Show I WEST RECORDS BUSINESS GAIN BAlM GAINS S SAN N FRANCISCO May 8 tf vi P Evi- Evi dence heartening to bus business in though unspectacular In character continues to o pile up to prove that general Jeneral commercial com mercial industrial and financial activity activity ac- ac is gain gaining in swifter momentum In n the far west Toda Today's s testimony deals with the total otal volume of business transactions o settled b by drawing checks cheeks on banks These payments rose to the highest monthly total of oC 3 3 1 years in m April Bank checks paid worth soPi of f bills in the 30 0 chief busi business ness ness centers nt of th the i v n far western states states' last month the Federal Reserve Reserve Re Re- serve Bank of San Francisco l report ed d. d It It was necessary to dig through the figures back to December 1931 to find a higher figure These che cheek check k payments or bank debits bettered the March to total l of by a little more than one per cent This gain gam is more significant than the figure indicates because the usual seasonal swing is about that much in the other tion |