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Most blatant of the district's toughs was balding, broad-shouldered Paulie Muller, 38, head of the "Black Gang" and "King of Sankt Pauli." Flanked by his muscle man, a hulking waiter known as "Hans the Swine," and tailed by such hangers-on as "Boxer Fred," "Emil the Bull" and "Gambler Heini," Muller cut a wide swath along the Raper, intimidating bar owners and roughing up anyone who challenged him. But last October Paulie Muller met his nemesis in the form of a camel's-hair coat...
...brand-new and the proud property of a nightclub waiter named Heinz ("Harry the Ox") Hopp. When Muller expropriated the coat for himself, Hopp got hopping mad, pulled a gun on Paulie and was rewarded for his temerity with a beating that put him in the hospital for a month. It was enough to turn Harry the Ox into Harry the Fink: he provided the police with sufficient evidence against Muller and the Black Gang to bring them to trial. Last week a motley audience of shills, pimps, whores, strippers and bullyboys gathered in Hamburg's dingy criminal court...
...Muller Sees No Preference...
...Department of Buildings and Grounds, Assistant Director Henry J. Muller said that no preference was given either way. "We don't ask about color, we just want to know what the man's qualifications are," Muller said. "We don't have preferential treatment for Negroes because we've never had the opposite. If you have a guilty conscience, preferential treatment may be all right...
...Muller said that manual laborers were referred to Buildings and Grounds either through employment offices or because they were acquainted with someone on the work force. In most instances, he said, the foreman of the crew involved made the hiring decisions. Hiring for the staff of the department is the responsibility of the director, Cecil A. Roberts...