,2614.
1+9,655
tt
2,812,224
8,616,743
Chicago*
11,151,065
3,700,595
it
Danville
9,654
30,559
12,570
39,317
57,194
Decatur*
18,421
78,157
25,191
it
25,171
8,540
31,032
Elgin
9,9b2
tt
28,066
8,940
3l+,l+03
Mo3±ne
11,155
it
184,866
Peoria*
56,137
80,556
239,055
85,961
120,281+
Rockford*
27,885
38,61+5
80,626
26,261
Springfield
89*27U
28,755
32,220
1+3,166
Fort Wayne*
Ind.
100,533
129,733
tt
56,984
18,760
Gary
70,501
22,776
tt
28,241
9,271
Hammond
11 ,01+0
35,507
tt
649,138
260,768
Indianapolis*
203,151
332,319
tt
130,344
41,187
165,678
South Bend*
50,51+3
tt
74,579
23,877
Terre Haute
90,222
29,21+5
75,047
Iowa
25,316
Cedar Rapids*
3i+,292
98,577
tt
18,602
6,512
Clinton
22,507
7,1+89
tt
21,116
68,839
Davenport*
26,1+01+
79,807
tt
91,896
278,372
Des Heines*
102,1+1+2
311,395
ti
9,568
30,171
Dubuque*
36,912
12,029
it
30,025
9,569
Mason City
30,037
12,651+
ti
10,564
Muscatine
3,951
1+,36o
13.076
it
122,088
41,863
Sioux City*
51,1+87
153,191
it
58,265
19,600
Waterloo*
71,013
2i+,l+63
12,247
Mich.
Adrian
4,109
5,250
16,373
tt
38,723
13,320
Battle Creek
19,880
55,117
ti
36,086
11,864
Bay City*
1+5,285
15,123
tt
2,872,515
Detroit*
930,883
1+,300,523
1,339,803
n
83,340
Flint*
27,967
33,61+6
106,961
tt
59,836
171,249
75,61+1
Grand Rapids*
218,951+
tt
45,667
15,238
J ackson
21 ,321+
62,61+5
tt
75,048
25,054
Kalamazoo*
92,763
30,1+93
tt
24,958
73,869
Lansing*
95,771+
29,673
tt
74,255
24,674
Saginaw
9h,3lk
29,993
48,958
16,999
Wis.
Green Boy
60,852
20,31+2
ti
6,838
21,334
28,1+01
Manitowoc
9,192
ti
3^2,700
806,141
255,680
1,020,61+2
Milwaukee*
tt
26,784
8,957
Oshkosh
3^,236
11,255
n
55,085
Sheboygan
'16,751
2l+,265
72,119
ii

ii

ii
ii

DISTRICT UO.. 8 - ST. LOUIS
Ark.
El Dorado
tt
Fort Smith
tt
Helena
tt
Little Rock*
n
Pine Bluff
tt
Texarkana
(See also Tex.)
East St, Louis & Nat’l
Stock Yards
111.
tt
Quincy
Ind.
Evansville*
Louisville*
Ky.
ti
Owensboro
Greenville
Miss.
St. LoxJis*
Mo.
tt
Sedalia
tt
Springfield
Tenn.
Menphis*



5,923
li+,810
1,1+07
1+9,61+5
7,090

5,339
11,672
1,170
33,997
6,296

19,051+
1+2,783
l+,597
152,855
2i+,l55

16,226
33,699
3,871
108,705
20,437

3,^03

3,030

10)261

9,002

57,686
10,771+
1+2,206
232,727

40,928
8,733
31,993
155,143
6,072
4,285
548,980
2,155
15,553
115,099

.168,01+9
33,229
131,251+
71+1+,901
19,707
16,351+
2,27l+, 300
7,631
62,935
526,150

123,922
27,054
100,083
495,653
18,081

6,670
5,652
683,1+20
2,591

20,362
150,009

12,638
1,794,342

6,368
48,394
365,756

Form F.R. 286-d
DEBITS BX BANKS IN EACH REPORTING CENTER
(In thousands of dollars)
August
194-1

August
1940

3 months ended —
I
August 1941 [August 1940

DISTRICT NO. 9 - MINNEAPOLIS
Duluth*
Minneapolis*
Red Wing
St, Paul*
South St, Paul
Winona
Billings*
Helena*
Dickinson
Fargo*
Grand Forks*
James'tovm
Minot
Aberdeen*
Sioux Falls
La Crosse
Superior*

Minn*
tt
it
tt
it
tt

Mont.
tt

N. D.
tt
tt
tt
tt

S. D.
tt

Wis.
tt

66,909

49,453
372,072
2,043
170,677
25,175
5,673
12,097

193,620

1,279
19,370
5,490
1,798
4,427
5,625
18,266
9,592
5,038

1,255,615
7,302
598,537
100,682
20,845
39,532
58,626
4,932
75,576
18,557
6,707
16,820
19,707
75,620
34,647
20,628

14,083
210,073
3,770

13,670
162,750

4l,6l4
596,175

20,656

16,923
2,907
12,968
2,696
16,023
3,256
3,556
17,143
46,000
9,273
321,900
27,683
2,754
28,851
148,074
16,786
25,116
12,453

