The modification of B , to eliminate the ghost at alp = 0 i s investigated, The J1JZJ3 leading three-particle vertex in B , i s calculated. Using this form, it i s shown that no finite number of t e r m modification of B, without trajectory depression satisfies consistent factorization in all multipion anlplitudes. Allowing trajectory depression, although daughter levels still presumably do not factorize, a solution i s found in which (a) all leading trajectories factorize, (b) a r e nondegenerate, and (c) the ppp vertex need not be zero. We believe this to be the suitable generalization of the Lovelace 4 -r amplitude. For Voi: the double sum degenerates to a single term with b, =J,, B= J, + J, -a, and we obtain J t J +J3-ol-B-y J J J (-1/21 "' ; '= n!g!y!(J,ay)!(J,a -p)!(J3py)! 'Factorizing this form into contributions from each of the four vertices of Fig. 3, we obtain Eq. (2).