1)1+5,794

2,400
207,871+
32,339
7,187
13,815
11,815

1,906
25,1+12
6,427

2,166
6,209

7,112
. 25,270
11,305

7,168

11,636

153,673
1,068,624
6,274
490,806
78,030
18,535
34,157

37,666
3,796
60,314
15,314
5,496
12,618
16,859
54,870
28,881
15,528

DISTRICT NO. 10 - KANSAS CITI
Colorado Springs*
Denver*
Grand Junction
Pueblo*
Atchison
Hutchinson
Independence
Kansas City*
Lawrence
Pittsburg
Topeka*
Wichita*
Joplin*
Kansas City*
St, Joseph*
Fremont
Lincoln
Omaha*
Albuquerque*
Bartlesville*
Enid
Guthrie
Muskogee*
Oklahoma City*
Okmulgee
Tulsa*
Casper
Cheyenne




Colo.
tt
tt
tt

Kans.
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
ti
it
M o.
ti
tt

Neb.
tt
tt

N. M.
^kla.
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt

Wyo.
tt

3,634
19,426
3,1+17
21,433

3,843
4,901
22,306

73,530

11,021
408,483
32,732
3,720

29,211
191,305
22,627
31,972
15,560

3,621

11,006

53,221
11,335

51,027
10,130
66,369
12,453
13,?35
67,704
219,087'
32,911
1,248,165
98,040

10,661
00,801
553,929

66,132

1,560

1,300

94,712
47,735
4,926

9,588
109,694
2,325
157,991
7,064

6,855
87,181

343,023

10,615

28,139

2,261

0,030

129,505
6,787
8,494

479,866

22,093
3l+,007

41,138
468,623
10,729
44,621
9,679
40,857
8,374
54,188
11,432
11,030
59,307
142,765
27,796
997,252
81,254
8,437
87,704
443,816
50,336
79,725
39,484
4,178
21,128
276,189
7,622
400,720
19,183

26,312

Fora F. R. 286-e
DEBITS BT BANKS HI EACH REPORTING CENTER
(in thousands of dollars)
August
1941
DISTRICT HO. 11 - DALLAS
Ariz.
Tucson*
JLicl*
Shreveport*
Roswell
H. M.
Abilene
Tex#
tt
Austin*
It
Beaunont*
It
Corsicana
tt
Dallas*
tt
El Paso*
tt
Fort Worth*
tt
Galveston
tt
Houston*
tt
Port Arthur
tf
San. Antonio
tt
Texarkana*
(See also Ark.)
tt
Tyler
tt
Waco*
tt
Wichita Falls

August
1940

3ll+,l+00
10,9UO
07,953

10,329
41.152
3,829
7.885
34,543
21,835
3,136
227,847
26,218
74,594
23,416
230,152
9,890
70,021

5,539
12,666
l7,i4-96
20,1+59

3.886
10,853
13,561
15.153

12,92k
30,399
I;,621
n,la3
37,50?
30,5lk
3,673
319,332

38,729
90,533

30,258

3
months ended —
August 1941jAugust1940

U2,511
152,095
13,779
37,101

34.020
128,664

106,971
92,393
11,236
961,21+3

101,061

115,01*5

296,221

91,777
9147,553

32,663

271,507

13.020
23,313
67,963
8,789
710,583
79,735
235,238
73,949
704,177
28,6l6
215,314

16,1+75

11,513
32,863

1+9,395

38,636

60,613

in,199

1+0 ,14.01

DISTRICT NO. 12 - SAM FRAHCI5C0
Phoenix
Bakersfield
Berkeley
Fresno*
Long Beach*
Los Angeles*
Oakland*
Pasadena*
Sacramento*
Sriti Bernardino
San Diego*
San Francisco*
San Jose
Santa Barbara
Stockton*
Boise* ~
Reno*
Eugene
Portland*
Salem
Ogden*
Salt Lake City*
BelHnghom
Everett
Seattle*
Spokane*
Tacoma*
Walla Walla
Yakina*

Ariz.
Calif.
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
it
it
tt
tt
Idaho
Kev.
Ore.
tt
tt
Utah
tt
Wash.
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt

Mote*.




51,915
20,1+65
37,132
39,310

52,921

l,09l+, 31+6

152,296

29,121+
150,391
16,751
90,338
972 ,ol6
3l+,271
12,115
25 ,201+
22,91+7
15,771
ll+,256
230,1+00

22,233
22,900

3>+,053
10,237

12,163
320,536
6l,926
61,099
10,1+01+
17,1+72

126,999
37,444
160,060
55,382
16,838
65,679
32,769
106,370
30,499
90,151
29,807
12k,9k9
38,023
118,845
163,01+6
861,789
3 ,270,606 2,659,996
307,613
101,109
14+3,509
77,317
25,732
91,91+0
445,900
175,643
1+03,307
37,632
12,210
50,307
156,157
53,713
27l+,275
778,633
2,353,379
2,923,253
73,900
25,599
9l+,599
32,952
11,010
37,609
62,076
20,512 ,
76,139
59,340
20,763
67 ,1+00
44,304
15,736
1+5,961+
27,306
9,551
39,092
501,525
167,617
67I+,736
53,498
13,313
62,156
49,182
19,904
63,335
212,655
69,929
21+3,911+
23,256
7,901
23,773
27,428
31+,oi+3
9,113
643,013
218,767
913,611
165,300
54,838
131,51+1+
123,041
41,550
173 ,391+
•
23,060
8,169
29,253
42,941
14,952
1+7,720

Revised 'figures: ^bilene, Tsxas: June 13,259. July 12,1429,